What extraordinary scanned sketchbooks have people found out there?
Some of the most intriguing journals I’ve ever seen were done by Tracy Moore. I’ve bought some of her weird stamps and papers. It’ll take quite a while to look at all of the journals (one was done by a friend), and they’re mind-blowing. I also second atom128’s sketchbooks – gorgeous. So fluid.
The 1000 Journals project isn’t sketchbooks, strictly speaking. But I demand that you and everyone else check it out if you haven’t yet. You won’t be disappointed.
This is a digital sketchbook where many people post their sketches. I learned many of my illustration skills from this board (although I must warn you, there is a lot of childish amatuer work there…it used to not be like that…but there was a newbie flood there and well, you know what usually happens after that). A few gems can still be found there, see here, here, here and