My Sketchbook- Purse Series

I was looking through my old sketchbooks today and came across this really intimate little series of pen and ink drawings that I that I did sometime around the mid 2000's. Some are more straightforward imaginings of coin purses, and others get downright bizarre. I thought they were interesting enough to scan and post here.

Sketchbook: Purse Series #1

Sketchbook: Purse Series #2

Sketchbook: Purse Series #3

Sketchbook: Purse Series #4

Sketchbook: Purse Series #5

Sketchbook: Purse Series #6

Sketchbook: Purse Series #7

Sketchbook: Purse Series #8

Sketchbook: Purse Series #9

Sketchbook: Purse Series #10

Drawings By John Franzen

And I thought MY work was obsessive...

About his work:

"Starting with a straight line, I draw each following sequence by copying the character of the previous. I concentrate on breathing and focus on drawing the successor. Again and once more. Again and again. In the process of drawing, my lines evolve into a kind of logarithmic pattern and layering, steered merely by aberrances and anomalies of human failure in contrast to the precision of a machine."

Robot Art: Harvey Moon's Drawing Machines

Another great video from The Creators Project. I personally know a few artists who work in this manner, but I don't think any of them have taken it quite this far.