Landscape Sketchbook Tour
Can changing the size of your sketchbook make you braver?
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This month I’m thinking about the sketchbooks we choose. Here’s a look at how changing the size and dimensions of my sketchbook led to breakthroughs. There’s a tour of a landscape sketchbook and a focus on how it made me take more risk.
Staying on the same page
I usually use the same size Royal Talens sketchbook. I like the dimensions. It fits in my bag and is big enough to use for panels and interesting spreads. I have lots of these sketchbooks.
When I started my MA in Children’s Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art, the first module was observational drawing. We drew every day, all day for 12 weeks. It was then that I noticed that I always used the same dimensions of page and this was limiting my use of composition and ideas for sketchbook spreads.