what do you think are the muses that show up most often in steve's sketchbook?
what a fun question, ev! thank you for asking. 😈✨
here's what i think:
nyc. he's a brooklyn lad, alright. in pen and marker. on a moleskin he carries around that has cracks in its spine.
people on transit/out and about in the city. HONY but like hands of new york. jackets. forgotten socks by the condo constructions. the piers at golden hour. central park as a möbius strip. the dude in a duck costume on the B. yunno. in pencil, gouache, cheap monochromatic oils. on cheap newsprint. A3 paper, canvases (oft hung in museums, preserved when steve's other art wasn't. he has conflicting feelings about it after coming out of the ice, but still draws them.)
old architecture. chalk. ballpoint. moleskins. coasters.
politics/current events. he's a bitchy, political cartoonist of an american icon, alright. in marker and digital. on his anonymous mildly popular instagram and the occasional publication.
new foods/inventions. kinda blurry photographs paperclips to moleskins. in pencil and soft pastel.
his own teammates. he's with them almost every day. he has an almost eidetic memory. he definitely draws scenes from the mansion/tower/quinjet/battles, moments in the aftermaths where they're digging through rubble with their bare bloodied hands, where they're hugging each other just to feel something alive, where they're laughing holding a drink. in pencil. on napkins, canvases, as gifts, rarely in museums but often in places of honor (in tony's homes, in his teams'.)
pursuant to that: his own nightmares. war. viscera. the good things in the past; a cooking pot his grandma passed down filled with empty shotgun shells. a finger on a grenade, not attached to a hand. in ink, digital, magazine cut outs, media far removed from the inspiration. most often controversially placed in museums and war retrospectives, saved by some of his wwii unit.
fantasy and sci fi media. yes, he's a fanart lad. tolkien and ursula k le guin and hajime yatate and neon yang, etc. pen, gouache, digital. posted on his official social media accounts bc he's shameless. sometimes asked to do covers for up and coming writers. sometimes agrees.
in a similar vein, comics! comics inspired by comics :))
hands in general. he(thinks he)'s a simple man. sketches, rarely soft pastels. on small notebooks, official documents.
his lovers. in repose, in sheets, generally faceless. more about the planes of their bodies, the way they fill the space. in messy sketches and gouache or acrylic. often destroyed. (steve does not have complicated feelings about this. he does have a lot of feelings about this.)
queer artists/art. half dressed men. pride parades. (steve does have complicated feelings about this. he does have a lot of feelings about this.) pastel, chalk, chalk pastels. on vellum, small digital prints. occasionally temporarily in galleries and exhibitions on a complicated basis. steve likes to keep them.
statues. in black or red pen/ink/chalk. on tiny canvases or moleskin.
the iron man armor <33333 in acrylic, red or blue ballpoint. on napkins and moleskin.
i'll stop here bc this is long but please allow me to emphasize that steve is an artist and us artists always see the world with a little bit of romance: every moment could contain a muse, and every muse could contain a million moments, etc.
i think his hands itch for his shield just as much as they itch for his sketchbook.
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Prospect Park (c. 1934)
This is one of Cpt. Rogers' earliest rendition of Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York City. Many of Rogers' sketchbooks feature local scenes, such as this sketch, or even local residents. This particular drawing can be found deep within the sketchbook and is surrounded by numbers and other scribbles. The other half of the page has dark lines as if Rogers was trying to scribble out a drawing. That drawing is still undergoing restoration in our offices.
This newly recovered drawing has sustained numerous levels of damage due to poor preservation. Whether the poor preservation is from Rogers himself or thanks to his former neighbor's technique is up for debate. This sketchbook was found at the bottom of the stack with the covers nearly ripped off due to friction. With some examination, some dark stains on the cover, along with various pages, are from blood, as if from a bleeding nose.
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