Sketchbook Experiments with Steph Fizer Coleman

Steph, can you give everybody a little background about your design/illustration career and teaching business?

How often do you use your sketchbook? Are you solely analog on sketching? Do you ever start sketching on the iPad or in Photoshop?

How often in the past few years have you used your sketchbook to experiment with a new style or try something new?

Do you have different sketchbooks at one time? How do you use the different ones and why have multiple?

If you were going to a meeting or doctor’s appointment would you carry your sketchbook? How would you use it in those situations? (Do you carry multiple with you at one time?)

How often do you go outside or out of your home to sketch?

What are you experiementing with in your sketchbooks? What are you practicing?

When do you take it out of the sketchbook? What does your process of creating a final piece look like?

What happens to these experiements and studies after the final work is created?

How do you decide what gets executed outside your sketchbook?

Do you work in scenes or complete compositions in your sketchbooks?

How often do you return to your old sketchbooks for inspiration or ideas?

How do you deal with making bad art? Is your internal voice nice or mean?

What has been the biggest epiphany that came as a result of having a regular sketchbook practice?

What is next?