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  • noun Plural form of sketchbook.

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Examples

  • Many artists record what they see in sketchbooks — follow the line, pen or pencil.

    emmett johns | word & image « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • Many artists record what they see in sketchbooks — follow the line, pen or pencil.

    May « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • Everyone painted, drew in sketchbooks, ate meals together, sat around talking late into the night, watched a documentary about Robert Williams, and even played an cool alternate reality game that began in the catacombs of the hotel.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • The sketchbooks were a matrix, names and nouns were less tied to the way they looked on the page space than to the sounds I heard in my head when I put them there.

    marcia hafif, susan howe, minimalism, monochrome, meditative work Lemon Hound 2006

  • The sketchbooks were a matrix, names and nouns were less tied to the way they looked on the page space than to the sounds I heard in my head when I put them there.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Lemon Hound 2006

  • That interested me, because as I said before what I loved about the sketchbooks were the changes that took place over time, how the mind would be interested in certain grays for awhile then yearn for deep blacks and then for free easy lines.

    A Conversation with Don Nace 2005

  • That interested me, because as I said before what I loved about the sketchbooks were the changes that took place over time, how the mind would be interested in certain grays for awhile then yearn for deep blacks and then for free easy lines.

    Archive 2005-07-01 2005

  • That thing pounding helplessly going "be a nose" is how I feel my creative process works. and the sketchbooks are a doorway into that process.

    Panels and Pixels 2008

  • Nice and TALENTED - he gave me one of his convention sketchbooks which is amazing.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Roger Langridge 2010

  • Nice and TALENTED - he gave me one of his convention sketchbooks which is amazing.

    Heroes Con Wrap-Up Roger Langridge 2010

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