A first-time collection of Grayson Perry's sketches, Sketchbooks follows the evolution of his career from art school to the present day. Where you elect to do so, you accept that you grant to us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence (at our sole discretion) to publish and use all such content (or any part of it, which may be edited, cropped or otherwise modified by us at our discretion) in any way and at any time on the site. When I managed to set up my first ceramic studio, in 1986, all my creative energy became focused on clay.

It is the place to make mistakes – they are cheap in time and materials; those initial marks often tell me in a few strokes whether an idea is a goer or a dud. Perry’s drawings are beautifully detailed, essentially a colour study of the final product, you would definitely know what you would get from one of these drawings. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

I think my attitude towards the sketchbook originates from when my grandmother gave me a little stack of very cheap notebooks. I have to feel I have developed an idea enough before committing to the labour-intensive version – beginning with postage stamp-size doodles, through to double page full-colour layouts that may take several hours. Like one of my artistic heroes, 40:492" title=""40:492" title="">40:492"40:492" title="">Henry Darger, I often heavily worked both sides of each leaf, with no thought as to how I might display – let alone sell – these works.

Unfortunately is most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. One game we often played involved inventing a character, then drawing their family, then their house, car, holiday destination, etc. In the early years after college, sketchbooks were a way of keeping my practice going, as I had no other creative outlet; and I put several hours into each image, giving the books the obsessive, private quality of outsider art.Antenne Books is committed to protecting your privacy and will only use the information we collect about you lawfully. I feel this makes the sketchbook seem very personal despite the drawings being so well planned and executed, themselves like finished artwork. Your statutory rights shall remain unaffected by these Terms and Conditions, and except in accordance with these Terms and Conditions all purchases are non-exchangeable, non-refundable and non-transferable. They understood that students would often choke when laying out their ideas in a larger, more finished form. This could be a technique I consider to begin with to give me space to add personal notes as it is something I feel quite hesitant and reluctant to do but the space would also force me out of my comfort zone.