ArtMetal

I was reminded yesterday of one of my bad habits. I sketch stuff as I work, jot down ideas really, I sketch stuff when I relax, heck I'm sketching a new avatar design as I type this. The problem is that I sketch on what ever is handy. Yesterday my wife brings me this stack of papers and says "Here you decide which of these are worth keeping, cause if this stack of papers falls on the floor one more time" So I went through them, kept about half of the stack in a folder. I have gotten better over the years. When my instructor wanted 25 new designs for the next day, I brought in a shoebox full of napkins from the student union. He gave me my first, very own, Thing he called a "sketchbook". I've had hundreds since then. They are these really cool pads? of blank paper all the same size with a binder and a cover. My first had an inscription on the inside cover, "Don't let me see you without this, Ed " I like the kind that say "sketchbook" on the cover as opposed to the ones that say "Drawing Tablet" cause I haven't done a finished drawing in over ten years. My work is in metal, my thoughts on paper. I wake up about 2 hours earlier than my wife. She'd hurt me if I started hammering on metal before she has had her morning coffee. So I moved a sketchbook to the table where I have mine. Moved the napkins and post-it-notes, too. I very seldom have trouble getting started on a new project. According to my sketchbooks I'm several thousand designs behind. "Don't let me see you without this." Brad