And then there was the time I bought a Copic sketchbook specifically designed for markers... right about the time that I was falling out of love with markers and so I ended up filling up several pages with pen drawings and thus "wasting" the marker paper. (Markers are lovely and vibrant when they are brand new, but they dry out so quickly so you constantly have to refill them with ink ... whereas watercolors last practically forever and you only ever run out of a handful of favorite colors.) And I bought a two-pack of sketchbooks designed for colored pencil ... right around the time I realized that I'm too lazy to ever do colored pencil justice (it requires so many layers and detail work and I'm just a splash-and-scribble kind of artist) so the second one is just sitting there unused while I ponder what to do with it.
Also ... I have determined that I have an irrational dislike of spiral bound sketchbooks. I can't logically explain why, because I also hate a hard-bound sketchbook with a tight binding that doesn't let you open the book out flat. But ... I've never liked any of my spiral sketchbooks and I think it might just be that slight shift of the pages when you move your hand and the page doesn't stay still. (The current Talens sketchbook is now my favorite for a hard-bound sketchbook that actually opens up flat.)
And are you ever tempted to buy that gigantic 600-page sketchbook that was trendy a few years ago? (It seemed like everyone on YouTube was doing the "challenge" to fill up the giant sketchbook.) The reviews are exactly what you expect (it's so heavy as to be unweildy, the paper isn't good quality, etc) and yet I still find myself tempted.
Anyhoo... I'll have more art to post after work. I started to post something last night and then my laptop battery died mid-post (even though the plug is *right there*, I wasn't paying attention and left it unplugged) and I just took it as a sign from the universe that it was time to go to sleep.
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Re: art supplies
Date: 2022-07-26 04:48 pm (UTC)From:Also ... I have determined that I have an irrational dislike of spiral bound sketchbooks. I can't logically explain why, because I also hate a hard-bound sketchbook with a tight binding that doesn't let you open the book out flat. But ... I've never liked any of my spiral sketchbooks and I think it might just be that slight shift of the pages when you move your hand and the page doesn't stay still. (The current Talens sketchbook is now my favorite for a hard-bound sketchbook that actually opens up flat.)
And are you ever tempted to buy that gigantic 600-page sketchbook that was trendy a few years ago? (It seemed like everyone on YouTube was doing the "challenge" to fill up the giant sketchbook.) The reviews are exactly what you expect (it's so heavy as to be unweildy, the paper isn't good quality, etc) and yet I still find myself tempted.
Anyhoo... I'll have more art to post after work. I started to post something last night and then my laptop battery died mid-post (even though the plug is *right there*, I wasn't paying attention and left it unplugged) and I just took it as a sign from the universe that it was time to go to sleep.