If you have been thinking of creating a sketchbook, or if you've already started one, you'll find valuable and inspiring new ideas here. Packed with creative examples and encouraging words, Ideas & Inspirations for Art Journals & Sketchbooks will get you going with examples of sketchbook pages to inspire you, information to help you and techniques that will make your sketchbook meaningful. Artist and author Suzanne McNeill reveals everything you need to know to become an accomplished sketch-journalist. She shares insightful tips on choosing a subject, sketching from life, layouts, lettering, covers and much, much more. You'll soon be creating your own one-of-a-kind personal books to record personal memories, as you sketch travel adventures, friends, designs, ideas and events. Your sketch-journal will be wonderfully revealing and uniquely yours, the perfect place to capture a moment, track the changes in your life, interpret your experiences and just have fun!