PSA: Grouping sketches by concept made my sketchbook tours actually enjoyable

For years, my sketchbooks were a chaotic mix of ideas, making tours awkward as I fumbled through pages. I started marking edges with washi tape in different colors for each project, like blue for landscapes and red for character studies. Suddenly, during tours, I could flip directly to coherent sections, and the narrative flow just clicked. It's a simple fix, but it made sharing my process so much more intentional.

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jade_carter11d ago

Your old sketchbook chaos sounds way too familiar. That tape trick is actually genius.

sarah95011d ago

Ugh, finding that old sketchbook was a trip. I had a whole drawer full of dried up pens and those crumbly erasers. The worst was the cracked tape holding some pages together, it just made everything more fragile. Felt like I was uncovering some weird art crime scene I committed years ago. Why did I even keep the broken supplies?

reese_robinson11d ago

Found that scanning pages works better than tape.