An Illustrated Life

1daniel • 9th Dec 2009 • Blog

I am sitting out in my dungeon where I should be taking an active roll in doing my homework. It is finals week after all. Distracting me from my homework at the moment isAn Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers that my dear friend Alex sent me. The book shows pages from sketchbooks of artists. Each section is only a few pages long and has about a half a dozen or more pages from each persons sketchbook. Each artist is different and uses their sketchbook for different things. Each artist writes a small essay detailing why they do what they do. At the moment I can’t put the book down. It is beautiful. Every page inspires me more to pull out my sketchbook and draw something. Of course that is funny because I have not motivated myself to draw my final for my class yet. Either way this is a beautiful book and should be in every artist collection.