Sketchbooks at the Ready

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 8:16 am

Tim wrote:"None of the above."

Regular, run-of-the-mill, 8.5x11" loose-leaf computer printer paper, baby!

wooohoo! let's hear it for printer paper!

MechaByrd · Post by **MechaByrd** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 9:37 am

I am insane.

The sketchbook I want does not exist. However, I have discovered a means to reduce the number of notebooks I carry from 4 to 3. I'll keep my journal and my [engineering] design notebooks in one garden-variety clothbound sewn composition notebook. One will be worked from the reverse side, upside down from the normal. This means I will be rebinding the two together, for the sake of convenience [my mind is not well]. I'll just doodle in the cheapest wirebound sketchpad that I have: a) So I can easily tear out pages and post strange things on people's doors, and b) on the whole, my artwork has not reached the point of being saved for posterity.

EDIT: But I still need the pocket notebook. There are these neat little composition notebooks 3.5X4.5 in, that I found at WalMart. The advantage over spiral pads is that they are more comfortable in the pocket and don't hang up on things. I need one of these just so I don't die, b/c I forget everything. I write down everything from birthdays to reminders to eat, the negligence of either could lead to my demise. Also, a loop of duct tape always keeps a pen with that notebook, b/c I can never find one when I need to jot something down.

Cheebs · Post by **Cheebs** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:29 am

Mine's an 8 1/2 by 11 Roaring Springs spiral-bound sketchbook, but the pages will come out with a straight edge and there's a set of three pockets in the front to keep the pages you pulled out in. Quite nice for my needs.

Sippan · Post by **Sippan** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 12:18 pm

Only spiral will do. Otherwise you can't access the whole page... The only downside is that the spirals cut into your hands and prevent you from drawing, on every other page. But you can always turn the notebook upside down every time you flip a page, to fix that problem.

Luprand · Post by **Luprand** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 12:30 pm

This is kinda sad for me ... I have three active sketchbooks at the moment in various stages of use, plus two full ones, plus something like six 3"x5" pads that I filled with cartoons when I was younger. And another sketchbook waiting in the wings.

The first full one was clothbound and about 4"x7" or some odd measurement like that; second was spiralbound, but with perforated pages and a pocket for the pages that fell out. And now I have two spiralbounds and a hardbound that I alternate between; the hardbound is black with duct tape holding the binding together. The one spiralbound is what I use for comic episodes; I rip the pages out as I scan them and store them in something or another.

And there's still the other hardbound waiting in the wings.

--Sij

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 2:52 pm

YarpsDat wrote:For drawing I use regular, A4 printer paper, I put into a clipboard.
But for carry-around sketchbook I use...
regular, A4 printer paper, folded three times (that makes it A7?)
Then it's small enough to fit in palm, or any pocket, and sturdy enough to write on.
When all the available surfaces get covered with sketches, I unfold it, and refold in a different way. When it's all full, I add it to my ever groving pile of folded A4 pages, and take a new blank page to make anew sketchbook.

Price: less than a cent a piece. ^_^

Same as he.

YarpsDat · Post by **YarpsDat** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 7:39 am

must be european thing.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 7:52 am

It's an eastern block thing, you capitalist pigs!

Luprand · Post by **Luprand** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 10:19 am

Oink.

:o3

--Sij

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 10:57 am

Mostly, I draw in my notebooks for my various classes. (I know! I know!). But I do keep a sketch book that I've been working on full of Exalted sketches. I mean....sketches for Exalted, the RPG. Not that my sketches are exalted.
I also have this unfortunate habit of drawing on printer paper. It's hard to break out of. For anything really detailed though, I use bristol board.

Ian the Scribe · Post by **Ian the Scribe** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 4:07 pm

I use plain ol' printer paper, with a letter-sized clipboard to hold the pages. I like the hard surface and the portability, plus I can carry it around at work

War · Post by **War** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 4:17 pm

I draw with the blood of my victims on their dried and stretched skins.

Dan Nicholls · Post by **Dan Nicholls** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 6:52 pm

Hardbound run-of-the-mill, nifty black-covered, 2 gazillion paged monstrosity that I've only used a third of in 4 years. So, yeah, computer paper lots of the time...

ZOMBIE USER 18017 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 18017** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 12:35 pm

I draw on binder paper because sketching on lineless paper irritates me, for some strange reason. Then I use a lightbox to trace the drawing onto printer paper.

Cheap, but it takes more time than necessary.

MariaAndMichelle · Post by **MariaAndMichelle** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 4:34 pm

Michelle does 'Shonen-Ai Kudasai!' in a hardbound sketchbook, but all of her others are spiral. It's just so much easier to get a the paper that way. And also, there's never the problem of the entire chunk of paper falling out all at once because your hardbound sketchbook sucks. (Which has just recently happened to the SAK book. It's kind of sad, really. It was almost full and everything.

)

Gage Kronos · Post by **Gage Kronos** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 7:30 pm

Hee hee...that's the cutest title for a web comic. I want to read your archives but the "first comic" arrow gives me a 404 error...

Grabmygoblin · Post by **Grabmygoblin** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 7:48 pm

Gage Kronos wrote:Hee hee...that's the cutest title for a web comic. I want to read your archives but the "first comic" arrow gives me a 404 error...

hmm, m&m, it seems you have a "dec 95-54" in your big calendar as your first strip http://kudasai.keenspace.com/archive.htm
*starts reading strip* heh, exotic fruit...

MariaAndMichelle · Post by **MariaAndMichelle** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 7:30 am

We know, and we have no fscking clue why it's there. Worse still, we have no idea how to get rid of it.

Oh, and Gage Kronos, here's the actual first strip. Or filler, as it were. (We probably ought to get rid of that...) Enjoy!

Kevin Wolf · Post by **Kevin Wolf** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 1:57 pm

I'm currently using a big stack of printer paper for a sketchbook. Since my computer is down, I don't have anything else to use it for.

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 5:22 pm

I use lined paper in a spiral notebook... ha ha ha ha haaaaa!

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