-Can't stop, won't stop.
Keeping a sketchbook is one of the best things an artist can do. Every artist should have a wizard-sized library of filled sketchbooks with post-it notes, loose papers, and clippings hanging out the sides... at least that's MY goal. Watercolor sketchbooks from the store are criminally overpriced and USUALLY not very well made. I made mine after collecting all of my "student-grade" pads of watercolor paper and watching 1.5 YouTube videos on bookmaking. I was never going to use those pads anyway after becoming a watercolor paper snob.
I've always sketched and doodled in my books and I've always desperately wanted a watercolor sketchbook but I could never justify the price tag until one day I did and it was a terrible product. The paper was more of a cardstock than actual watercolor paper and the binding didn't last very long while traveling in my bag of holding. I know I've made the comparison of making a DIY sketchbook to a Jedi making their lightsaber in a previous post, but I cannot describe the satisfaction that washes over me using these books in any better manner.
PLUS it fits in well with my tiny traveling art supply collection... for all my extensive traveling needs such as: moving from my dark arts cave to the living room or perhaps when I'm on the lamb desperately seeking refuge from my own tiny humans running amok on their summer tour of carnage and constant questions. I digress.
Maybe one day I'll make a guide on how I made mine, but if I'm being honest I'm not super duper like.... great.... at it yet. Don't get me wrong, they are STURDY... like when my dad got into woodworking and made his first chairs: VERY sturdy, but not winning beauty contests. SUPER high comfort stats though.
I'm hoping to keep this bit up, Instagram and Meta scraping their sites to train AI is a gross feeling and I really don't want to be part of that. I mean if my art is going to benefit a machine and I'm still 100% organic the trade-off isn't really fair. The least they could do is offer a bionic eye or pneumatic knees in exchange. Plus I have some time now that I've handed in all my artwork for the *REDACTED* I've been working on.
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