The Inspirational Drawing Book

A Drawing Book with Inspirational Quotes to Bring Out Your Inner Artist

A good sketchpad is like a playground for artists. With 200 blank pages to roam over, you can bring your sketchbook ideas to life in the Inspirational Drawing Book. Bring it to art class, use it to plan your next great work or simply record what you see as you explore the world around you.

The Inspirational Drawing Book is more than an artists’ sketchbook. It includes a short quotation on the bottom of every second page to inspire your art. These quotes, by famous artists and other creative thinkers, tell us all about drawing, art and the importance of the imagination. They will connect you to a long tradition of painters, sculptors and illustrators. They will also remind you that even if you’re just starting to learn to draw, you’re joining a community of practitioners and that you are welcome in the world of art.

Let these quotes move you to embrace your creative self. All artists struggle with doubt about themselves and their works, whether they’re first learning to draw or pushing the boundaries of traditional art with new, experimental techniques. These artists’ words can help you to step beyond fear and doubt into a space of self-confidence, wonder and joyful expression.

About Sketchbooks

Sketchbook drawing is a central part of refining your craft as an artist. No great work of art is produced after a single attempt and this drawing book gives you ample space for many studies of a single subject. Leonardo da Vinci, Paul Cézanne, Frida Kahlo, William Turner, Edgar Degas and Vincent Van Gogh famously kept beautiful drawing books that now show us how a simple sketchbook project can blossom into a masterpiece. In these pages you can experiment, trying different angles, techniques and approaches before deciding how you can best express what you want to say about your subject.

Sketchbooks are important reminders of how your ideas have evolved over time, as well as how your technical skills have developed. A drawing book for beginners might start out with some pretty rough work and finish with respectable studies. Let this sketchbook serve as a record of your progress and an artist’s journal of where your ideas started out and where they’re going.

Whether you find inspiration in life or in your own imagination, this sketchbook will give you the space you need to express your creativity. It’s suitable for pencil, charcoal, watercolours or whatever medium you prefer to sketch in. A drawing book for kids, a drawing book for adults, The Inspirational Drawing Book makes a great gift for the artists in your life.