My new class Sketchbook Composition + Layout has just opened and one of the central topics are the individual layout elements you can find on each page – all the elements that you add by drawing, painting, writing and annotating or highlighting.
Here’s an outtake video from the course:
Layout Elements for Sketchbook Composition (video)
In this course outtake, I show each layout element with several examples and talk about how you can add variety. In a subsequent lessons, I’ll show how you can create your own very simple layout with just two layout elements, and how you can combine more elements for more complex compositions. Think of your sketchbook as an empty stage, and of these elements as actors on that stage.
Typical elements in a sketchbook can be:
- drawings + paintings
- text + lettering
- questions
- metadata
- notes about behaviour, diagrams, timelines
- maps
- thoughts, quotes, poems
- white space
In the video I show more about every single item and how you can use it – as a standalone, or together with other elements.
All these different elements will add variety to your sketchbook pages, and will make them more interesting. You don’t have to use every single one, but try out everything at least once to see what you like, and your sketchbook will come together in your rhythm and style over time.
Learn more in my new class Sketchbook Composition and Layout, over 1.5 hours of video.
The class is available directly from my website (with pay-what-you-want pricing) or through Skillshare.
