Its such a shame they can't be physically handed in - the joy is in the tattiness and the physical flicking through of sodden heavy pages and rambling ideas and notes
My taste / opinion on my work seems to grow faster than I can make it - so the older sketchbooks feel odd to look back through now ? But I think I've learned during this project the importance and value in going back through old ideas - I drew them at that time for a reason - they're part of the process. I've learned the importance of comparing my work to my work, not other peoples. And going back through old sketchbooks really helps in this.
The first few sketchbooks were used to try and grasp my stories, which I worked out through thinking and modifying through drawing - the later sketchbooks are more about character development and page planning.
Its such a joy at uni to be able to use sketchbooks how I want them to be used - like my personal ones - rather than during high school where they were also a place where research had to be stuck in and evaluation of work had to be done inside - took away the personal space of that explorative place.
Anyway - sketchbooks have been a big deal for me during this project:
FLICK THROUGHS OF EACH SKETCHBOOK::
(ideally I would have scanned each page in but my scanner isnt great and moves at snails pace so I'd still be scanning come August)
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