The Sketchbook: an Archive of Your Creative Processes

Learn to document and elaborate an illustration project by using your sketchbook as a personal archive

Aleix Gordo Hostau (@aleix), considers himself a cartoonist first and foremost and is known for his comics, designs, murals, and illustrations for international clients such as Nike, Converse, Vans, Porsche, and Amazon, among others. Despite having unlimited access to tools, services, and applications that enable creatives to carry out their professional work, Aleix believes that ‘people nowadays feel more and more disorganized and digitally disconnected than before.’

As a freelance artist, being organized is a must. Sketchbooks are making a comeback as an artisanal tool, bringing life and work together, and becoming, as Aleix describes them, ‘the mother of all creative processes.’ In your sketchbook, you are also free from any ties. In his Domestika course, Sketching for Illustration Projects, Aleix guides you to a final illustration project (in his case, a mural) developed through an artist’s sketchbook.

See how to use this essential tool below and learn how it can help you complete your final project.