Although much of my work in sketchbooks is about recording what I see around me, the artwork serves other purposes too, including mock-ups, or quickly executed studies, often prepared to help clarify something for myself or to explain something to others, or simply just to save time, enabling me or them to make an informed decision as to where to go next. They are rarely a record of something I see and they usually involve design. My aim is to expend as little time and effort as possible on them, while trying to ensure that what is sketched contains the key elements of a possible final product.
Working in a sketchbook helps to tune my mind to a quick approach, since no mark feels sacred and I can easily make changes to layouts that don’t
