How many Sketchbooks?

[Anonymous No.5004227]

How many Sketchbooks do you have to fill before you git gud? How many have you filled, /ic/?

[Anonymous No.5004233]

you need like two I think

[Anonymous No.5004244]

I dont use sketchbooks I use a4 paper. I don't keep count but I have gone through several 500 sheet packs in 2 years. My art is still shit however.

[Anonymous No.5004252]

You play too many video games. Your way of thinking is dumb as shit. You can fill up 500 sketchbooks and still suck.

[Anonymous No.5004255]

I had a full bookshelf of sketchbooks and was still /beg/. That's because people told me to fill a whole page with a single life-drawing and I just did 2 minute gesture drawings all day back then. I would work through a whole sketchbook in half a week. What a waste of money

[Anonymous No.5004264]

>>5004227
sketchbooks are a waste of money
join the copy paper masterrace

[Anonymous No.5004269]

>>5004264
This, it's also more compact

[Anonymous No.5004272]

>>5004252
prove it

[Anonymous No.5004273]

>>5004264
I prefer to draw on acid-free paper.

[Anonymous No.5004277]

>>5004272
500 sketchbooks full of boxes.

>>5004264
actually true, you don't give a shit about copy paper so you aren't trying to be perfect which makes it easier to draw and sketch

[Anonymous No.5004302]

>>5004264
yes, and after half a decade (or more) the history of your development as an artist will be bent, torn, and destroyed.
Sketchbooks have mobility and are better for archival purposes. I've filled over 60 sketchbooks don't even try to BS with me.
If I had started in sketchbooks even earlier than I did (began with them at about 13 years old), I'd still have some of my earliest artistic memories. Just because you want to throw away a drawing after you make it doesn't mean you wouldn't cherish it in the future as a moment of soul/clarity, an idea, or a piece of history or progress.

Get a sketchbook, and a good one at that. Drawing is an extremely cheap method of recreation

>>5004227
as for gitting gud, It doesn't matter how many you fill up, it's the content that counts. You can fill up a 100 pager in 4 months or 3 years, what's important is that you're learning, expressing, recording, and caring about what you're doing. Number or date them, they're more than just a place to draw, they're a place to catalog your life as an artist.

[Anonymous No.5004307]

>>5004302
YOu mostly use those paper for gestures and quick studies, Sketchbooks are for ideas and semi-finished drawings bruh

[Anonymous No.5004314]

>>5004302
what are you doing to sheets of paper to destroy it that doesn't affect sketchbooks?

[Anonymous No.5004317]

>>5004227
Filling a sketchbook isn't relevant to progress. Everyone has a different pace in learning and getting better.

[Anonymous No.5004319]

>>5004227
quantity is important in getting good, but it's not the sole determining factor; you can fill 100 sketchbooks and improve greatly, or fill 100 and still be /beg/

[Anonymous No.5004325]

I don't want to practice general

[Anonymous No.5004380]

>>5004227
I guess 23 sketchbooks, i finally beat my 2014 ghost and drew more than him.

I think I’ve done 300 drawings this year

>>5004264
Copy paper and binder clips

[Anonymous No.5004383]

>>5004302
lol did you know folders, portfolios, binders. etc have been around for centuries to prevent the things you're talking about?
copy paper saves space and is far more efficient because you keep the drawings you like and recycle the sheets you don't need. there's no purpose to hoarding old art for ideas unless are you short of them, expecting to lose your imagination, or have a brain injury.

[Anonymous No.5004392]

“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”

[Anonymous No.5004397]

I will try to have
>A sketchbook for dynamic sketching,hard surface stuffs and perspective,
>one for figures,and animals
another for inspiration
>a last one for sketching from life,warmups,putting random notes and Making thumbnails

I don't know if it can help me To je more productive.

[Anonymous No.5004401]

>>5004264
this, but I also got some binded so I could draw outside.

[Anonymous No.5004417]

>>5004277
>500 sketchbooks full of boxes
only do this if you want to become kjg.

[Anonymous No.5004461]

>>5004302
Thanks for laying out the facts, these shiny smooth loose paper cheap-ass dinguses don’t know what they’re missing.

[Anonymous No.5004462]

Also, sketchbooks make easel use dumb simple.

[Anonymous No.5004504]

>>5004227
like 5 and a mountain of copy papers
also work smart not hard, filled sketchbooks don't mean anything (unless you want to sell them)

[Anonymous No.5004512]

>>5004227
I started shredding all of my old sketches a few months back. It feels nice to free up some space in my closet, but it felt nice that I was moving on.

[Anonymous No.5004513]

>>5004227
I just finished my second sketchbook. I feel pretty great.

[Anonymous No.5004531]

>>5004227
define "git gud".

[Anonymous No.5004554]

>>5004227
Join the copy paper master race!

[Anonymous No.5004605]

Just buy a shitty sketchbook, just make sure the the paper thick and plentiful

[Anonymous No.5004678]

>>5004264
I switch between a sketchbook on a good day and back to printer paper if I'm feeling nervous but still want to draw or just have fun. The only downside is that they're only good for one medium.

[Anonymous No.5005020]

my "sketchbooks" are 11x17 bristol bound by binder clips. i want to fill a nice hardbound sketchbook with a variety of beautifully executed subject matter in different media like you see on youtube but ive gotten so used to drawing on completely flat paper that it feels uncomfortable to draw in anything pre-bound at all.

[Anonymous No.5005027]

>>5004227
>How many Sketchbooks do you have to fill before you git gud?
if you're seriously asking this you're ngmi

[Anonymous No.5005087]

I don't even know anymore, op.

[Anonymous No.5005093]

You want to know the truth? The truth is you never really gitgud.

Because you love what you do. You keep doing it. If you dont have the heart. You quit, so dont quit. You got this.

[Anonymous No.5005116]

I love both going through old sketchbooks and rifling through reams of paper (provided they're not like line control exercises or smth. Should I even be doing them?)

[Anonymous No.5005369]

>>5004554
Don't do this.
You can't create a masterpiece on copy paper.

[Anonymous No.5005757]

>>5004227
get computer paper, you get like a thousand sheets and can pump out a ton of work for cheap.

[Anonymous No.5005762]

>>5004461
>>5004307

[Anonymous No.5005767]

>>5005369
pump out ideas on computer paper. refine them for sketchbook. move on to better materials for the ultimate finished work.

[Tracing for cash No.5006122]

>>5004302
Absolutely SOUL

[Anonymous No.5006333]

>>5005369
You can't create a masterpiece.

[Anonymous No.5006383]

>>5005369
>>5004302
>>5005762

[Anonymous No.5006390]

>>5005369
and you can do it in a sketchbook?

[Anonymous No.5008530]

>>5004227
10 A4 sketchblocks per year just during commuting time.

[Anonymous No.5008803]

>>5005369
OMG THANK YOU, during all this time what was preventing me from creating my magnum opus was this goddamn A4 sheet of paper.

[Anonymous No.5008818]

>>5004227
Finished 6 sketchbooks nowin 2 years
Not that much

[Anonymous No.5008882]

well, I used about 1000 sheets of paper and I still sucks.

[Anonymous No.5009425]

>>5004302
>60 sketchbooks
>still at this skill level
yikes

[Anonymous No.5009426]

>>5004264
harder to store

[Anonymous No.5009500]

>>5004302
>what are folders? boxes? portfolios
goddam nigga you dumb as a brick

[Anonymous No.5009524]

>>5008882
you're supposed to draw on them.

[Anonymous No.5009816]

You need to draw a mountain, where is that comic when you need it?