As someone who is interested in almost everything and processes my thoughts and feelings by drawing them, using my sketchbook as an almost diary would only be a matter of time. After a long day it's very relaxing to just wind down and draw about what happend. It also is very fun to collect cards, receipts and other stuff to paste in my sketchbook. I don't do this as often as I used to in the past but I really want to get into it again. It's also just very therapeutic and as an art school student I could use some therapy :P. This sketchbook is also just a fun way to get to know me better because of the little comics and what I do in my daily life. 

This sketchbook started of as a schoolworkshop where we went to different museums and drew about what we thought was interesting. It was a small group and we just kind of split of all the time so I was just drawing stuff and walking around in the museums by myself but I had a great time! It really inspired me to just go off on my own sometimes and try new stuff. 

It's very fun to see myself grow up when I look back at my old sketchbooks. So yeah these are very dear to my heart. I'm just making art for the heck of it without any intention to make it good or pretty. I just think this is very pure art. Just making for the sake of making. And I still struggle a lot with keeping some of my art and emotions private and as a hobby versus keeping stuff purely for myself. A couple of teachers also already warned me for this but I still tend to do it. But the older I get the more I find balance between work and free time (which still is very difficult as an artist). But to have sketchbooks like this which aren't for school and I only share the sketchbooks when I want to, it's very nice. Many of these pages are made 1 year ago so I feel comfortable with sharing it, but they were only mine for a long time. I feel like a kind of openness is very important for empathy but I also need to protect myself. But yeah, maybe one day I'll figure it out. 

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