A sketchbook isn't just an art practice document. It's also a visual journal of your visual thoughts chronicling your visual thought process on paper. Sketchbooking is one way of using a literary device (paper) to chronicle the manifestation of your artistic, design, and visual forms, thoughts, and pencil mileage on paper for future generations. Sketchbooks don't necessarily need a thematic narrative. The forms and lines on paper and the time and space that art travels through to be made manifest is narrative.
I always found free form expression with lines on paper just as literary as writing in a written journal all day, but I never thought to write an artistic statement to go with my creative accomplishments, Now that I bought a highly expensive (around $250) Neat scanner, which can scan artwork, if your willing to seek out some freeware that converts PDF documents. I scanned well over 300 pages in 4 to 5 hours with that sucker, condensing a weeks to months worth of work into less than 24 hours.
so there you go...The first paragraph of this blog is my artistic statement on sketchbooks, or nonsketchbook compilations of ballpoint pen linework on printer paper stacks and the like. Either way, my artistic statement.
I always found free form expression with lines on paper just as literary as writing in a written journal all day, but I never thought to write an artistic statement to go with my creative accomplishments, Now that I bought a highly expensive (around $250) Neat scanner, which can scan artwork, if your willing to seek out some freeware that converts PDF documents. I scanned well over 300 pages in 4 to 5 hours with that sucker, condensing a weeks to months worth of work into less than 24 hours.
so there you go...The first paragraph of this blog is my artistic statement on sketchbooks, or nonsketchbook compilations of ballpoint pen linework on printer paper stacks and the like. Either way, my artistic statement.
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