Black sketch pad — for sketching, jotting down notes, exploring forms, and preserving the initial traces of a work.
A black-covered notebook, designed to accompany sketches, workshop notes, composition trials, journaling, project landmarks, or initial ideas before a more developed piece.
Its beige pages provide a softer background than pure white paper. They are suitable for pencil, pen, graphite, annotations, light sketches, dry collages, and everyday visual explorations.
The sewn binding provides more stability than a simple glued notebook. The closed format protects the pages and allows fragments, quick drawings, words, references, and preparatory trials to be kept together.
This notebook is not designed for very wet washes or heavy watercolor. For ink or wet techniques, first test on a page to check the paper's behavior.
Features
Item: Sketch pad
Use: Drawing, sketching, workshop notes, journaling, visual research, writing
Binding: Sewn binding
Inner paper: Beige double offset paper
Number of pages: 96 pages
Recommended techniques: Pencil, graphite, pen, light fine-tip marker, dry collage, annotations
🤍 Ikane Workshop Tip
Use this notebook as a space for exploration rather than a final medium: quick sketches, lists of forms, title trials, stroke ranges, text fragments, or project landmarks. For inks, do a test at the end of the notebook before writing on a double page.
