Sketchbook Archives
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Every so often I go through a mini-crisis of how to use my sketchbooks. Should I just have one sketchbook for everything? Or should I have a variety of different sketchbooks and separate everything out (like one for a diary, one for each comic project, one to carry around for general nonsense coming out of my brain, one for work goals - the list goes on)? But even though I would love to be someone who can organise their life into separate books, I am not that person. Usually, my annual sketchbook crisis ends with me settling on the “one-sketchbook-for-everything-choice” (which ends up being a collection of short diary comics, scribbled thoughts & feelings, things I’ve collected and stuck in, post-it notes and lists I’ve made, and sometimes, if I’m lucky, a few polished art pieces).
Although I wish my sketchbooks were beautiful collections, with every page being an example of my best art and comics, I know that instead they are the important stuff that helps my art grow. If my art & stories were plants, my sketchbooks are the dirt, fertiliser, water and time waiting for the plant (or art/comics) to bloom. Does this metaphor kinda work? I hope this metaphor kinda works.
I’ve been meaning to upload my sketchbooks to my website for ages now, to share more of what my work looks like when it’s in progress, and I have finally done it! I’ve been enjoying (and only slightly cringing at) my trip down memory lane while scanning these highlights of my sketchbooks from 2016–2023.
2023 Sketchbooks
2022 Sketchbooks
2021 Sketchbooks
2020 Sketchbooks
2019 Sketchbooks
2018 Sketchbooks
2017 Sketchbooks
2016 Sketchbooks
