Question of the month: Show your sketchbook!
I keep several different notebooks going at any one time: one for jewelry, one for other mixed media art, and one that’s small enough to travel with me. I’ve also got files and files and files of pictures, but that’s a whole other matter! I have no drawing skills at all, so a notebook is less intimidating to me than a real sketchbook would be. I indicate colors only by spelling it out, or occasionally taping a swatch into the notebook. I’m not proud of them, but there they are!
Would you send me a shot of your notebooks or files? I’ll post them here if you’re brave enough to take the challenge. Tell us a little about how you work, or let the picture speak for itself! You can even send in a shot of a notebook page and a shot of the resulting artwork! That would be really cool if you did that :-)
Send all entries to cyndi@b5media.com and use the subject line “Jewelry Sketchbook”. I’ll post them as they come in, with links you your site or blog. Come on, I showed you my lousy drawings…show me yours?
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Apr 5, 2008 at 11:01 am
[…] Show your sketchbook! - Do you carry around a sketch book where you work out ideas before making them? If so Cyndi at Jewelry And Beading wants to see it! Share a photo of what you plan out your projects in. […]
Mathi
Apr 5, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Sketchbook, what an interesting idea. While my garden gets noted and plotted to the nth degree, I never even thought of treating my beadwork that way. Not that I don’t sketch, I do, and often…but my sketches are on envelopes, the back of my gardening pages, wherever I have paper. I only keep them until I finish the design I just sketched. I probably should get more organized!
Cyndi
Apr 6, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Well, only change your ways if they stop working for you! Maybe you don’t care about having the sketches organized, and that’s just fine…as long as it works for you :-) For me, there’s always more ideas than time to make them, so I like to jot them all down for later. Later doesn’t always arrive, but I know that I’m all set if the well runs dry some day!
Cindy
Apr 8, 2008 at 1:14 am
Cyndi, have you tried one of those multi section note books? I do beading, wire working, dream catchers, design and sew clothes and love to cook. I found a note book that has a section for each, plus a pocket in each divider. I put the misc. designs I doodle when the mood hits me and the book isnt with me. Just thought that I’d share that.
Cyndi
Apr 8, 2008 at 8:04 am
Yes! I love those :-) That’s actually what the two larger notebooks in the photo are, but each has only two sections. One section is for chaotic notes and the other is for working them out a bit! The teeny book in the picture is the one I travel around with.
Cyndi
Apr 8, 2008 at 8:05 am
Oh, I should have mentioned…one of the large notebooks is for jewelry and the other is for mixed media art of all other types :-)
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