1.3 How personal do you want your sketchbook to be? To hide, or not to hide?


 Where do you stand on how personal a sketchbook should be? 

To date I use my sketchbooks to sketch down idea. To capture people I have seen, weather conditions, an image that I see attached to words that I like. I don't believe that my sketchbooks have been overtly personal and I don't believe that people would necessarily see a deeper personal message in my sketchbooks so far. 

However, I do hope that when people look at my sketches they do get to see a piece of me and start to gain an understanding of who I am. I would like my sketchbooks to become more personal, self reflection. 

Do you want to reveal your soul or just comment about your ideas or your images?

I think a sketchbook should be flexible and versatile. Spontaneous and contain planning. A sketchbook should be everything.  Therefore if on certain days you do reveal your soul, then that is great and I would like to start delving deeper and producing more personal sketches. I have no fear of sharing my soul, only I can do it and it could never be wrong. 

How to hide: 

An camouflaged envelope....


A false page...


Secret segments....


Reflection

A really, really interesting exercise which has led me to feel curious as to how I can include hidden content into my assignment piece. 

To hide within a sketch has not even entered my mind before now so this is a really interesting and thought provoking twist that I look forward to exploring. And from the point of view of the viewer, are there hidden messages in drawings by artists and I just hadn't looked for them to notice? 

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