Tag Archives: vol 008

Food Sketches Week 27

I finished volume 21 and decided I’d continue to sketch the food. To go along with the Sketching Now group run of Sketchbook Design I plan to focus on improving my page designs to make the pages more interesting.

When I took the Sketchbook Design course in January of 2022, I had collected a number of “recipes” for this size sketchbook, specifically with the intent of using for food sketches. These were drawn from Liz’s food diary pages, which was my original inspiration for how I wanted to keep an illustrated food diary.

Food Sketches Feb 2021

Sketching your food everyday is like sketching boot camp. It was also a great way to get back into the daily sketching habit. (I did very little sketching during 2020.) My aim was to work fast, get my color mixes as accurate as I could, and, of course, record the moment. Most of these I sketched after I ate, from photographs, since I haven’t yet mastered the self-restraint not to dive into the food when I’m hungry!

I find that sketchbook design elements really do help these pages come together. The frames, the text, the date heading. I shall be working with those elements more for the next food sketchbook.

This sketchbook is a Stillman and Birn Alpha softcover, 3.5″ x 5.5″. I’m probably ready to move to a larger size, but I have this size already for the next one.

I do confess that these sketches, and the preponderance of the Buff Titanium that is my flatware, gives me the urge to buy more colorful plates!