ILLU5040 - Sketchbooks

Artist's Sketchbooks

Everything an artist publishes is curated and is only the tip of the iceberg, sketchbooks are what's under the water.

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Artists use their sketchbooks for a plethora of uses dependent on their intended outcome for their sketchbook. Sketchbooks can be non-comital spaces to play and explore, with the intent that few people other that its creator will see it.

Sketchbooks can be used to refine ideas, a place for thumbnail sketches and targeted study-works. Personal works are sometimes explored through an artist's sketchbook, these works can be dramatically different from their professional works, like their sketchbook is a place to relax.

Sketchbooks may also be used in a more academic approach, featuring annotations alongside visual elements to explain and examine content. Exploring techniques and other artists' work in a sketchbook can be useful to improve one's own ability and understanding.

Ultimately, they can be anything an artist wants them to be, from a beautiful work of art in of itself, to a rough mess of disjointed sketches and half-finished pieces. However people generally don't advertise the latter reality of sketchbooks.