I keep a sketchbook (I have three currently being actively used actually) and I have since I was but a wee pre-teen. It ebbs and flows. Sometimes I find myself adding things daily and other times I won’t add a thing for several weeks or months.
If you’re looking for a book to inspire you to keep a sketchbook or journal, I would highly recommend Graphic: Inside the Sketchbooks of the World’s Great Graphic Designers by Steven Heller and Lita Talarico. It’s filled with full page color scans of journals from illustrators, designers, animators, comic artists, web designers, architects… each page opens up a room into an artist’s personal world.
I was surprised by the level of sketches and writings. What one artist thinks of as a quick sketch looked to me like something you could mat, frame, and hang.
Highly recommended.
