I’ve never been a sketchbook type of person. That is – I find it hard to have just one book for sketching, all my drawings are scattered because I tend to just draw on any sort of paper that’s around, no matter what it is.
When I had a job, I used to (quite unconsciously) scribble all over the site-maps and flowcharts until my boss told me that maybe I shouldn’t do that anymore, because these things go in the clients folder and the clients may see them and it doesn’t look very professional. Which is fair enough – I never was very professional. You see, I don’t run for sketchbooks; if I have a pen in my hand, your important documents are in danger.
But I always SOO wanted to keep a cool, little sketchbook – all ordered and perfectly imperfect – like all those other people in the blogs, on drawn.ca, with their moleskins ‘n’ such. How do they do it? I just don’t know how to be like that. So, I’ve come up with my own solution.
With years of drawings, strewn about the house, going to waste, I decided to give them a purpose. It’s simple, I just cut out different drawings, stick ‘em down into a little folded book and decorate with markers. Before you know it you have your very own artbook (so who needs a sketchbook). Each book tells a little tale, it’s non-sensically sensical, ever so fun and I just can’t stop making them.
From these artbooks many new ideas have started to grow. There has been a paradigm shift in Nonworkerland. I feel, exciting things are on the horizon – so stay tuned.
I have put a couple of these books up in our MadeIt shop.
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Kath cool idea I’m a molskin guy for ideas
But not too many drawings I keep losing them
Though and no go for the smaller soft cover type
But there’s nothing nicer than a fresh page of
A4 paper for a brainstorm
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