{"id":516,"date":"2020-06-06T08:32:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T08:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbansketchingworld.com\/?p=516"},"modified":"2024-03-27T13:41:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T13:41:17","slug":"how-to-design-a-dynamic-sketchbook-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbansketchingworld.com\/how-to-design-a-dynamic-sketchbook-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Design a Dynamic Sketchbook Spread"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What is a Sketchbook Spread?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Urban sketchers use their sketchbooks in various ways. Some sketchers like to do a big sketch per page of their book.  I think I fall into this camp 90% of the time.  However, some sketchers create a series of sketches on one page, or across a double page. This creates a sense of fun, it\u2019s like a collage, the sketches can tell a story or a give an overall impression of a place.  The sketches could run in a linear timeline, offering a narrative of a day.  Or perhaps they are a collection of sketches of the same or similar items that the artist has come back to over time and added more and more to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Create a Sketchbook Spread?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

First of all, this is not something you need<\/em> to do.  This is just a suggestion of how to use your sketchbook in a creative way.  The sketchbook is a unique format.  It can be used to record ideas, as a playground to explore different mediums or techniques, as a means to practice and as a place to exercise.

More often a sketchbook is almost becoming a handheld gallery.  With more and more of us offering up our sketchbooks to be flipped through physically by family and friends but also virtually by millions of strangers. I have a few of my own sketchbooks you can look through on my Youtube channel<\/a><\/strong>, such as the one below.
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https:\/\/youtu.be\/0PcI6xX4uCk<\/a>