I have this habit since my teen age. In thouse days i learned the drawing and cartooning courses through postal coaching . I grasped this point by those lessons. I might complect fifty or sixty sketch books.To become a good artist or cartoonist or illustrator one should have the sketchbook habit. The sketch book is a light white paper book , with a handy sixe, A4 or smaller then it. having a thick a pad under and a thim rapper above. its pages may be at about a hundred. They may be ordinary thim white papers . It must be easily carryable At our leisure time we can carry it and draw the sketches of the object what ever we see in front of us, vehicles , houses, trees, animals or the human beings.
For this kind of drawing we not do use the pencil and eraser. We use sketch pen. we draw ink lines directly without drawing pencil lines. Because there is no such a time on the road or in the open area. We may draw the sketches by standing . Don't fear about the wrong lines. we get correct lines by practice. we take a few minutes for each sketch. In those days i used pencils for sketching because then there were no sketch pens. Now we have many varieties of sketch pens- Gel pens, cello pens and metal tipped pens etc. You can use any of tham . The ink lines of the sketch pens do not fade. Pencil lines fade after some time. I hope this exampie helps the amateur artists by inspiring them to sketch the out doors. I gathered these sketches from about fifty sketch books of mine.
T.Venkat Rao.
