I take a sketchbook almost everywhere I go. There are a variety of sketchbooks out there, and lots of options for making your own. This video introduces you to various types of sketchbooks (artists journals, visual journals) , and also ways to use your sketchbooks. There is a short landscape demonstration at the end of the video. I hope to create a more detailed landscape sketching tutorial after I return from some adventures. Sorry I speak way to close to my phone and it makes a loud puffing sound:( Enjoy!

Here are some Ideas for your sketchbook

bookmarks for the school library
junk food with wrapper
part of a vehicle
instead of a hand... your foot ( no socks or shoe)
something not pretty
an interior of something (once a student did the inside of a jar of peanut butter)
inside of closet
3 unlikely objects together
part of any object ( mystery draw)
a scene that depicts peace
perspective drawing of your house
Draw yourself as a super hero
Illustrate the news
Use your toes to draw an object
Make up your own language and write a poem in it
Illustrate your name as if it were the name of a sixties band
Illustrate your favorite poem
Draw what you will look like in 40 years
Draw all of your family members
Copy a masterpiece using crayons
Draw your favorite pair of shoes
Make a pocket in your sketchbooks and put a letter in it you wish someone would write you
Design an outfit using pen and watercolor
Draw your favorite animal
Draw one of your favorite sculptures
Learn a new drawing technique online and try it out in your sketchbook
Draw your self portrait
Draw a landscape from observation
Draw a shiny object
Draw animals from life
Try three new techniques on a page of your sketchbook
Draw a can
Create a series of drawings of people in motion
Try drawing a shirt, or piece of fabric
Draw from your imagination
Draw an egg in the shell, fried and over easy
Draw popcorn
Draw water moving
Find a quiet place, draw the quiet
Draw the view from a window
Draw a piece of fruit
Draw something you like to eat
Draw a chair
Paint the sky in your sketchbook
Paint an animal using all of the colors on the color wheel
Make a drawing using maps
Use text to make a picture of something
Make a pop up in your sketchbook
Paint a page with acrylic paint and then draw over it
Draw your dream
Draw a piece of fabric
Draw cleaning supplies
Draw your best friend
Make a stencil of you and your best friend

This tutorial was created by McCall Johnson
Mr Otter Studio LLC