UCreate Black and White Sketchbook, 12′ x 9′ Drawing Notebook, 60 Sheets

Exercise your creativity with this UCreate Poly Cover Sketch Book! Each sketchbook contains 60 perforated sheets of 73 lb heavyweight drawing paper, perfect for doodling, designing and coloring. Its perforated sheets easily tear out so you can proudly frame or display your finished works of art. Its durable poly cover is bound with twin wire spiral binding to keep the paper from getting folded or crinkled. Its spiral binding lies flat for comfortable drawing and sketching, so you can take it with you anywhere! Acid free and lignin free, this white paper is ideal for drawing and sketching with dry media. This sketchbook of 12 inch by 9 inch, unruled premium drawing paper is the perfect blank slate for you to let your creativity reign.

UCreate Poly Cover Sketchbook, 12" x 9" Drawing Notebook, 60 Sheets

• Perforated sheets with wire binding
• Acid-free, heavyweight white paper
• Ideal for dry media, such as pencils, colored pencils, pens, and marker art
• Perfect school supplies for teachers and students
• Durable poly front and back covers for on the go art and creativity
• Use for sketch drawing or journaling
• Art sketchbook for children and adults
• Also available in 9-inch by 6-inch size drawing pad

How to Become Better at Drawing:

1. Learn how to hold your pencil: Place the pencil between your forefinger and thumb on your dominant hand. Try holding it about a fourth of the way up from the tip. For basic drawing, you don’t want to hold your pencil too close to the tip or you won’t be able to move it enough, while holding it too far back won’t give you enough control. Maintain a loose enough grip so that you can move your fingers, hand, and wrist.
2. Practice basic techniques: Practice drawing basic shapes freehand. A lot of what you draw is essentially made up of shapes like circles, ovals, squares, rectangles, and triangles. Your art will incorporate these shapes in different ways to form an image. Practice shading. Fill a sheet of UCreate drawing paper with 2 centimeter boxes and number them off. Leave the first block blank, then very lightly shade the first block. As you continue to each new block, make it a darker shade until the last box is colored in black, creating a shading gradient reference guide.
3. Draw what you see around you: The best way to improve your drawing abilities is going back to the basics! Find an ordinary object around you and begin drawing it. Look at how the light source casts a shadow on and around the object. You can tell where a light source is coming from because the shadow will be pointing opposite the light, and this will help you to understand how to shade an object and incorporate depth. Consider proportions and dissect the object into the basic shapes you practiced before.