Category: Graphic Design

I recently bought a sketchbook to draw in. I am so used to digit design that the idea of a sketchbook that contains a bunch of rough drafts and bad examples frustrates me. In used to making something polished, something that is done.

When I publish a website or sell a product at my job, it is completed and finished. I need to learn again what it is like to be ok with art if it isn’t done.

I’m thinking of stenciling “second rate drawings” or something similar on the front to remind myself that a sketchbook is just that- a collection of sketches and ideas- not the finished thing.

Pulling out the sketchbook and offing in my backpack, I grabbed a simple mechanical pencil and suddenly I was making art. No creative suite 6, no quad core processor or 24 inch screen. Just drawing, I kept thinking how I don’t want to draw on the first page… because then each time I open up the book, I’ll see my first sketch, badly drawn as thought out. On second thought, maybe I should draw the worst thing I can there as a way to push myself to be ok with imperfection and being in process.

Reading about making graffiti markers with ink refills, shoe shine ink bottles and brake cleaner, I was again blown away how with only a couple supplies, you can make cheap art.