I have thoroughly embraced sketchbooking and I am loving it! I want to put together a video of the pages as it’s nice to be able to talk about them but suffice to say, having never quite got the measure of regular sketching, I seem to have found my mojo with it and now can’t seem to stop.
These are the advantages are:
- I can make mistakes
- I can use up leftover paint (you always have to mix enough gouache)
- I can practise techniques I am not very good at
- I can try different media
- I can make practise sketches of things I might want to explore further at a later date
- I can get proportions wrong
- I can go off the page
- I can try compositions
- I can draw things that are nothing to do with birds
- It’s a visual record of a particular time, event, film, or journey
It’s my birthday coming up and I am hoping that my request for a new sketchbook will have been acknowledged, in which case I feel the need to finish my current one before I start that one. Quite a challenge but I’ll give it a go.
Meanwhile I have been doing some other art: fiddling with Illustrator, and more gouache.
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