Discussion 1

Basically the writer’s suggestion in regards to keeping a sketchbook is that you have to find time for it, and to do it every day. All that time we spend doing other small things such as scrolling through our phones and doing nothing on the train when we commute could easily be better spent sketching and making our drawing skills better. Other suggestions are that it’s okay that our drawings don’t look perfect because at the end of the day they’re only sketches and we progress with them and whatever we finish with the time given to us is fine. In addition I like how Abrams mentions how it doesn’t matter what materials we use when sketching and that what we use doesn’t matter unless we understand the essentials and that the best practice is still life, which is among my favorite things to draw. I have kept a regular sketchbook before but in the past I eventually just stopped drawing it which is a shame..due to time or I just sketch on pieces of paper. In keeping mine I hope to use this sketchbook to see my progress as a designer/illustrator and to better myself in regards to drawing things and people in motion. In regards to the quote that Steven Reddy says, what I think it means is that when drawing still life and things of the sort, to focus on the then and now and just draw your heart out and to just focus and be in that moment in time so you can get everything.