coelasquid:

ghostvomit:

kingcheddarxvii:

Some people draw nice, clean art in their sketchbooks. Some people work best when they’re churning out page after page of crap until one nice drawing emerges. One style may be more photogenic but neither is better than the other. The only thing holding you back is the idea that what you put in a sketchbook SHOULD look a certain way, when in reality sketchbooks exist so you can scribble, mess around with new things, and make art that’s less than your best! If you don’t want to “ruin” a nice sketchbook than just grab a stack of printer paper. Thank u for reading. Do your best kids. Go make some ugly sketchbooks

I once had an animation teacher tell me never to put anything finished in a sketchbook because it defeated the purpose of having the book in the first place. Back in College i didnt really believe him but honestly now I can see where he came from. A Sketchbook is for learning how you progress and form ideas into images, and putting finished work into your book can sort of break up that flow of fragmented progression, but its not a set rule obviously!

My sketchbooks are for real the ugliest thing because I do all my moderately nice art on the computer these days now that I basically always have a tablet PC on hand and my sketchbook is full of nothing but 100% thinking out loud garbage that looks like it came out of a hairbrush. Like, room schematics, floorplans, environment thumbnails that mean nothing to anyone but me, but they do their job and help me sort out all my business. I thought I lost one once at a restaurant for a few days until it resurfaced and was just like OH NO ALL MY ENVIRONMENTS ARE GONE like yeah take pride in your sketchbook full of meaningless wiggles because it means you’re working the kinks out.