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Needed a new sketch-book, small enough so I can easily carry it around. So why buy something, when you can build it yourself ?
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The cardboard is solid enough to allow sketching when no hard surface is available.
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Thick, leather lacing is used for binding the pages and the cardboard cover.
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Using this sewing style the sketchbook thickness can be whatever you need.
The down side of this build is that once you open it, closing is a little tricky. But this can be turned into a motivation factor for you to draw more.
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