Mark Parker

I always carry a sketchbook around with me, and I sketch whenever I can... I might be in a financial review and be sketching because I find that I actually listen better when I sketch. Truth be told, there are probably more sketches in my books than there are written notes.

American Businessman

Jane Birkin

My father was a painter, so I was encouraged to take a sketchbook everywhere. Cameras are perishable, but I still have tonnes of sketchbooks from all the trips I've ever been on. It gets you by when you don't know what to give people as a gift; drawings are good souvenirs.

English Actress

Jeff Lemire

In the case of 'Sweet Tooth,' and in the case of a lot of stuff I do, it all starts with the image. It may be something I sketch in my sketchbooks - something that reoccurs in the sketchbooks. Eventually, a character or story line starts to grow out of that.

Canadian Artist

Molly Crabapple

My technique of working is I go around with my iPhone and with my sketchbook. I take thousands and thousands and thousands of iPhone photos. I also draw from life. I can draw really, really, really fast. It's a way that I build a rapport with people.

American Artist

Robert Crumb

I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn't cope with people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people.

Jamie Wyeth

My sketchbooks are usually just a line on one page or a circle, which to most people must be totally meaningless. But to me, they are very important to the thing I am working on.

Susan Minot

When I look through my sketchbooks, they bring back moments that I would otherwise have completely forgotten.

American Novelist

Butch Hartman

I've got a cool sketchbook that I am selling on Amazon.

Cornelia Parker

English Artist

Steve Carr

American Director

A sketchbook can also serve as a diary for visual ideas, not just for detailed drawings.

Idea Journal

Carrying a sketchbook allows for creativity anywhere, transforming any space into a personal studio.

Creative Spaces

Artists often personalize their sketchbooks, making them unique and reflective of their style.

Personal Touch

 which is kind of a new area of work that I've been doing recently. So I'll be talking about each of those today. So, first of all, my own stories. These are two of my sketchbooks. I have many of these books, and I've been keeping them for about the last eight or nine years. They accompany me wherever I go in my life, and I fill them with all sorts of things,

Jonathan Harris: The web...

 I need to. All different materials, all different styles, all different times, drawings from sketchbooks looking at the details of Rome. Part of the reason I'm showing you these is that it sort of helps illustrate this process I go through of trying to figure out what it is I feel about Rome and why I feel it.

David Macaulay: All...

 It came from me wanting to help my mom. And that’s the same power you have in your relationships with the people you care for. You know their health care needs, you live their stories with them. I understand you may still feel a bit skeptical about showing up at the doctor’s office with a sketchbook,

How Comic Strips Create...

 of a puddle outside my studio in a rainy night. So this is an afterimage of the painting made in my memory, and even that painting can fade as memory does. So this is the scale of a very small image from my sketchbook. You can see how it can explode

How we experience time...

 she imbued me with a sense of curiosity after school I would spend hours with a microscope and sketchbooks she'd given me drawing things that I found in our backyard like a pair of butterfly wings or a shell from the peanut plant we had

How design can help make...

 world was something that inspired me to be an artist we would spend about a month every summer traveling around while she photographed and my sister and I would you know bring sketchbooks along in our own little cameras and help her

Illustrating the Beauty...

 I was trying my best, and my teacher came around and asked me, "What are you doing?" "I'm drawing diligently," I said. "Why are you using only black?" Indeed, I was eagerly coloring the sketchbook in black. And I explained,

Young-ha Kim: Be an...

 so that he could stay safe and drive and the passengers could actually stay warm?" So she picked up her sketchbook right then and there, and began drawing what would become the world's first windshield wiper.

The first secret of...

 I found that drawing like this does a lot of things that photography can't do. So when somebody points a camera at you, how do you feel? A little objectified, right? When I'm drawing, I hold my sketchbook low

Wendy MacNaughton: The...

 Egan mocked that up just writing manually in this storyboard sketchbook, used the physical space constraints of those storyboard squares to write each individual tweet, and those tweets ended up becoming

Sketchbook