Recent Sketchbook Pages
Added 2023-01-24 18:01:41 +0000 UTCOne of my New Year's resolutions is to work in my sketchbooks more intentionally and frequently!! I got this Leutrum 1917 sketchbook for Christmas, and it's HUGE. It's a 9x9, but the spreads are 18x9!! I really like working in it.
So far I've just used ink, copic markers, tombow markers, and posca markers on the pages. The copic markers do bleed to the other side of the paper, but I actually really like sketchbooks that bleed. It's very satisfying to me. I haven't tried anything with water just yet, but I have a feeling the paper wouldn't hold up well. The Posca markers already pushed this paper to the limit. I think colored pencil will be the next material I try on this paper.
So I actually sketch and draw traditionally A LOT. But usually I sketch on loose leaf paper and I don't always do a great job of taking care of the original. So this year I'm making it a big goal to always transfer or record my sketches in my actual sketchbook. Even if that means just taping a sketch onto the sketchbook pages. I've also been dating the pages which is very new to me! I'm hoping that this will be a project for all of 2023, and that at the end of the year I'll have a big collection of my thoughts and ideas to flip through.
ALSO my tactic for breaking into a new sketchbook worked! I was feeling very paralyzed to start in this book. I felt like the book was too nice and I was going to ruin it. SO I actually just put all of the stickers I've designed for my shop onto a few pages, to "ruin" it. This helped a lot and made me feel less intimidated to work in the book. I hope this is good advice?
