"Note book after note book after note book because I feel sick when I forget potentially good ideas. I don't slack, I take photographs, I draw, I scan, I photoshop." Paul Davis makes a very good point here, if you wake up in the morning after an inspiring dream and don't write/draw it down you are going to forget it, what a waste. That's why as artists we have sketchbooks for collecting images, quotations, leaves, flowers, interesting crisp packets even over herd conversations that we feel could make an amusing illustration. Not only are they used for collecting but just simply for doodling as well.
An interesting sketch book to look at is one by Akino Yoko http://www.flickr.com/photos/stellaimhultberg/sets/72157619755892466/ She has many sketchbooks which she carries around with her as you can see from the link. They are only small pocket sized book because that's all they need to be, you can not critique a sketch book because it is just for personal inspiration, the images in there are meant to be judged. They are not pieces of art, they are the sketches which leads to the piece of art.
"If you start with nothing you have to invent everything from scratch." This would be like being handed a brief which is blank, how are you supposed to create something from nothing? The sketchbooks leak into our work a clear example of this would be http://stellaimhultberg.com/Sketchbook_set.html again from Akino Yoko you can clearly see how this small sketch has worked its way into http://www.flickr.com/photos/24949554@N07/5062780476 even as you go through her sketch book more you can see the Idea adapting, changing colour, media and becoming a different idea to how it started. It is important to practice different medias because if you don't experiment you can not progress. I will finish by saying that if you don't collect it, you wont understand it and it will never become part of your research.
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