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Where bad ideas go to become good ones, smudge by smudge.
means A pad of blank paper bound for drawing, sketching, or jotting rough ideas before they're refined.
from A straightforward compound of two older words. "Sketch" came into English in the 1660s, borrowed from Dutch "schets," itself from Italian "schizzo" — a rough draft or splash — which traces back to Latin "schedium," an impromptu work, and ultimately Greek "skhedios," meaning "done offhand." "Pad" is a humbler, hazier word, likely from a Low German or Dutch term for a cushion or sole, which softened into the notion of a stack of soft paper. Bolt the two together and you get a place built for the offhand and the unfinished.
- low stakes
- Costs nothing to ruin a page
- thinking tool
- Hands often figure out what brains cannot
- da vinci
- His notebooks mixed grocery lists with flying machines
- eraser optional
- Wrong lines guide the right ones
autodesk sketchbook — digital drawing app acquired by autodesk in 2011, used by concept artists at studios like pixar
moleskine cahier — italian paper notebook brand founded 1997, favored by illustrators and designers like dieter rams
procreate dreams — ipad animation app by savage interactive, launched 2023, used by animators worldwide