What to draw in a sketchbook for a beginner

Never compare your sketchbook with someone else's. This is just your path to excellence. Just as we all learned to walk, eat with a spoon or write in different ways, we learn to draw in the same way. At the same time, each artist eventually develops his own style, a kind of handwriting in his drawings, which makes him a bright individuality. To some, this style will seem unsurpassed, and someone will consider the drawings to be bad taste. Remember that not everyone likes even Leonardo da Vinci or Aivazovsky. So why wait for approval from those who have already gone their way or, on the contrary, did not even begin to start it?

Even having figured out what a sketchbook is and how to keep it, having come up with ideas for drawings and preparing everything you need, many people delay the moment they start working with a sketchbook, being afraid of damaged pages. But in fact, mistakes and failures cannot be avoided this way, so the learning process is only delayed and delayed. Remember that only those who do nothing do not make mistakes.

By drawing every day, you will quickly improve your skills, but daily growth is usually difficult to notice on your own. Review your previous work, mark mistakes, repeat old drawings with new skills over and over again until you reach your ideal. And also, revisiting old drawings can give inspiration and suggest the idea of depicting the old in a completely new style and with new subtleties and details.

In search of inspiration and new ideas, look through the works of other authors, visit exhibitions and galleries, pay attention to everything that surrounds you. Don't be afraid to copy other people's drawings and ideas. Remember that sketchbooking is learning, and it's good for learning to find an example. In addition, it is equally useful both to completely copy someone else's drawing, trying to understand how the author depicted this or that effect, and to refine it or completely rethink it.

It often happens that ideas for a sketchbook have appeared, but the fear of failure does not even allow you to try to depict what has developed into a beautiful picture in your head. In fact, no one ever knows if he will succeed, and doubts are quite normal. However, fear and insecurity will not help you become a professional. Try it, take a risk. Perhaps it will turn out much better than you think, and if not, then on paper you can see your shortcomings and understand what exactly needs to be worked out and improved.

Many successful designers keep several sketchbooks at once. This allows you to separate professional work that can be shown to a potential customer from sketches and hobbies. For a working sketchbook, a strict style is usually chosen, often a notebook with a black hard cover. The drawings in it are arranged in a certain sequence, which is convenient for both the author and the potential client. A personal sketchbook can be absolutely anything and include both attempts to draw something for work, and sketches that are absolutely unrelated to it.

Tumblr-style pictures can be considered a special kind of page design, spread, or even an entire sketchbook. These are small pictures-icons that are not explicitly related to each other. Most often they are depicted with a simple pencil, but sometimes they can be multi-colored. On one sheet there can be flowers, planets, stars, dishes, fruits and berries, birds, snowflakes and much more. At the end, the drawings are connected with a liner or marker, combining them into a single picture. From the outside, it may seem that someone was busy with something completely different when they randomly drew these drawings, or even that the work has several authors at once. Playing with different combinations of figures, practicing drawing all of them at once is a great way to spend a few free minutes with a sketchbook in hand.

Practice in drawing is great, but in the process of learning various interesting thoughts, questions and ideas will arise, and when you re-view the work, you will notice your mistakes. Leave space for text or alternate pictures with text pages. This will be especially useful for the very first sketchbook. Notes will help you grow faster, and will also help you remember your thoughts at the very beginning of the journey.

Sometimes inspiration disappears, there is no strength and desire to do something and try, there is not even an understanding of whether you need it in the future. It's not scary, burnout occurs in the most beloved job, and in a hobby, and even in relationships. Despite the rule of daily work with a sketchbook, sometimes it is useful to take a short break. Just leave your notebook for a day, a week or even a month. New emotions and experiences will definitely make themselves felt when you are ready to return to sketching again, but at the same time this return will be filled with love and the desire to create.

What can be drawn in a sketchbook, how to design it, where to get ideas and inspiration - we have already sorted it all out. It remains only to take a notebook and start creating in it what you want right here and now. Don't wait for Monday, a new month, or good weather. May tomorrow you already be one step closer to your dream than today!