Sketchbook poll!

[okojosan]

While chatting with merrycalliope about sketchbooks I got interested in how we view them.

Comments

[tuftears]

Meow! I is not for drawing on! D:

Anyway, usually I skip trying to get use out of the last few pages in the sketchbook and get a new sketchbook. ^_^

[rowyn]

I've tended to fill up my sketchbooks with thumbnails and studies for pictures. On the occassion that I finish a picture, it'll be redrawn on better loose paper/board. The only exception is my one 'good' sketchbook, which I've got mostly finished pictures in, or at least pictures I planned to finish (really, honest. c.c).

If my cat gets drawn on, I am totally blaming Okojosan. (The cat does have quite a bit of white space, now that I think of it .... )

[eregyrn]

I've never kept a sketchbook. Mentally, I just have never gotten the concept. I've always known it as something an artist is "supposed" to do, but that I've never felt the urge to do.

I almost never doodle. Oddly enough, when I doodle (while I'm on the phone or in a mtg or whatever), it's exclusively geometric shapes and patterns. I have never doodled little pics of actual things.

I do sketch in order to approach a drawing. And sometimes I'll complete some experimental sketches to decide exactly what to do, or figure out the flaws in what I plan to do. But I don't really draw/sketch unless I am sitting down with a very specific project in mind, and then, all of the sketching/drawing I do is in service of producing that particular project. I never doodle/sketch/draw with "nothing" in mind (or I guess, when I do... it's geometric shapes and patterns.)

[octantis]

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

[synnabar]

I do draw on the last few pages... if I haven't written notes on them first! Many of my older sketchbooks have lists of things (like names or quotes) and notes about stuff, too, that I added as I went along. Sometimes they were more interesting than the art ;D

[synnabar]

Also, I usually do not draw on the first few pages of a new sketchbook, out of habit. In the old days I'd put a bookplate (remember those? I had some with rainbows and unicorns XD), or do something elaborate (like a fancy initial), or tape or glue a neat picture I found, or cover the page(s) with stickers. Some of the spiral ones have calendar pages I made in Illustrator, then stuck in the spirals. Now my first few pages usually have reference material, cards, or things like that stuffed in them. I didn't like the idea of opening up the book and BAM, there's my artwork (although my very old sketchbooks, like my 4th-grade ones, had all sorts of narcissistic title pages with things like "The Great Stephanie Sketchbook" on them D: D: D:).

[rowyn]

I usually don't have a few pages left at the end ... they'll be in the middle somewhere. Often I draw from both ends of the sketchbook. I have no idea why.