105: Reasons I’ve sucked at using sketchbooks.
or, why the heck don’t sketchbooks come with instructions.
📝 Here’s a note about how I suck at using sketchbooks. And what I decided to do about it.
How I sucked at using sketchbooks:
The sketchbook was so big that I needed to make space to use it.
The sketchbook was too heavy so I stoped taking it around.
The sketchbook didn’t jive with the pen I was using. (Because bleeding, smudging)
I get worried when I come to the end of a sketchbook that I will run out of pages and not have any pages to draw on. So I buy a new sketchbook and start on that right away.
I dedicate a sketchbook to a subject then lose interest in the subject! Or…
I can’t find the dedicated sketchbook
I use it to write random notes ore diagrams or doodles.
I used paper too thin for heavy painting
I used paper to thick for quick doodles.
I have no idea which sketchbook to use to draw something.
What I decided to do about it:
In the end I decided to reframe how I think of sketchbooks as sheets of paper that happen to be bound and definitely not a storage device. I draw in them when I need to but It’s what I turn those sketches into that’s valuable not the sketches themselves.
🦹🏽♂️📝 If you’re a Super-subscriber, you’ll get to see how I came to this decision using a 5-Step process.