Notes

Journal making
Great way to make interesting sketchbook
Ian McQueen sketchbooks
Play with different things in your page, heads floating around even buildings, it shouldn’t be reports it’s just piling up different ideas in one space. Random robots walking and jumping all that stuff.
3-5 pages of journalism add notes and word bubbles too.
Street sketchbook.
Fun wacky observations bed off real life. Open up your mind and imagination, but still use the reference. You know, add anything you observe. Don’t go into fnanart though, add notes and all.
5:19 is perfect example of what you want to make. Build your sketchbook like this, it also helps make portfolio work.
Don’t cut and paste drawings onto sketchbook, draw directly
Try to enjoy yourself with these pages. Drawings don’t have to be good, it just needs to fill up the page.
You can do blind contours and add things to it. Anything goes
James Jean creative book.
Floaty heads maybe drawn from life, and then add foliage to fill up the space.
It’s nothing too serious put on some nice music, maybe even show your silly zany side, keeping add things, so it’s not just one drawing.
Don’t get overwhelmed, try to play to your good abilities.. Make sure your write your notes, the smaller your notes, the better as it becomes part of the background. Think of your sketchbook as a daily journal. Try to always use reference.
Real life nature gives you a very good color design, it’s all about color scheme.
Nurture your taste and build your color pallet. So get art you really like, gather images, when you learn design in black and white, it helps a lot when you start to add color. Photoshop is very useful with color but don’t let yourself get overwhelmed. If you have any problem with color, don’t use color and do black and white. Tim burton is good example of this. Ancient cultures help give you tasteful colors, they give you a lot of inspiration. You can use a cultural images of a guide.
Look at classic black and white photography, it helps you with light and shadow.
Veronique meinguad art
Again James Jean color pallet is also really good.
Drawing from film also really helps. DLC player helps to get photos from video.
Moulin rouge, Fantasia, Lawrence of Arabia, Bambi, sleeping beauty. Yellow submarine, conan the destroyer, visions of light (highly recommended for artists), gone with the wind, night of the hunter, blade runner, aliens, alien 3