Small Sketchbook for Big Ideas

My first piece to enter the real world!

So I love to doodle, ask my teachers. A lot of the time, I doodle out ideas that eventually become bigger things. Now that school’s out for summer(*alice cooper plays in my head*), I thought I’d make this small pocket-sized book for doodling in. After figuring out the dimensions I wanted, I made my design in illustrator using basically only rectangles, circles, some pen tool, and a whole bunch of pathfinder and transforming. I actually started with the text spacing and sizing. I then printed it on this brownish tan paper I found. Lastly I cut up some paper, folded it all in half, and stapled it. I think because the brown paper was a different texture, the ink doesn’t stay on it, so when it’s rubbed it becomes kinda faded. It looks cool, but very soon the design will be invisible . This small sketchbook idea and look was not my own idea really. I while back I had found a site selling a small sketchbook like this with a very cool vector design on it. I remember thinking “I could probably make my own” and have been wanting to do it for a while. I am very sorry, but I can’t find that webpage anymore, I’ve looked hard to find that online store where the guy was selling it. I thought I had bookmarked it. If anyone finds the link please send it to me!