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The sketchbook that started it all


Back in 2011, I started making home-made sketchbooks. It's also when I started capturing my daily life in small comic panels in my sketchbook as I went about my day - something I still enjoy practicing years later. This sketchbook is the first in a series of 3, where I kept up this daily life comics journalling from cover to cover.


I've carefully scanned the pages of this first book and turned it into an eBook and it is available for download on my Payhip site HERE.


All the pages are in full colour. Each page is 150mmx 211mm. There are 38 pages altogether including the covers. Plus, the images are in high-resolution (450dpi) so you get maximum details.


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MiataGrrl said…
I just finished reading Sketchbook 1. Whenever i make diary comics, I always imagine that no one would want to read the mundane, boring details of my ordinary, daily life. Yet I found myself captivated by your ordinary, daily life! And the charming way you draw people. I feel encouraged to write more mundane diary comics! :-) Also, I'm interested in your PDF format for distribution. The image quality seems better than publishing on the web. If I ever write enough comics to put into a book, I think I'll probably do something like a PDF, too. Thank you for your inspiration! By the way,mI just learned about haiku comics! Now I'm trying that, too! LOL!

- Tina
10:19 AM, May 21, 2024
drewscape said…
Hi Tina, you were the first one to download it. Thank you! I think the same thing : who would want to read my mundane life? haha. But for mundane life comics I think it would be interesting to see how well the author tells the story. And, like urban sketching, we get to see how another person sees the world, which can be very different from how I see the world. Learning to bring that out more clearly and in more interesting ways is the challenge that makes it fun.

I tried ePub but the output layout kept getting messed up. But for PDF, although it seems common, can carry images well. And I can also save it in a super high resolution so people can zoom in. If it were a web comic online, it would be a lower resolution. So this option works well for me for now. Are you putting your haiku comics up on your blog?
10:54 AM, May 22, 2024
MiataGrrl said…
Thanks for your reply! I agree with all of that -- I have already become better at writing more succinctly without excess words of explanation.

No haiku comments on my blog yet -- I'm just getting started -- but it's very challenging fun, so I hope to make a small collection some day... maybe an e-book of some kind! :-) Thanks for all you share. I'm learning so much from your blog and YouTubes.
11:02 AM, May 22, 2024
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