I’m a big fan of talented designer Rob Jelinski, a great mentor and one of the most supportive people us newbies met online as we prepared our 2012 Sketchbook Projects. His tips on pulling together your next Sketchbook Project will be accurate, productive and fun. See the whole post on the Art House Co-Op’s website. (You’re participating in 2013, right?)
I looked at the post, and it seems to explain how to make (fake?) a “sketchbook” out of digitally manipulated photos, vector graphics etc.
Doesn’t that rather contradict the whole sketchbook idea?
That’s a great question. I understand your point.
But if you look at the Art House Co-op site ( http://www.arthousecoop.com/library ) you’ll see many many “sketchbooks” configured like the one in this post. Not all of them are actually drawings.
Also, re-covering and re-stitching the sketchbook that Art House sends you is a very widespread practice (see these sketchbooks as examples: http://arthousecoop.tumblr.com/post/25502298092/35-sweet-sketchbook-cover-patterns )
So while it may look like a “sketchbook” has to be more traditional drawings, lots of people use the book to do journaling, photos, collages, and tons of other media.
Hope this helps.
Journals and collages are original, spontaneous little works of art created on the spot.
Printing out photos, or digitally finished designs, binding them, and pretending that is a “sketchbook” is quite a different matter.
Thanks for your comments. That’s a perfectly understandable perspective. I appreciate you taking the time to leave your thoughts. I hope you’ll have a chance to look a the full range of things that people do for The Sketchbook Project. It’s really popular.