On Sketching and Moleskins

nobody@vox.com(lorien) — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:44:11 +1000

I have pretty much spent the entire weekend reading about Moleskines, GTD and sketching kits/hacks. I would include a list of all the links that I explored, but it would take too long and I've closed most of those tabs already.

Oh, okay, fine. Start with this link at 43 Folders. And have a look here for creative inspiration for what you can do inside one of these notebooks. (Also, if anyone can tell me where I can get that pen holder clip he's got on the spine of his moleskine, I'll be eternally grateful.) As for the GTD stuff, it's all over the place. Google it.

My other key diversion was sketching in these books. I've already finished one moleskin a while ago and I'm halfway through my second. Plus, I have the larger sketchbook, but I haven't done much in it so far.

So this weekend, I stopped reading about sketching and grabbed some supplies and went to sketch the doggies. I didn't use a pen/pencil at all. It was pure watercolour and I am sadly out of practice. But I guess that's the whole point of the exercise, right?

Sketch Kit

My next step will be to find a little mint tin with a hinge so that I can make a little water colour box out of it. Those Pelikan paints are easily 25 years old and it wouldn't surprise me if they were 35 years old (they were my mother's originally).

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On Sketching and Moleskins