One of the best tools that any creative person can have is a sketchbook, but it is also one of the most difficult tools to make into a habit and I say this from experience.
For many years I have tried to use various sketchbooks but I have always done it occasionally and in the wrong way because I intended my sketchbook to be a notebook full of little masterpieces, but the truth is that from this perspective, a sketchbook is completely useless. And utopian.
It was only when I decided to change my perspective that I managed to make it a habit and that it really started to help me improve as an artist.
Here are some tips to make it easy for you too.

1. Choose a notebook that meets the following characteristics:

• It should be the most economical possible, we often feel intimidated by notebooks that we love and are expensive.
• It must be adapted to experimentation with various materials, so it is preferable that it have sheets of no less than 160 gr.
• It should have a size that you can take everywhere or if you prefer, you can have two, one to work from home and another smaller one to always carry with you.

1. Don’t think of your sketchbook as something you want to show, think of it as a notebook to learn, where you can make all the mistakes you want, you can experiment with sizes, techniques, subjects, etc.
2. It is essential that you allow yourself to make mistakes, this will be a notebook where you can look at your progress, that is why it is important that you do not tear off the pages if what you were doing did not turn out the way you wanted, this way you can learn from your mistakes.
3. Choose a time during the day where you have time to dedicate yourself to your sketchbook and set a minimum period of time.
4. Decide what you are going to learn in your sketchbook, if you want to be inspired by what you have around you or if you prefer to have portraits or photos for reference; In the latter case, continually look for references, so that you are never left without having to draw.
   If you are starting out and have no idea what to draw, I advise you to draw what you have at hand; But if you are already oriented towards a certain type of subject, my advice is that you focus on it and start studying it and improving your technique.
5. Allow yourself all the experimentation you want, combine elements and techniques, ask yourself how this will look combined with that, what happens if I change the sizes, if I change the normal colors of an object, if I do everything with a single color, etc.

The sketchbook is very useful if you approach it this way, because it allows you to grow, learn, improve day by day and you will see that in a short time you will begin to see improvements in your technique, you will begin to like your drawings more, you will come up with ideas for As you find your style, what you draw will begin to look more and more like its reference.