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I decided I should start a dedicated sketch book, as opposed to a receptacle for random scribble and doodles.
I’m far too tight to buy one so I made one out of card, duct tape, twine and Daler Rowney smooth heavyweight paper.
It’s A5 size
I’m not normally a big fan of rules but there are some things I want to avoid and some I want to encourage, so I am imposing 3 strict rules on this sketch book.
1. Never abandon a drawing.
Even if I badly mess up, or make a horrible mistake, or otherwise hate the drawing, I must work through it.2. Every drawing must have purpose.
This is to avoid random scrawlings. I can use any old bit of paper for that.3.
Consider the whole page.
To avoid chaos.Here are the first 2 pages.
Thoughts and comments most welcome
good rules
I never see the point of random scribbles that don’t have much thought put into them – fast loose unfinished scribbles with thought behind are fine.Over the years I’ve learned to push through the ‘oh this is terrible‘ stage by mixing media to enable me to push the drawing/painting around and it’s well worth doing
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Over the years I’ve learned to push through the ‘oh this is [I]terrible[/I]‘ stage by mixing media to enable me to push the drawing/painting around and it’s well worth doing
Thanks. I’ll keep that in mind.
Today I learned that this paper can take some water, but not too much, and I got more practice with a water brush, including slopping some ink arond.
Looks great! Thanks for sharing and I hope you continue to do so.
I’m a fan of duct tape creations
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