Good topic...I enjoyed it. I always have sketchbooks lying around but when my life is hectic, I don't get to them. Am leaving my job in less than a year so I' hope to be making more use of them again soon. Like you, I put everything in...words, images drawings, momentos...as you rightly said...it's for yourself. My camera is also another way of tracking real life images or phenomena that catch my eye or attention. One place I always take a sketchbook is on holidays and Yes..spiral bound is best!
Good topic...I enjoyed it. I always have sketchbooks lying around but when my life is hectic, I don't get to them. Am leaving my job in less than a year so I' hope to be making more use of them again soon. Like you, I put everything in...words, images drawings, momentos...as you rightly said...it's for yourself. My camera is also another way of tracking real life images or phenomena that catch my eye or attention. One place I always take a sketchbook is on holidays and Yes..spiral bound is best!
Lucky you!! Yes, you have a huge amount of material to harness later ... or maybe the drawings and photographs are the art in themselves 😁
I think Visual Diaries are also called Art Journals - do you keep one? I used to have to hand mine in for assessment, which is horrifying to me, lol!
I have some sketch books around, which I use when I want to create something. I think I'm too messy to keep a real diary!
Yes, that is a Visual Diary!! You don't need a 'real' diary for creative ideas, as artists by nature are visual thinkers 😁