The Importance of Sketchbooks

"Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a [..] vocabulary because it is an instant personal declaration of what is important." Betty Goodwin. 

More and more I am realising the importance of an illustrator's sketchbook. It is a window into their life and has a direct correlation with their finished work. 

Here are a few of my sketches that I have done over the past few weeks of the Visual Language module. I am really enjoying working with a range of media and trying out different approaches to portray faces, objects and people.

I am finding that the more you draw, the more you develop your own unique voice and approach. This is what will set you apart in the future from other illustrators as you have invested into and evaluated your own practice.

A sketchbook is a visual diary where you think, tell jokes, plan, inquire, play, be serious and have fun with.

In these drawings I have particularly focused on using ink and pushing my skills of this media. Quink ink is still a reasonably new media to me so I've been having a lot of fun testing it. A few of these tests are documented here. 

"If drawing is the best way of establishing what is important to us visually then it must go some way towards recording what it important to us internally." Lizzie Stewart

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