Complete, ongoing, empty

Over the years, I've drawn in sketchbooks of many makes and sizes.
In concept, I love the consistency of sticking to a single paper type and size.
Yet exploring different brands and sketchbooks is required to find which paper and format you enjoy best.

Each sketchbook suits a different type of drawing and moment, some for travel, some for home, some for watercolor, etc., which means I have multiple unfinished sketchbooks.

To avoid checking each of my sketchbooks individually to know which is which, I recently sorted and tagged them with rounded color stickers that signal their status: red for completed, green for ongoing, and yellow for empty.
On top of the color sticker, I name sketchbooks serially, starting with the year I started, followed by the sketchbook number in that year, e.g., 2024.02 for the second sketchbook I started in 2024.

I have sketchbooks of various brands—Moleskine, Stillman & Birn, Hahnemuhle—and sizes—A3, A4, and A5—organized in a tiny shelf on wheels, which also houses my Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-300 printer.

Most of my sketchbook pages are scanned and stored on the cloud, and many of their drawings are edited and published, but many still need to be.

The point is to minimize the creative friction by seeing at a glance which sketchbooks I can draw in.