When I was a design student, there was a particular sketchbook I loved to use. You could only buy it at two places in the entire country, and sometimes they would sell out. It was meant for children, and the cover had a cute, colorful drawing of happy zoo animals, so it was more suitable for a kid to carry to kindergarten than for a teenager to be seen drawing it out of his bag in public.
But I absolutely loved it.
It was the texture of the paper, which was recycled. It had a rough, unfinished quality, and I loved the way it felt on my pencil. Every other type of drawing paper felt too smooth to draw on, but this paper was entirely inviting. I remember spending the entire month of one of my school holidays at the library, just sketching my way through a book.
That sketchbook with the colorful cover taught me one thing: when you use tools you love, you’re inspired to do more.
MUJI 0.38mm gel ink pens, another tool I love that inspires me.
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