Comparing my use of sketchbooks to practising illustrators...
Similarly to Scott Garrett, I use Daler Rowney and Moleskine
A6 hardback sketchbooks. I use these quite preciously; every page is a finished
drawing. I find them really useful when I know exactly what I want to draw and
how I want it to look. However there are plenty of reasons why I like these
sketchbooks: They’re small so I can take them with me when I go out, they’ve
got loads of pages in them so they take a while for me to fill them up and I
find it really satisfying to flick through a thick sketchbook of finished
drawings.
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| Scott Garret |
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| Scott Garrett |
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| My sketchbooks |
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| My sketchbooks |
I also recently started using A5 paperback sketchbooks by
Seawhite. These I find very liberating as they just feel much more disposable
and although I keep them all, I have no problem with making mistakes or filling
pages with scribbles and pen/paint tests etc. I use these sketchbooks for
preliminary sketches and designing textures which I then scan in. I suppose the
way I use these sketchbooks is similar to Tim Marrs’ sketchbooks we looked
through. Some pages are seemingly full of indecipherable nonsense whereas other
pages feel quite substantial and could be used as finished pieces. I also use
these sketchbooks when I’m studying something, for example, a double page
spread of whales I did whilst studying them (view below).
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| Tim Marrs A3 |
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| Tim Marrs A3 |
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| My sketchbook |
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| My sketchbook |
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| Ink tests. |
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| Messed up but didn't rip it out. |
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| Just turned the page and tried again. |
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| Whale study and notes. |
In future I’m going to challenge myself to use bigger
sketchbooks like A3 as I always work small and I liked how Tim Marrs had lots
of elements on each page in his A3 books. I think I will find it very
overwhelming to begin with but I would like to give it a go.
Below are just more from my sketchbooks...
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