The project sends sketchbooks with different themes and ideas to different artists all over Taiwan and the world. The purpose is to create a community of artists and inspire creativity.
When I first got the idea, I bought five sketchbooks at the art supply store. They were pretty nice custom made sketchbooks for illustrators. Then the thought process began. I started making a list of ideas. My wife and daughter stayed at her parents house in Taipei so I had 2 days alone to plan. I basically spent the whole time placing sketchbooks in order on the floor and putting sticky notes on them with their topic.
The list really grew when I went to my studio and my office and grabbed all the sketchbooks I could find. I didn't realize I had so many, over 30. A lot of the sketchbooks were close to empty, I started them for a reason and stuck them on a shelf. So I went through them all, ripped out some pages and made a pile of the ones I could use. At the end of the day my idea list was up to 30. Now I needed more sketchbooks, I went to a few bookstores and bought about ten more.
The next day I was up to 50 ideas and I was off to more bookstores and art supply stores. The ideas just kept coming. I even found a few other things around the house like an erotica novel and a book with random words.
I will try to properly describe each sketchbook under their own topic.
It's hard to explain how much work actually went into the planning. I counted all the pages in every book and measured the size. I decided on how many artists would draw in each book and how many pages they would get. I wrote a description about each idea. I started a list cataloging all the books. I try to make each sketchbook have different rules and requirements. I specialize in variety. As a designer I would sometimes come up with more than 50 ways to represent a logo. For this project , I will try a variety of artists, pages, time, size, medium, location and themes.
I have problems documenting my ideas because they move so fast. It is much easier to talk to someone in person and explain my thoughts. I will do my best. I hope i am accurately portraying my idea for this project.
Currently I have 56 sketchbooks confirmed, and about 6 other ideas floating around. Some ideas I'm not sure will work. I will let some time pass and see if they get selected. One idea is "inventions", but I'm not sure if I could get enough to fill a book, and how good it would be, some inventors don't like to share their ideas. Another idea is to go to the fine art's museum and fine artists roaming around to sketch in the book, that might be difficult.
There are about 8 ideas that I don't have the sketchbook for yet. For the fish book I want a a long sketchbook, I might have to make it. I will have to make the transparency sketchbook, I have never heard of that. I am not sure what size I want for zodiac battle, newspaper and poker. I need to find the right book for the little afro children's book, I don't want a ring binding and I don't want it to be too big.
The project continues....
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