• great for note taking and doodling!.

Daler-Rowney Simply Hard Cover Pocket Sketchbook, 3.5" x 5.5", 65 lb, 72 Sheet This sketchbook is perfect for any artist on the go. With soft white, unlined paper, this sketchbook is light and portable enough to take anywhere.The paper is -free and the perfect surface for all dry techniques, including calligraphy. The embossed leather-like cover sketchbook comes with a bookmark, inner accordion pocket, and an elastic band closure. Fill these blank pages with unique designs and creative illustrations, or let your imagination run wild with silly doodles and wacky ideas. This 72 page book is the perfect blank canvas for you to track your progress and watch your drawing skills improve from start to finish. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Daler Rowney Simply Pocket Sketch , Hardbound with Unlined Pages, 3.5" x 5.5", 72 Sheet ----------------------------------------------------------------- * 65 lb / 100 gsm soft white, -free paper * Perfect for any artist on the go * Soft white, unlined paper * Light and portable enough to take anywhere * The paper is -free and the perfect surface for all dry techniques, including calligraphy * The embossed leather-like cover sketchbook comes with a bookmark, inner accordion pocket, and an elastic band closure How to Become Better at Drawing: * Learn how to hold your pencil: Place the pencil between your forefinger and thumb on your dominant hand. Try holding it about a fourth of the way up from the tip. For basic drawing, you don’t want to hold your pencil too close to the tip or you won’t be able to move it enough, while holding it too far back won’t give you enough control. Maintain a loose enough grip so that you can move your fingers, hand, and wrist. * Practice basic techniques: Practice drawing basic shapes freehand. A lot of what you draw is essentially made up of shapes like circles, ovals, squares, rectangles, and triangles. Your art will incorporate these shapes in different ways to form an image. Practice shading. Fill a sheet of drawing paper with 2 centimeter boxes and number them off. Leave the first block blank, then very lightly shade the first block. As you continue to each new block, make it a darker shade until the last box is colored in black, creating a shading gradient reference guide. * Draw what you see around you: The best way to improve your drawing abilities is going back to the basics! Find an ordinary object around you and begin drawing it. Look at how the light source casts a shadow on and around the object. You can tell where a light source is coming from because the shadow will be pointing site the light, and this will help you to understand how to shade an object and incorporate depth. Consider proportions and dissect the object into the basic shapes you practiced before. Welcome to Daler-RowneyOur products touch the lives of artists in every step of their artistic journey, from early childhood drawings to abstract canvases to adorn walls. We endeavor to inspire artists of all ages and open up new rtunities for their need to create. Enjoy the experience!