Exercise 1.3 - How Personal?

1. How personal do I think a sketchbook should be?
I think I used to see sketchbooks just as a place to try out ideas or prepare for larger pieces of work. I never even considered using it more personally and how that could serve me and help me work through life issues as well as working on ideas for future pieces of work. I am very intrigued to try this.

2. How much will I share and with who?
I think that I am willing to share most of my sketchbook work with most people, however if I do decided to try using it more personally I think I would either find ways to mask the content or just share with my tutor and nobody else. I am not entirely sure until I try this.
I like Emma’s idea of hiding really personal things in the binding and am intrigued on how to do this.

I taped my 4 books into my sketchbook using washi tape. In order to hide the content I could stick some of the pages together. Stick things over the books, add in envelopes. Completely cover the page with another page. I could cut flaps in to let little parts peek through.


I started researching book structures and ways to hide pages. This is something I need to continue to look into and find new ways of concealing pages etc. I also checked out Emma's board on book structures.

3D Mock Ups:

I originally stuck my 4 mini books into this sketchbook with washi tape, which turned out not to be strong enough and they all fell out and so I thought it perfect to illustrate the envelope pocket and tuck them inside it.

Whats cool about this flap is that you can hide something both sides, not just one!

Here is the bow when open before tying.

It was quite fun to come up with these ideas, it's not something I've done before. It'll be interesting to see how I can incorperate these into my future sketchbooks.