My Very First Sketchbook

Welcome to Draw Tip Tuesday!

Upon request, today I am sharing my very first sketchbook! Not from when I was a kid or teenager, but the sketchbook that eventually initiated my sketchbook practice, as it is now.
Even though I don't love looking at these very first pages, I think it's valuable to show them, because it illustrates how artists develop, grow, change course, and find their style throughout the year and through their practice.

In this sketchbook that I'm showing you, I was exploring the idea of illustrating children's books. I enjoyed developing characters at the time, and coming up with story lines. I did also sort of journal about my day, by drawing myself (as kind of a character or comic book figure) in the situation I was in that day, from imagination.

If I hadn't discovered that the sketchbook itself could be my form of art (instead of a stage between ideas and actual projects outside the sketchbook), I don't know where I would be now, creatively. I might have chosen the path of graphic novels, maybe I would have tried to get into the children's books illustration world... who knows.
Anyway, I am so happy where I am now, because my sketchbook practice fits me, and is such an important part of my life. I wouldn't want to miss it and I wish for everybody to experience the daily joy of it!

Sketchpad shown in this video:
-Canson XL sketchpad A5, 90 grams

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