A great life-hack for starving artists! Make a sketchbook 12 times cheaper than some you might buy! After which I spend entirely too much time introducing my sketchbook stack . . . lol the next one will be shorter :)
Loved your video! Listened to it with Wes. Fun presentation, great suggestions for sketchbooks. It's something I love to do, too! (Minus the binding part . . . I just use a clipboard . . . )
Clipboards work great too, and you don't have to worry about tearing up your sketchbook if you want to move drawings around for reference. I do that oftentimes when I'm trying to design something specific and need the freedom to shuffle paper. However, I find myself more motivated to sketch when I can see my progress in a bound book. It's also nice to have that so I can look back at my old nasty drawings and see my progress, kind of like a journal. To each his own, though! The clipboard method definitley seems to work for you, you have fantastic stuff! Thank you for listening and commenting!
okay Josh....how the heck do you get your sketchbooks to NOT fall apart? I got a ream of paper bound one time and the pages started falling out almost immediately!
Hi Wes! I totally should have mentioned, over the sketchbook I have two layers of plastic- usually one colored vinyl (to create a hard back) and one clear (the clear plastic available at Cougar Creations holds together really nice). Then I put whatever personalization I want between them, usually taped to one or the other. On the front counter at cougar creations they have these little books of plastic choices to flip through, they're only ~30 cents a piece. Binding them this was I have never had one fall apart
Loved your video! Listened to it with Wes. Fun presentation, great suggestions for sketchbooks. It's something I love to do, too! (Minus the binding part . . . I just use a clipboard . . . )
ReplyDeleteClipboards work great too, and you don't have to worry about tearing up your sketchbook if you want to move drawings around for reference. I do that oftentimes when I'm trying to design something specific and need the freedom to shuffle paper. However, I find myself more motivated to sketch when I can see my progress in a bound book. It's also nice to have that so I can look back at my old nasty drawings and see my progress, kind of like a journal. To each his own, though! The clipboard method definitley seems to work for you, you have fantastic stuff! Thank you for listening and commenting!
Deleteokay Josh....how the heck do you get your sketchbooks to NOT fall apart? I got a ream of paper bound one time and the pages started falling out almost immediately!
ReplyDeleteHi Wes! I totally should have mentioned, over the sketchbook I have two layers of plastic- usually one colored vinyl (to create a hard back) and one clear (the clear plastic available at Cougar Creations holds together really nice). Then I put whatever personalization I want between them, usually taped to one or the other. On the front counter at cougar creations they have these little books of plastic choices to flip through, they're only ~30 cents a piece. Binding them this was I have never had one fall apart
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