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4.21.09

Sketchbooks: The Hidden art of designers, illustrators & creatives+ Tell Me Whose you want to see

Richard Brereton

I kicked myself a couple times when this book came in the mail. I’ve thought about trying to gather all the sketchbook images I’ve posted on this blog and trying to pitch a book to a publisher about sketchbooks. It’s been done before this book many times and will be done again in the future so I’m not too worried. It’s just that this book has Pablo Amargo’s sketchbook in it, which I posted a while back and Henrik Drescher’s, who I’ve interviewed here about his China Notebooks. So that’s two already! The rest of the book is full of sketches from artists around the world with bios, their picture and their thoughts on sketching. Lots of great stuff from artists I have never heard of.

And so now I invite you to tell me whose sketchbook you are interested in seeing. So far I have been picking my favorites for our series but I would love your suggestions. I will contact the artists and let them know they have been nominated to share and hopefully they’ll give us a peek. Just leave their names in the comment section below.

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38 Comments

04/21/09 10:52am

Abi wrote

Ben Jones! Gary Panter! Joe Buzzell! Jenny Volvovsky!

04/21/09 12:01pm

janete wrote

i’d love to see steven harrington, rachel domm, christopher david ryan…but any artist would be inspiring!

04/21/09 12:02pm

Beth wrote

Calef Brown, Trisha Krauss

04/21/09 12:05pm

julia wrote

Beth- Calef Brown shared! Right here-
http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/sketchbooks/sketchbook-series-calef-brown

04/21/09 1:18pm

ksklein wrote

Baris Kesoglu
Christina Vantzou
Juli Morstad
Okan Arabacioglu
Yuko Shimizu

04/21/09 2:54pm

Abi wrote

Donna Huanca?
Edie Fake?
Christian DeFillipo?
Chris Kyung?
James Morrison?

04/21/09 2:57pm

Sarah. wrote

some European input:

Marc Boutavant
Dick Bruna
Blex Bolex
Sara Fanelli

04/21/09 3:15pm

julia wrote

ksklein- Julie Morstad we have too– http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/sketchbooks/sketchbook-series-julie-morstad

04/21/09 8:37pm

Ada wrote

Oh there’s so many.
David Shillinglaw.
Dan McCarthy.
Miso + Ghostpatrol.
Kate Bingaman-Burt.
Jen Stark.
Jesse Reno.
Souther Salazar.

Thanks!

04/22/09 3:40am

plumers wrote

Some astonishing sketchbooks I saw:
Francesca Bazzurro (saw her travel notebooks on exhibition in France, but you can see it here)
Joanna Concejo (had a glimpse at her notebook on exhibition during the Bologna Bookfair in 2008, here are a few pictures of the exhibition, but none of her sketchbooks)
Irina Troitskaya (on her blog)
Christian Montenegro

What about young comic artists?

04/22/09 3:46am

Megan Warre wrote

I’ve got this book – it’s amazing! Lots of the artists in it are also in Graphic 10 (the one about sketchbooks), but it’s nice to see different sketchbook pages…

David Shrigley
Craig Atkinson
David Hughes
Benoit Jacques
Olivier Kugler

04/22/09 8:01am

Esti wrote

Marcel Dzama
Kate Horan
Betsy Walton
Heather Smith Jones
Allison Mellberg
Julia Pott
Lisa Solomon
Marcus Oakley
…

04/22/09 8:08am

julia wrote

Esti–
Katy Horan did share!
http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/sketchbooks/sketchbook-series-katy-horan

How come you guys keep naming artists who already did show their sketchbooks here? Do you guys really read the blog! (just kidding)

04/22/09 9:31am

Jacqueline wrote

Dena Staffo
Isabelle Arsenault
Gina Triplett
Joe Sorren
Camille Rose Garcia

Some sketchbooks I’ve seen that are really good belong to Karen Klassen, Mike Kerr and Renata Liwska – all talented illustrators with impressive sketchbooks.

04/22/09 12:31pm

Janice wrote

I think I’m becoming a sketchbook addict. I’m so pleased I’ve found this blog. I bought the book recently and was blown away by it.

04/22/09 1:59pm

suhita wrote

can we see your sketchbook?

04/22/09 2:05pm

julia wrote

Suhita- I’ve posted my sketchbooks twice-
http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/sketchbooks/sketchbook-series-julia-rothman

and

http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/sketchbooks/sketchbook-seriesjulia-rothman-part-2

04/22/09 2:14pm

Sofia wrote

all of those mentioned above plus stina persson PLUS peter callesen!

04/22/09 2:50pm

ex libris wrote

Aquirax Uno
Betsy Walton
Lauren Nassef
Marijke (of The Fool)
Marguerite Sauvage
Alia Penner
Catherine Ryan
Kime Buzzelli
Katy (KT) Smail
Richard Coleman
Studio Violet

04/22/09 2:58pm

julia wrote

Hi Ex Libris-

Lauren Nassef’s sketchbooks were shared here already–

http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/sketchbooks/sketchbook-series-lauren-nassef

And Camilla Engman of Studio Violet as well–

http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/sketchbooks/sketchbook-series-camilla-engman

04/22/09 9:03pm

Abbey H wrote

Wow! Great lists so far! I second many of the artists above (esp. Betsy Walton). I also really love John Copeland’s sketchbooks and would like a closer look. Good luck deciding!

04/22/09 10:08pm

Sean wrote

You totally should have pitched this. Love your sketchbook posts.

04/23/09 12:30am

virginia wrote

paolo rivera
david mazachelli
reid johnson
joe quinones
maris (dots for eyes)
steve oh
ryan dunn

04/23/09 1:29am

ex libris wrote

Thanks for directing me to Lauren Nassef’s sketchbook– I hadnt seen that one.

I would like to see Studio Violet specific sketches, maybe showing the development or brainstorming for those little characters and how the collaboration happened between the two artists.

Sketchbooks of collaborative studios or collectives, comparing the books of the various artists involved could be another interesting slant… ie the Royal Art Lodge or Studio Violet.

04/25/09 1:13pm

lydia wrote

fay ku!

04/25/09 5:38pm

babelfish wrote

This book looks wonderful, I love artists’ sketchbooks. I think your interviews is an added value to a book in the genre, looking forward to it!

04/25/09 5:41pm

babelfish wrote

Can we have a list of artists’ sketchbooks you’ve already shared here? perhaps listed in the menu somewhere, would be helpful to know.

04/26/09 6:28am

tyaptya wrote

Babelfish.. the last option in the menu says: SKETCHBOOKS

04/26/09 2:04pm

babelfish wrote

I was just hoping for a list of names instead of having to scroll :)

04/26/09 7:38pm

EJH wrote

Holly Stevenson
Balint Zsako

04/27/09 7:53pm

Koelle wrote

WARD ZWART!

04/29/09 3:16am

Lara Nicholls wrote

Rebecca dautremer
Benjamin Lacombe

What a fantastic idea!!

04/30/09 3:25am

NANA wrote

I want it !

04/30/09 8:48pm

gepetto wrote

give us a look into the sketchbook of OKAT of doodlersanonymous.com fame, pls!

05/5/09 2:35am

anna wrote

definitely room in the world for another collection of sketchbooks. you should definitely make the julia collection one day.

recently saw some of ryoji arai’s sketchbooks in an exhibition and they looked pretty great….

05/6/09 1:32pm

Teri wrote

I love this book! one of my schoolmate’s sketchbook was featured in there too. Hiro Kurata, his work is really amazing!

05/14/09 4:00pm

Aydeeyai wrote

I second (third?) the requests to see the sketchbooks from:
Gina Triplett
Sara Fannelli
Betsy Walton
Julia Pott

Also, would love to see the sketchbooks of:
Christopher Silas Neal
Josh Cochran
Olaf Hajek
Martha Rich
Susie Gharemani
Abbey Hendrickson

05/16/09 9:11am

Fay Ku wrote

I’m flattered someone mentioned my name (thanks, Lydia), and I would love to share; unfortunately I cannot as I do not keep a sketchbook. I haven’t since I was an undergraduate and was required to. I think my work, which is on paper and is produced rather quickly, is the directly working out of ideas, and so not too unrelated to what sketchbooks. But thanks for suggesting me!

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