Hey cafel! The sketches in my book are all things I doodled in my spare time and liked enough to fix up, color, and have printed. You’ll see when you get it, but the back of the book says, “My Escape is a collection of sketches done in my free time, whenever I felt like I needed an escape from the real world,” hence the title hurhurhur. Having time to draw freely is really precious to a lot of working artists, so my sketchbook is a labor of all the things I love to draw… which is mostly my OCs and D&D characters. ^^;; If there is a theme to it, that is it. 

For the process of assembling, I looked at other sketchbooks I really liked and how those artists put their books together. Then I arranged my finished pages based on things like colors and how pleasing everything looked together.

If you want to make one of your own, I’d suggest getting other sketchbooks and artbooks from several of your favorite artists and making something of a hybrid of all the qualities you like about them! Maybe you like the size of one sketchbook, but you don’t like the paper. Maybe one artist writes a lot about their process, and another writes nothing at all, or one has a solid theme and the other is all over the place. It really depends on what you want to do, but having a collection of books from the people who inspire you is a great starting point. I hope this helps, and good luck! And thanks so much for getting my first sketchbook. T u T;;