Art1st® Sketch Diary with Pocket, White Paper, 70 Sheets, 8.5 x 11 in.

Exercise your creativity with this Art1st® Sketch Diary of premium drawing paper! This pad of unruled drawing paper is the perfect blank slate for you to let your imagination reign. The notepad comes with 70 perforated sheets of medium-weight, smooth paper, perfect for doodling, designing and coloring. Each page has a micro-perforated edge which easily tears out so you can proudly frame or display your finished works of art. This durable sketchbook features a sturdy cardboard cover so that the crisp white heavyweight paper on the inside won't get folded or crinkled. Fill these blank pages with unique designs and creative illustrations, or let your imagination run wild with silly doodles and wacky ideas. This 70 page book is the perfect blank canvas for you to track your progress and watch your drawing skills improve from start to finish.

Pacon® Art1st® Sketch Diary, White Drawing Paper, Medium Weight Sketchpad, 50 Sheets, 8.5 x 11 in. Durable cardboard cover 70 perforated sheets of paper per pack Medium weighted paper Suitable for ink, pastel, crayon and pencil Extra heavy chipboard back offers drawing support Acid and lignin-free Perfect for practicing pencil drawings Ideal for dry media Also works great for water colors arts and crafts Suitable for art class, theater set design, and other creative subjects Ideal for a visual journal How to Become Better at Drawing: 1. 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. 2. 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 UCreate 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. 3. 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 opposite 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. Use with other Pacon® craft supplies: KolorFast® Tissue Fadeless® Bulletin Board Paper Bordette® Decorative Borders Creativity Street®- Craft Basics, Glue, Scissors etc. Classroom Keeper® Storage and Organization Products GoWrite® Dry Erase Products Spectra® Glitter Spectra® Bleeding Art Tissue Art1st® Art Papers Art Kraft® Duo-Finish Kraft Paper Corobuff® Corrugated Paper Trait-tex® Yarn Let's connect! https://pacon.com/ Facebook - paconcorp Pinterest - Pacon Youtube - PaconCorporation