What's In My Lockdown Sketchbook?

Have you been keeping creative in Lockdown? I set myself the challenge of keeping a sketchbook/scrapbook as a hobby to keep me entertained. I tried to a new page every day, and I was mostly successful! The materials I have been using have been coloured fineliner, acrylic paints, pencils and collaging.

This sketchbook is most experimentation and rough sketches and not that much refined work. It can feel very daunting to just get a brand new fresh sketchbook and start to work in it, because where do you start? When I'm struggling for inspiration I normally look on Pinterest, or do rough sketches of items around me. If you still have some spare time, I would definitely recommend getting a sketchbook, just think it would be great to look through when you've finally completed it!

This is the most artwork I've done since I studied art in college and I really enjoyed it, so I'll definitely be continuing (Once I've got a new sketchbook!) It's great to just be creative without it being for a grade so you don't have to worry too much about it looking perfect.

Pink page- collaging

Detailed fineliner drawing of a flower postcard

Experimenting with collage and paint

Blue and red colour experimentation

Primary colours and shapes painting with collage. This was very hard to make neat and not look too messy. However, I'm very pleased with the results.

Rough sketches remind me of my days at college studying art. I tried to make this page look neat and refined with the brown paper and the colour story.

All yellow page and rainbow tiling exercise. I really want to do more of this.

Trying acrylic painting with fineliner drawing over the top. I'm not very good at acrylic painting and definitely prefer watercolour painting. However I'm quite pleased with the picture on the right.