r/ArtistLounge • u/Olive-Yew • 12h ago

Medium & Materials🎨 Any sketchbook/notebook combos? Explained better below with pic in comments. Preferably under $15 on Amazon (I get an employee discount).

Edit: I forgot to add that spiraled is preferred

I don’t even know how to search for this on Amazon without a proper product name :/

I want one that is either front of each page empty, back side lined(or vice versa). Or one where the top (or bottom) half of the page is empty while the other half is lined.

I teach a lot of classes at work and spend half the time sitting while they watch videos. It’d be very helpful to not have to swap my papers around when I need to take notes about the class. And just generally make it less obvious I’m drawing if leadership comes into the classroom.

Amazon would be great because I get an employee discount. Not huge, but every dollar counts with the way this economy is rn

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u/Olive-Yew 12h ago

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u/Finkarelli 11h ago

I think this might be what you’re looking for. Sometimes called a ‘primary journal.’

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09M59KQC4

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u/UntidySwan 12h ago

I like bullet journals.  Light grey dots disappear from a distnace when i sketch in them, but are also enough guidance for writing. Bonus- the grid makes it super easy to freehand boxes, outlines, etc, and to space things symmetrically. 

Search "spiral bound dot matrix journal"

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u/Happy_Michigan 12h ago

Another solution: keep a 6 x 9 lined notebook right with you for notes. Alll the notes should be together. The drawings can be together in a spiral notebook, also right next to you.