Sketchbook #1
So I am kind of afraid of sketchbooks. I like loose pieces of paper better. I’m always jealous of people who have beautiful sketchbooks. I’m afraid to mess up a nice looking book, and tend to collect empty, unused books on my shelves. So last August I decided to start making my own sketchbooks. I would number them. Starting with #1, I told myself that I must put something on at least one page every single day. It didn’t really work. At least not how I planned. I didn’t stick to doing it every day.
But the goal is that I would keep the practice of sketching up and one day, maybe at #75, I might have a really nice sketchbook worth showing people. I mean worth showing every single page.
So 9 months later, I finally finished my first book. I pulled some of my favorite pages to share here:
Now onto #2.
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Also, I used to be afraid to use pen, and now I kind of like it. The fact that what you put on the paper is just there used to make me nervous. But lately it feels kind of liberating.
I used to be terrified of marking up sketchbooks, especially Moleskine sketchbooks, but then I discovered Moleskine plain notebooks. They strike the perfect balance between preciousness (I don’t want to lose them, an ongoing problem with other, cheaper sketchbooks) and who-gives-a-rat’s-ass reckless abandon (pages are Bible paper thin, everything slops together from page to page, etc.). And like all Moleskines, they lay flat no matter what page you’re on. Very nice.
If nothing else, they’ve gotten me to draw again. I have a stack of Moleskine sketchbooks that I don’t want to mark up. Only the plain notebooks give me permission to draw.
That’s just me.