List of sketchbooks, scrapbooks, journals, travelogues reviewed

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Sketchbooks from individual artists, and misc

• Sketching Outside: An Illustrated Guide to Making Art on the Go (2026)
• Chiara Di Francia sketchbook vol 2 (2026)
• Master Sketchbooks: Legendary artists of the entertainment industry reveal their secrets (2025)
• J.A.W. Cooper Genesis Collection (2024)
• SRD Sketch Collection Vol. 03 by Scott Robertson (2024)
• Figured Out by Rembert Montald (2024)
• Sketch.Box: Bjorn Hurri (2024)
• Sketch.Box: Somnath Pal (2024)
• Iain McCaig's Once Upon a Time in the Sketchbook(2024)
• Sketch.Box: Abigail Larson (2023)
• My Travels in Japan: A Comic Book Artist's Amazing Journey (2022)
• Mateusz Urbanowicz Uncollected Works 2010-2021 (2022)
• Creations Vol 1 & 2 by Derek Laufman (2022)
• Character Design Collection: Fairy Tales & Folklore (2022)
• Kanttuschen – Night Sketches in Kantstraße by Rolf Schroeter (2021)
• Mike Mignola: The Quarantine Sketchbook (2021)
• Making Marks: Architects' Sketchbooks - The Creative Process (2019)
• Brighton: Watercolour Memories by Isabel Carmona Andreu
• Random Imaginations: A Collection of Illustrated Musings by Eddie Chau (2018)
• Kim Jung-Gi 2018 Sketch Collection (2018)
• All My Photographs Are Made With Pens (2017)
• Extended Psychoneurosis by Foo Swee Chin (2017)
• Food Swings: An Illustrated Travel Journal by Doodlenomics (2017)
• Masters of Sketching (2017)
• Botanical Sketchbooks (2017)
• Pep Talks for the Would-Be, Should-Be Artist (2016)
• Claire Wendling: Forget Me Not (2016)
• Sketchy Stories: The Sketchbook Art of Kerby Rosanes (2016)
• The Line Art Challenge: 100 sketches for 100 days (2016)
• Keeping Sketchbooks (2016)
• Art of Kian (2016)
• Sketching Times 2: Inspiration from Artists Sketch Collection (2016)
• The Art of Sketching: 400 Years of Travel Diaries (2016)
• Pen & Ink: Contemporary Artists, Timeless Techniques (2016)
• Start Sketching Start Drawing by David Tsnen (2016)
• The Sketch-Book Cook (2015)
• The Third in Line (2015)
• Fantastic Cities: A Coloring Book of Amazing Places Real and Imagined (2015)
• Hand Drawn Halifax: Portraits of the city's buildings, landmarks, neighbourhoods and residents (2015)
• K Sketchbook Volume 3 & 4 (2015)
• Superbelle Sketchbook One & Two by ArtGerm (2015)
• Jean-Baptiste Monge Sketchbook (2015)
• Mediterranean Cuisines by Santi Sallés (2015)
• Omphalos: Kim Jung Gi Sketchbook (2015)
• Daily Zoo Vol 3 (2015)
• Frazetta Sketchbook, Vol. II (2015)
• A World of Artist Journal Pages: 1000+ Artworks | 230 Artists | 30 Countries (2015)
• Sketchbook: Composition Studies for Film (2015)
• Sketching Times Vol 1 English edition (2015)
• Inkworks: Darren Quach Sketchbook Vol. 01 (2015)
• Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor by Lynda Barry (2014)
• A Bowl of Olives: On Food and Memory (2014)
• Drawn to Drawing by John Vernon Lord (2014)
• An Excuse to Draw: Tommy Kane Sketches the World (2014)
• Tim Bradstreet: The Sketchbook Series Volume 1 (2014)
• A Book of Drawings by Ian McQue (2013)
• PARADOX: A Painting Exhibition catalogue (2013)
• Sketchbook: Slow and Steady 慢漫来 by Chang Lip Wei (2013)
• Andrea's Book (2013)
• The Second in Line (2013)
• ImagineFX Sketchbook (2013)
• Freehand: Sketching Tips and Tricks Drawn from Art (2013)
• 速写时光 2 with 30 Artists (2013)
• 速写时光 (Sketching Times sketchbook) (2013)
• RocketRaygun: The Art of Kelvin Chan Volume 2 (2013)
• Pepita: Takehiko Inoue Meets Gaudi (2013)
• Kim Jung Gi 2013 Sketch Collection (2013)
• K Sketchbook Vol 1 (2013)
• Animation Sketchbooks (2013)
• The Frazetta Sketchbook (2013)
• Animal Nature: The Art of Joe Weatherly Volume 2 (2012)
• London, You're Beautiful: An Artist's Year (2012)
• Problematic: Sketchbook Drawings 2004-2012 (2012)
• A Kiss Before You Go: An Illustrated Memoir of Love and Loss (2012)
• Robert Crumb: The Sketchbooks: 1981 - 2012, 6 Vol. (2012)
• Mattias Unfiltered: The Sketchbook Art of Mattias Adolfsson (2012)
• Comics Sketchbooks: The Private Worlds of Today's Most Creative Talents (2012)
• Shuffle 06 - Structures (2012)
• The Daily Zoo Goes to Paris (2012)
• Sketchbook Confidential 2: More Secrets from the private sketches of 38 master artists (2012)
• Singapore Sketchbook (2011)
• Shuffle 05 - Character Design (2011)
• Sketchtravel (2011)
• Wasserfarben für Gestalter (2011)
• Kim Jung-Gi 2007 & 2011 Sketch Collection (2011)
• Bengal Sketchbook (2011)
• Dave Stevens: The Complete Sketchbook Collection (2011)
• Mico Suayan 2011 (2011)
• Ray Toh Ideabook 2011 (2011)
• Drawn In: A Peek into the Inspiring Sketchbooks of 44 Fine Artists, Illustrators, Graphic Designers, and Cartoonists (2011)
• Artist's Journal Workshop: Creating Your Life in Words and Pictures (2011)
• The First in Line (2011)
• 男の絵日記―15分で描くライフスケッチ (A Guy's Art Diary: 15 Minutes Life Sketch) (2010)
• Obsessive Consumption: What Did You Buy Today? (2010)
• Paul Davidson: Unpublished Artworks of an Extraordinary Nature (2010)
• Alex Sheikman Sketchbook 2010 (2010)
• The Bird King and Other Sketches (2010)
• Graphic: Inside the Sketchbooks of the World's Great Graphic Designers (2010)
• Sketchbook Confidential: Secrets from the private sketches of over 40 master artists (2010)
• Aim High, Keep Moving! (2010)
• Rocketraygun: The Art of Kelvin Chan (2010)
• Shuffle : Tome 4, Robots (2010)
• Planet to Planet: Creatures and Strange Worlds (2010)
• Shuffle 3 : Carnet de croquis (2010)
• Mut zum Skizzenbuch: Zeichnen und Skizzieren unterwegs (2009)
• The Beat of Urban Art (2009)
• Keatopia Sketchbook (2009)
• Daily Zoo Year 2: Keeping the Doctor at Bay with a Drawing a Day (2009)
• Sketch Book for the Artist (2009)
• Joe Weatherly Sketchbook Volume 1 (2009)
• Passion for Life (2009)
• Brain Trust by Peter Thompson & James Kirkpatrick (2009)
• 1,000 Artist Journal Pages: Personal Pages and Inspirations (2008)
• Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! (2008)
• Les Carnets d'Alger 2 by Catherine Rossi
• The Daily Zoo (2008) FAV
• Sonny Liew's Secret Robot Spy Factory (2008)
• 4:00 AM (2008)
• What It Is (2008)
• An Illustrated Life (2008) FAV
• Street Sketchbook (2007)
• Visualizing Ideas: From Scribbles to Storyboards (2006)
• A Year in Japan by Kate T. Williamson (2006)
• The Black Frog's Doodles (2006)
• Daphne 01: Sketches of Daphne Yap (2006)
• Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art (2005)
• Postsecrets (2005)
• Peter de Sève Sketchbook (2004)
• The Will Eisner Sketchbook (2004) FAV
• The Goblin Companion: A Field Guide to Goblins (2003)
• Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself (2000)
• How to Make a Journal of Your Life (1999)

3Dtotal Sketching From the Imagination

• Sketching from the Imagination: Character Concepts (2023)
• Sketching from the Imagination: Magic & Myth (2022)
• Sketching from the Imagination: Storytelling (2022)
• Sketching from the Imagination: Anime & Manga (2020)
• Sketching from the Imagination: Creatures & Monsters (2019)
• Sketching from the Imagination: Dark Arts (2018)
• Sketching from the Imagination: Characters (2017)
• Sketching from the Imagination: Sci-fi (2015)
• Sketching from the Imagination: Fantasy (2014)
• Sketching from the Imagination: An Insight into Creative Drawing (2013)

Urban Sketching

• Days in Japan: Sketch by Sketch by Arnaud De Meyer (2025)
• Sketching Stories by Ian Fennelly (2024)
• LUXEMBOURG sketch by sketch by Arnaud De Meyer (2023)
• Remains of the Journey by Jörg Asselborn (2022)
• The World of Urban Sketching (2022)
• Finding Your Inspiration by Ian Fennelly (2022)
• Layers of Looking by Ian Fennelly (2020)
• Paul Heaston Sketchbook 2019-2020 (2020)
• A Week Sketching in the Galapagos (2020)
• La Kopi sketchbook by Alvin Mark Tan (2020)
• Secrets of the Traveling Sketcher (2020)
• An Urban Sketcher's Galway (2019)
• Seville from Top to Bottom by Inma Serrano (2019)
• A Small City by the Sea: An Artist's View of Portsmouth, New Hampshire (2018)
• Urban Sketching: 9 days in Sri Lanka (2018)
• Garis: An Anthology of Sketches by Johor Sketchers (2018)
• Urban Sketchbook Band I: Skizzenbuchseiten von Urban Sketchern im Deutschsprachigen Raum (2017)
• The Alhambra Sketchbook by Luis Ruiz (2017)
• Hola, Miró!!! A Travel Sketch Journal by Swasky (2017)
• Barcelona Rooftops by Miguel Herranz (2017)
• Dare to Sketch: A Guide to Drawing on the Go (2017)
• Manchester Sketchbook (2017)
• Oliva Illustrated Guide (2017)
• Barcelona - Original: The Sketching Lover’s Companion (Sketching on Location) (2016)
• The Urban Sketchbook: Get Out, Walk, Observe, Draw, Lose Yourself, Create (2016)
• Urban Sketching Old San Juan - Puerto Rico (2016)
• Paris, je t’aime.: An Urban Sketchbook (2016)
• My Journey to Machu Picchu, Peru (2015)
• Drawn: The Art of Ascent (2015)
• Here & There (Again) (2015)
• Impressions of Wine Country (2015)
• Let's Draw! Singapore (2015)
• Nepal The Art Book by Bernat Moreno (2015)
• The World is so Big: Art Artist's Sketchbook by James Tan (2015)
• 傘下速寫 (Sketches Under The Umbrella) (2015)
• Cuba, an 56 de la Révolution: [Carnet de voyage] sous embargo (2014)
• Lapin au Japon: Tokyo-Osaka-Kyoto-Nara (2014)
• CIao Firenze! by Alvin Mark Tan (2014)
• Show Me Manila! in 101 Sketches (2014)
• Everywhere I Went, My Sketchbook Was Sure to Go (2014)
• Urban Sketching The Freedom Trail: Walking and Sketching Boston's Famous Trail (2014)
• Urban Watercolor Sketching: A Guide to Drawing, Painting, and Dreaming in Color (2014)
• Have Phone, Will Paint (2014)
• Sketching Guantanamo: Court Sketches of the Military Tribunals, 2006-2013 (2013)
• Now Where Was I? A Sketchbook Memoir by Steven Reddy (2013)
• Wil Freeborn's Sketchbook: Selection of Drawings and Watercolours Made in Scotland (2013)
• Una mirada a Sarrià (2013)
• Sketching Guantanamo: Court Sketches of the Military Tribunals, 2006-2013 (2013)
• Enjoy, Gaudi sketchbook by Swasky (2013)
• Drawing Around Sagrada Familia by Nina Johansson (2013)
• Freehand Drawing and Discovery: Urban Sketching and Concept Drawing for Designers (2013)
• GALICIA EN TREN by Jorge Arranz (2012)
• A Week in Venice by Liz Steel (2012)
• Lapin à Carcassonne Agglo (2012)
• Lapin à Istanbul (2012)
• CADIZ en 360° (2012)
• Hotel Sketch Mike Sketch: Hotel Rooms + Travel Sketches (2012)
• Singapore Neighbourhoods sketchbook series (2013)
• Thirty Days on the Camino (2012)
• Back Alleys and Urban Landscapes
• Draw Occupy Wall Street (2011)
• Barry Herniman's Travelling Sketchbook (2011)
• Tombs pel barri Gòtic (2011)
• Sketches: From Here and There (2011)
• The Art of Urban Sketching (2011)
• Urban Sketchers Singapore Vol 1 (2011)
• Everything Is Its Own Reward: An All Over Coffee Collection (2011)
• The Artist on the Road: Impressions of Greece (2010)
• Los Viajes de Emily Nudd Mitchell (2009)
• All Over Coffee (2007)
• The Creative License (2005)

Travel journals

• Prague Sketchbook (2025)
• Hand Drawn Vancouver: Sketches of the City's Neighbourhoods, Buildings, and People (2020)
• Tokyo Travel Sketchbook (2020)
• All the Buildings in Paris: That I've Drawn So Far (2018)
• Sketch by Sketch: Along Nova Scotia's South Shore (2017)
• Anne Desmet: An Italian Journey (2017)
• Travels with my Sketchbook by Chris Riddell (2017)
• Explorers' Sketchbooks: The Art of Discovery & Adventure (2017)
• New York Sketchbook by Jason Brooks (2017)
• A Hebridean Notebook by Norman Ackroyd
• Barcelona: Five Routes for Sketching Travelers (2016)
• Walking TOKYO (2016)
• Gardens of Awe and Folly: A Traveler's Journal on the Meaning of Life and Gardening (2016)
• Watercolors of Paris (2015)
• All the Buildings in London: That I've Drawn So Far (2016)
• London Sketchbook
• Manabeshima Island Japan: One Island, Two Months, One Minicar, Sixty Crabs, Eighty Bites and Fifty Shots of Shochu (2015)
• Every Person in New York (2015)
• China Days: A Visual Journal from China's Wild West (2014)
• Meanwhile in San Francisco: The City in its Own Words (2014)
• Citysketch New York: Nearly 100 Creative Prompts for Sketching the Big Apple
• Hello, New York: An Illustrated Love Letter to the Five Boroughs (2014)
• Bahamas Sketchbook (2013)
• Venice: A Watercolor Travel Journal (2013)
• Meanwhile Back in Los Ranchos: An Illustrated Chronicle of Travel, Art, and Finding Home (2013)
• Voyage au Japon 2 Koya-San (2013)
• Drawn to New York: An Illustrated Chronicle of Three Decades in New York City (2013)
• A Paris Sketchbook: Jason Brooks (2013)
• All the Buildings in New York: That I've Drawn So Far (2013)
• An Illustrated Journey: Inspiration From the Private Art Journals of Traveling Artists, Illustrators and Designers (2013)
• Sketches of Soho: Scenes from the Back Streets of Old Hong Kong (2012, reprint)
• Voyage au Japon, Tome 1: Tokyo (2012)
• An Artist's Journey to Bali: The Island of Art, Magic and Mystery (2010)
• Singapore: A Walking Tour (2010)
• Shanghai: A Walking Tour (2010)
• Denys Wortman's New York: Portrait of the City in the 30s and 40s (2010)
• New York, Line by Line: From Broadway to the Battery (2009)
• Singapore: Sketches of the Lion City (2009)
• Sara Midda's South of France: A Sketchbook (2008)
• When Wanderers Cease to Roam: A Traveler's Journal of Staying Put (2008)
• Cambodia & Angkor: A Travel Sketchbook (2007)
• Alina's Travel Journal (preview) (2007)
• LA/SF: A Sketchbook from California (2006)
• Sights and Secrets Sketches and Paintings of Hong Kong (2003)