Sketchbook with your own hands - how to make, materials, accessories

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:47

A sketchbook is a special portable case for an artist. In it, usually creative individuals carry paints, brushes, a palette, sheets of paper, pencils, crayons, an eraser and a lot of little things. Its store options are very expensive, and there is no difficulty in making a sketchbook with your own hands, especially if the master has experience in joinery or carpentry with wood and plywood.

To work, you must have a hand tool: a saw, a jigsaw, a grinder (in the absence of the latter, you can simply use sandpaper - 80 and 100), a screwdriver.

The size of the case should be such that A-3 sheets, which are most often used by artists to draw sketches, can easily fit in it.

Required Materials

To make a sketchbook with your own hands, you need to buy slats or scraps of thick plywood, a sheet of thin plywood, or also agree and purchase half a sheet. This will be enoughenough.

It will also be necessary to buy a piano loop according to the length of the body and fastenings for a shoulder strap, so that the sketchbook can be comfortably carried on the shoulder.

To fasten the parts together, you need to pick up self-tapping screws 10 mm and 21 mm, PVA glue of a thick consistency, brackets for folding furniture doors so that the lid stays in place when raised.

Also consider how the lid will close - you will need a lock, latch or hook. For the surface of the sketchbook, you need to prepare a varnish, it is advisable to purchase furniture.

Drawings

Do-it-yourself sketchbook must be made according to the drawings. It's easy, just look at the sample in the picture below:

• The body is a plywood box 500mm long, 350mm wide, 60mm high.
• The same dimensions are used for the lid, only the height will be smaller - 25 mm.
• Plywood or wooden slats are used for the sides, 10-12 mm thick.
• For internal jumpers, you must also mark the required number of pockets on the drawing.

First, the frame of the cover and body of the sketchbook is assembled on screws. With their own hands, the lower and upper planes are marked and installed. They are cut out of thin plywood - 3-4 mm, so that the weight of the finished case is small. Use a saw or jigsaw to cut parts of the structure evenly along the contours.

Further, we carefully grind each part of the case. You can use sandpaper. First, the larger one is taken, then the smaller one.

Internal partitions

Before making a sketchbook with his own hands, the master should consult with the future owner of the case, how many compartments need to be made in it, what size they should be. Then, according to the drawing, the required number of partitions of the inner part of the body is cut out of thin plywood and fastened with self-tapping screws. Nothing is installed in the lid, as sheets of paper or drawing paper are usually folded there.

Fittings installation

First, connect the lid and body together with a piano loop. Next, a bar or furniture hinge is installed using self-tapping screws. When the artist paints, the lid is open and is supported by this hinge. A slight outward slope also helps.

Install the hinge from the inside of the lid to the side of the main drawer.

Then a hook is attached to the front side in the center so that the sketchbook closes and nothing falls out when being carried. There are also handles for the belt. To do this, you can use an old men's belt or a strip of thick canvas.

So that sheets of paper do not fall out of the lid, you can attach a thin plywood partition on hinges. And in the lid itself, make swivel holders so that it is convenient to attach a sheet of paper.

At the end, the product is varnished. After drying, you need to carefully process the surface again with sandpaper, and then open it with varnish a second time.

Now you know how to make a sketchbook with your own hands. Good luck!