Return Of The Analog Sketchbook

I bought an iPad about 6 months ago and I felt it was a significant enough purchase that I decided to let it replace my paper sketchbook for the time being. I did some really cool experiments using the iPad as a sketchbook and continue to do so, my favorite sketching app is called Procreate. Really fun and easy to use. With current projects being done on my Cintiq and my sketching being done on my iPad I was using very little paper or ink or paint at all.

I missed working on paper and keeping sketchbooks. I've been keeping sketchbooks since I was 14 and have boxes and boxes of them. I felt like I was breaking a pretty good tradition.

Also, an issue with iPad sketching is it's not overly conducive to messiness. That cool, interesting messiness that comes out of exploring a line or a tone.

A brand new independent art supply store opened just a block down the street and I thought the timing was good to start a regular sketchbook again. Now I'm using both my iPad and my sketchbook and drawing more because of it. I can discover and explore things in any medium.

Relieved to have access to paper again.