This is a leather bound sketchbook I made maybe 10 years ago.
I sewed all the signatures together and glued it into the leather cover.
Some of the pages were poor quality white sketch paper torn from a pad, some were tissue paper and some brown paper with fold out pages
I remembered making it and pulled it out to try to fill but the paper is ALL of such poor quality I'd rather not bother. So this is a lesson in buying and using the best quality art supplies you can afford.
And then there is the idea of attaching sketches, images, snippets whatever to those pages. I think paper is one of the most critical materials in terms of choosing quality...
ReplyDeleteI used some interesting ideas like fold out pages and thin paper but bad decisions on the actual paper itself. Now I do use vellum instead of tracing paper and if I wanted toned paper I wouldn't use brown paper.
DeleteYay vellum! I've been using mine to practice my new brush lettering!
ReplyDeleteThat was actually tracing paper (way back then) but now I am all about vellum.
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