How to you use your sketchbook? Or maybe you don’t. Such a little book but gives so much. It’s the artists’ equivalent of morning pages. Helps clears the mind. Capture a line. Refine spacial understanding.
Maybe juggle with colour. Investigate compositional elements. Explore sculpture shapes and ideas.
However you work, it will work for you. It’s your opportunity to explore with childlike freedom.
There’s no possibility doing it wrong. Each mark is a perfect step along the way.
Some people carry one all the time. I never did. No point wishing I had. You do what you do.
Here are some excerpts from some of my sketchbooks, and sometimes the finished work they led to