What did a Grade 9/A** art GCSE Sketchbook look like 10 YEARS AGO? 🕵🏻‍♀️

I haven't looked in my old sketchbook for over 10 years!
Take a peek inside this Sherlock Holmes sketchbook that I created for my Art GCSE. See some real student art, including mixed media art, acrylic paintings, sketches, and my attempts at printmaking. As well as a final piece based on BBC's Sherlock.

[@tinka6468]

I love this, thank you for sharing! So many ideas, very inspirational. I actually never really liked typography in paintings, but your approach made me curious to look into that a little more ❤

[@mollyssketchbook]

Thanks so much! Yes I know what you mean. I was unsure on an aesthetic level but playing around with it and the added meaning it can bring was really fun!

[@jameshuntley9674]

Love all the experimentation and process! In the states, we have Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB)…both explore sketchbook techniques and methods for high school…you would have gotten a perfect score in those programs. Fantastic❤

[@mollyssketchbook]

Thanks so much! Yes I think it’s a good thing to teach- it’s really helped me to attach less importance to outcome and more to the process of creating which is a way more fun and healthy way of looking at art 👍🏼

[@kayleenwest]

Wow you had good instruction very early on. I studied classical painting at that age but in college here they told us to use a sketchbook but that was it! We saw no inspiration or had any idea of the function so it was a chore. It was only later in life as a professional illustrator I really began to utilise them and saw the value.

[@mollyssketchbook]

Oh that is interesting- such a shame they didn’t explain it better! I found it so helpful. I bet your sketchbooks are amazing now though 🤗 Illustrators have such amazing imaginations, I wish I could turn words into images in such creative ways. It’s one of the things I’d like to try more I think.

[@kayleenwest]

@@mollyssketchbook yes do experiment with that. I used to be very literal and couldn’t do anything out if my imagination until I focused on children’s illustration and character designs. After a while it was amazing what manifested from the end of my pencils! So fun and freeing too. I bounce back and forth from the two now - loving and appreciative if both.