Drawing

We've rounded up the best tips, ideas, and techniques from artists for keeping an art sketchbook and using it often.

Watercolor sketch by Elizabeth Osborne

Keep a sketchbook. You probably heard this advice in your first art class. Years later, maybe you think youre past the need for an art sketchbook. Or you think its only for people who primarily draw and not for painters like you. Maybe the habit has just gotten away from you, and you have a stack of beautiful unused sketchbooks. Or (and this might be all of us) you now surrender potential sketchbook moments to…