I just sorted through all of my journals, and I've filled up a lot more of them than I thought I did. None of the full ones were dedicated diaries, most of them had fan and original fic snippets, or I'd used them for notes for both school and Bible study, etc, but I've got eleven (of 29) that have something in them, four of which saw substantial use and another couple I got at least a quarter of the way through. This is not counting the two I'm actively using right now.
As for the sketchbooks, I used to draw a lot more when I was younger, and then I just kind of ... stopped, for a long while in the middle there, I'm not really sure why. Which is weird, because of my two main creative outlets for a while, writing and drawing, drawing was the one I saw the most improvement in and so was the one I stuck with for much longer.
I've seen a lot of people who use their sketchbooks for semi-journaling! Youtube is both amazing and terrible for inspiration - so many gorgeous sketchbook flip-throughs and creative uses of sketchbooks! But so many of them are watercolor or marker, neither of which I'm particularly proficient with. I've only just now started adding dates to my sketches, which makes figuring out the order in which I completed my old sketchbooks really frustrating. The nice thing about the little Fashion Sketchbook is that it actually fits in my purse, so I can take it with me and sketch on the go. I'm right there with you on the scrolling instead of scribbling when bored train, though.
You're welcome for the recs! So far I've decided I'm not a huge fan of actually drawing/painting in the softcover Strathmore (particularly painting, since the dip of the spine makes all the watercolor flow to one side or the other, depending on where I am in the sketchbook), even though I love the look of it. I don't personally like spiral-bound journals (sketching or writing) for a variety of reasons, but they're actually the easiest to draw in from my (admittedly very limited) experience. The only one of my old sketchbooks that isn't spiral-bound is a flip-up, glue-bound one, which is always losing pages.
Good luck with your Moleskine! I personally find color intimidating, as most of my art experience is in graphite or some charcoal, but I've committed to at least getting the basics of watercolor figured out so I can try out some ideas. Forward progress! Cool, doodle-saturated sketchbooks await :)
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Date: 2019-02-08 10:12 am (UTC)I just sorted through all of my journals, and I've filled up a lot more of them than I thought I did. None of the full ones were dedicated diaries, most of them had fan and original fic snippets, or I'd used them for notes for both school and Bible study, etc, but I've got eleven (of 29) that have something in them, four of which saw substantial use and another couple I got at least a quarter of the way through. This is not counting the two I'm actively using right now.
As for the sketchbooks, I used to draw a lot more when I was younger, and then I just kind of ... stopped, for a long while in the middle there, I'm not really sure why. Which is weird, because of my two main creative outlets for a while, writing and drawing, drawing was the one I saw the most improvement in and so was the one I stuck with for much longer.
I've seen a lot of people who use their sketchbooks for semi-journaling! Youtube is both amazing and terrible for inspiration - so many gorgeous sketchbook flip-throughs and creative uses of sketchbooks! But so many of them are watercolor or marker, neither of which I'm particularly proficient with. I've only just now started adding dates to my sketches, which makes figuring out the order in which I completed my old sketchbooks really frustrating. The nice thing about the little Fashion Sketchbook is that it actually fits in my purse, so I can take it with me and sketch on the go. I'm right there with you on the scrolling instead of scribbling when bored train, though.
You're welcome for the recs! So far I've decided I'm not a huge fan of actually drawing/painting in the softcover Strathmore (particularly painting, since the dip of the spine makes all the watercolor flow to one side or the other, depending on where I am in the sketchbook), even though I love the look of it. I don't personally like spiral-bound journals (sketching or writing) for a variety of reasons, but they're actually the easiest to draw in from my (admittedly very limited) experience. The only one of my old sketchbooks that isn't spiral-bound is a flip-up, glue-bound one, which is always losing pages.
Good luck with your Moleskine! I personally find color intimidating, as most of my art experience is in graphite or some charcoal, but I've committed to at least getting the basics of watercolor figured out so I can try out some ideas. Forward progress! Cool, doodle-saturated sketchbooks await :)