Little Blue Sketchbook Tour

A look into a sketchbook

Hello Sketchbuds,

I wanted to get the ball rolling with some bonus posts I’ve been promising you all. I have a surplus of sketchbooks I’ve been meaning to share and what better place to do it then here?

Sketchbook Time!

This is a collection of pages from my small blue Handbook Sketchbook: a 3.5 x5.5 hardcover sketchbook with soft yet durable cream colored paper that takes paint pretty well. I personally love using this brand as the pages feel a little less daunting than stark white moleskine paper and the cover has such a wonderful handmade feel. The one big downside is that the texture of the paper makes it easy for graphite to smudge, so pencillers be wary and inkers rejoice.

If by any chance one of you readers works for a sketchbook company, I would love to review your products. *Wink*

Because I’m a leftie, I like to start start my sketchbook backwards to make it easier for my hand to not smudge everything. This book in particular starts backwards and is adorned with one of my Mermay stickers and a sticker from my good friend and show stopping tattoo artist, Becki Shu, whose old cat Pebble is in one of these pages. The book begins in 2021 and officially ends in 2023.

From live drawing whale watching in Cape Cod to starting doodles for this very substack, this sketchbook has seen it all!

Like many sketchbook keepers, I kept coming in and out of this sketchbook, escaping to other books or just taking breaks from drawing all together between weeks. Many of you know me for my sketches. I love to sketch, but even I go through humps where I didn’t want to draw anything. I credit this sketchbook for getting me out of my rut post pandemic.If you want to hear my little sketchbook rant, see some high quality scans with some fun context, and the full sketchbook pdf, become a Sketchbud!