I'm so glad you enjoyed!

No! I visited for my friend's wedding. I had no idea that pen brand was common in India. I've had it for years - long before I visited! That's really cool though

@ it is actually a French brand . But very commonly available here

Have you ever tried the hardcover Strathmore ones? They come in all sorts of paper styles. I've got several meself of the watercolour, mixed media, and grey toned mixed media paper styles. I find them to be quite high quality and the hardcovers are very lovely. They hold stickers very well too, as I love to collage me sketchbook covers with stickers. On the outside I do larger stickers of artists I know and/or follow on social media. Then the inside covers I collage with smaller/tiny stickers. I don't leave a single space on the inside covers free. 😂 Anywho, I hope you find an aesthetic sketchbook you like m'dear. x

@ellyettepaige ooh I don't think I have, but I do love Strathmore! I use their hot press for my paintings. I'll have to look into it! The sticker collages sound like so much fun! Thank you!!

@@JasmineZellmer Welp, if you are familiar with their paper n' love em already, then there's no doubt you'll love their hardcover books. Me favourite are their watercolour hardcover books. Although, I do feel like they're kinda fancy, so I tend to do more finished pieces in those books versus just rough sketches or something ya know. A thousand apologies for me rambling luv! And no thanks needed m'dear! 😉

@@ellyettepaige no worries, I love a chance to talk art! I have the same problem with fancier sketchbooks, but I'm trying to get sketchier with 'em!

@@JasmineZellmer Almost every artist I run into has the same issue. That they are trying to be more loose with their work and actually do sketches in a sketchbook lol. Old habits are hard to break! I recently did a rough sketch n' some doodling of a piece I wanna do all finished up n' such. I found it easier to sketch out something I had a plan for, versus going into me sketchbook without an idea in mind. Because that's when I start to gravitate making it a more finished piece. I figure if I get in the habit of doing that, it'll make me more used to doing rough sketches in there and then perhaps force me to be more loose with other things. I don't think there's anything wrong though with having the sketchbooks that you do more loose work in and then the ones you do more finished pieces in. Right now mine are finished works and then the others are a mixture of finished n' loose work. And I like it that way to be honest. I don't think I'll ever own one that is all loose work. I do have a couple of art journals though and those are where I strictly just play. They're the books I have where I don't really think when creating. It's a playroom for me. Just like you would go and write in a journal or diary, I create artwork in mine. I guess you could call it m'own version of loose in a sense. I just try to turn me adhd brain off for a wee bit and let me hands take control. And here I go rambling again...I am so sorry m'dear. I don't really have any mates or anyone to chat about art with, so when I get the chance, I tend to babble away. I'll shush up now! Thank you for the lovely chat. 💜💙💜 I so do appreciate it luv. xxx

your mom is good. <3 LOL