New Drawing Exercises: Keep or Trash?
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@eshields
As I navigate the courses I'm taking and going through exercises and reinforcement practices, I'm struggling with what to keep and what to toss and what would be great to go in a sketch book.
Is there value in keeping those early drawings and exercises, including the not-so-good ones? Or do you keep what you like/love and call the rest just practice?
Your sketchbook is your sandbox where you can play, practice, fail without anyone noticing. It is not a portfolio of your best pieces.
I don't see why you'd want to toss any drawings. They're a record of where you've been and where you're going and they can give you valuable insight into what you do well and can expand upon and what you need work on. One day it might be nice to look at them and get some perspective on how far you've come. I keep my basic warmup line and circle exercises in a separate sketchbook and I don't mind tossing in those although even then it might be nice to see how much you've improve at those over time. If you're working digitally you have the benefit of not needed to worry about sketchbooks taking up physical space even if the trouble of choosing how to organize comes into play.
