The fashionable word "schobbuk" is tightly entered into use. Although many do not even imagine what it is and is called a fashionable word, everything you can write or draw - from notebooks for notebooks. In fact, the sketchbook is an autonomous independent concept denoting something like an album for sketches. Consider this question in more detail.
What is a schobbook?
If you understand more detail, you need to start with the word translation of the word. Skotchbuk - the word of English origin consisting of two parts. The first - Sketch is translated as a quick sketch of hand, sketch, the second - Book - as you know, even to those who have nothing to do with the English language - the book. That is, in general, the schobbook is a book for sketch.
Previously, before this concept appears, any items created specifically for sketches and were called - an album for drawing, a folder for sketches of a notebook for sketches The appearance of the word "schobbuk" combined these concepts into one. In the main sketchbooks, artists enjoy, drawing lovers, those who have any free minute of their time dedicate to create another sketch.
What does the schobbook look like?
Skotbuki usually have a view of a notebook, notepad, notebook or album. They are performed in various formats, from a small pocket A6 to a sufficiently cumbersome A4. The sheets of the sketchbook are not multiplied and can have different density. If you say simple, the sheets of sketchbook resemble sheets from a drawing album or watercolor paper.
Now, when the fashion is to have a sketchbook with him, reached a peak, their manufacturers pay great attention to the cover design, trying to make it stylish, fashionable and noticeable.
How to choose a sketchbook?
Of course, if the sketchbook is not selected as a fashion attribute, but as a tool for work, then you need to know a number of principles for which professionals usually choose:
- The first thing to pay attention is the density of the paper. It can be from 70 to 300 grams per square meter. Why is the paper density so important? It all depends on what the sketch will be made: pencils, handles, watercolor crayons and whether the paint will be done above the drawing. If it is a gouache, then enough and minimal density, and for watercolor it is better to choose a sketchbook with more dense sheets.
- The format is also of great importance. If the sketchbook is designed for miniature sketches, then you can do the formats A6 or B6 - this is half a format of the usual school notebook or notepad. If more large-scale work is assumed, then it is worth considering such a format as A4.
- The following criterion is binding. It may have a book species - that is, the sheets of the sketchbook are connected by a completely serious solid fastener, as an ordinary folio, and in this case it is assumed that the drawings will be stored in the sketchbook. Then there is an option to fasten the sheets of the sketchbook - gluing. Sheets glued together with such glue, which makes it easy to separate them if necessary. And the third version is the spring - here the leaflets from the sketchbook can be easily snored.
- The brand is the case of the personal taste of the test of the sketchbook. Although, now the release of sketchbooks in the world of printing is not engaged only lazy, so the choice is huge.
SkotchBook is a convenient thing that you can take with you and make sketches at any time anywhere without carrying overall albums and folders for drawing.