Creating a Culture of Sketchbooks in a High School Art

Program
Sketchbook and creativity resources
Full list available at: http://sketchbob.com/resources/
Digital version

BOOKS
Brereton, Richard
Sketchbooks: The Hidden Art of Designers, Illustrators and Creatives
Amazon link.
Burroughs, William S.
The Burroughs File
Amazon link.
Copeland, John
Selected Works from Journals 7-22
Limited edition available through the artists website here.
Eldon, Dan (author) and Eldon, Kathy (editor).
The Journey is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon
Amazon link.
Gregory, Danny
An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and
Designers
Amazon link.
Haring, Keith, Robert Farris Thompson, and Sheperd Fairey
Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Amazon link.
Manco, Tristan
Street Sketchbook: Inside the Journals of International Street and Graffiti Artists
Amazon link.
Manco, Tristan
Street Sketchbook Journeys
Amazon link.
New, Jennifer
Drawing from Life: The Journal as Art
Amazon link.
ODonnell, Timothy
Sketchbook: Conceptual Drawings from the Worlds Most Influential Designers
Amazon link.
Perella, Lynne
Artists Journals & Sketchbooks: Exploring and Creating Personal Pages

Amazon link.
Rothman, Julia
Drawn In: A Peek into the Private Sketchbooks of 44 Fine Artists, Illustrators, Graphic Designers,
and Cartoonists
Amazon link.
Scott, Eric M. and David R. Modler
The Journal Junkies Workshop: Visual Ammunition for the Art Addict
Amazon link.
Someguy and Kelly, Kevin
The 1,000 Journals Project
Amazon link.

***WEBSITES and PAGES

1000 Journals by Someguy
The online center of the 1000 Journals Project. See scans from many of the journals and track
their progress across the globe.
http://1000journals.com/
1001 Journals by Someguy
Yes, its a different site. Due to the popularity of the 1,000 Journals Project, Someguy created
1,001 Journals as a way for people to continue participating in collective sketchbooks.
http://www.1001journals.com/
About Creativity by Dan Brodnitz
The tagline working artists share what works pretty much sums it up. The site is full of wonderful
interviews with creators who work in visual arts, writing, dance, movies, theater, comics, games,
inventions, comics, and cartoons.
http://about-creativity.com/
Accidental Creative by Todd Henry
An all-around resource for people in creative professions; put out by a consultancy whos mission
is to free up creatives and teams to do their best work.
http://www.accidentalcreative.com/
American Elf by James Kochalka
The daily comic diary of artist and musician James Kochalka.
http://americanelf.com/
The Art of Nonconformity (AONC) by Chris Guillebeau
According to Guillebeau, the site is about unconventional strategies for life, work, and travel.
The AONC is also a storehouse of wonderful advice about writing blogs and promoting creative
work in all media.
http://www.chrisguillebeau.com/
Artists Sketchbooks Online by Scattergood-Moore
An online visual database of artists sketchbooks created in 1998. Perhaps the most
comprehensive collection of resources Ive seen.
http://www.gis.net/~scatt/sketchbook/links2.html
Book by its Cover by Julia Rothman (sketchbook section)

A book-themed blog by NYC pattern designer and illustrator Julia Rothman.http://www.book-byits-cover.com/category/sketchbooks

Daneldon.org by Kathy Eldon
Dan Eldon was an artist, photographer, and activist who was killed in while on assignment in
Somalia for Reuters in 1993. Dans personal creative work included a series of visual journals
that make up The Journey is the Destination (listed above in the books section).
http://www.daneldon.org/site/
Kerismith.com by Keri Smith
Keri is an illustrator and the author of several books on creativity, including Wreck This Journal,
This is Not a Book, and Mess: The Manual of Accidents and Mistakes.
http://www.kerismith.com/
Library I by Ray Fenwick
A collection of sketchbooks/artists books by Canadian Illustrator Ray Fenwick.
http://rayfenwick.ca/#467031/Library-I
Look at Book by Oliver Jeffers, Rory Jeffers, Mac Premo, and Duke ReileyFour artists on
two continents spent 36 weeks co-creating a sketchbook by mail. Here is the extraordinary result.
http://lookatbook.com/
Moleskine Official Website
The corporate site of my house pour, the Moleskine large sketchbook.
http://www.moleskine.com/
Moleskinerie by Moleskine
The official blog of Moleskine originally started by Armand Frasco.
http://www.moleskinerie.com/
Moleskinerie Flickr Group
A Flickr group dedicated to sketchbook art and Moleskine.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/36521985904@N01
More Regrettable Incidents in a Life Filled with Bitter Remorse by David Fullarton
A Flickr set of sketchbook images from San Francisco-based artist and illustrator David Fullarton.
This man has a wicked sense of humor.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fullarton/sets/1381539/
Orly Avineris Blog
The blog and online gallery of California-based artist Orly Avineri.
http://oneartistjournal.wordpress.com/
Tommy Kane by Tommy Kane
Kane labels himself an advertising art director who masquerades as an amateur illustrator.
Overly humble, if you ask me. Heres his blog about sketching, which includes plenty of great
images of work in progress.
http://tommykane.blogspot.com/
Visual Thinking: Curators Choice by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution
Webpage dedicated to a November 2005 Smithsonian exhibition of artists sketchbooks.
http://www.aaa.si.edu/exhibitions/visual-thinking-sketchbooks

Wayne Jiang Sketchbooks by Wayne Jiang

Web gallery of sketchbooks by California-based painter Wayne Jiang.
http://www.waynejiang.com/sketchbooks/index.html

***OTHER RESOURCES
1000 Journals DVD
Filmmaker Andrea Kreuzhage paints an engaging portrait of the 1000 Journals Project.
Amazon link.
An Illustrated Life podcast by Danny Gregory
A 13-part series in which Danny Gregory interviews the artists and designers whose work
appears in his book An Illustrated Life.
iTunes link.
Art Heroes Radio podcast by John T. Unger
An excellent podcast about issues working artists face in making art and making a living.
iTunes link.
Little Scraps of Paper by Thomas Leach with Nicholas Cambier and Daniel Diego Lincoln
A collection of short films about creative professionals and the process by which they make their
work.
http://littlescrapsofpaper.co.uk/#999688/Little-Scraps-of-Paper