sketchbook

or sketch book

[ skech-book ]

noun

1. Also . a book or pad of drawing paper for sketches.
2. a book of literary sketches.

sketchbook

/ ˈskɛtʃˌbʊk /

noun

1. a book of plain paper containing sketches or for making sketches in
2. a book of literary sketches

Word History and Origins

Origin of sketchbook¹

First recorded in 1810–20; sketch + book

Example Sentences

Sketchbook brings professional-level digital drawing tools to your device.

From Popular-Science

Bring a sketchbook and draw pictures along the way, or photograph interesting plants.

From Outside Online

Strathmore sketchpadThe kind of sketchbook you’ll need will depend on what technique you’re experimenting with, but if you’re starting with the basics, with this sketchpad by Strathmore you’ll be more than set.

From Popular-Science

This version includes 1700 guess words and phrases, as well as eight dry, erase markers, sketchbooks, cleaning cloths, and one 60-second timer.

From Popular-Science

That was right around the time Stamaty began what would become a lifelong habit of wandering the streets of New York and putting what he saw in his sketchbooks.

From Ozy

But the Sketchbook Project confines itself to restricting only submissions that might endanger the staff.

From The Daily Beast

Instead, your $25 entry fee gets you a sketchbook that appears handmade.

From The Daily Beast

The Sketchbook Project is trying to change our relationship with art.

From The Daily Beast

As such, there is a vulnerability to the narration of An Armenian Sketchbook.

From The Daily Beast

Hicks travels with a tiny loom, the way other artists carry a sketchbook or point-and-shoot camera.

From The Daily Beast

He visited us at Thorpe several times, and was unusually well and in good spirits, with sketchbook or folio always in hand.

From Project Gutenberg

Do not the following memoranda—accompanied in the sketchbook by numerous studies—show how the deficiency was to be supplied?

From Project Gutenberg

In our judgment they are those, which occupy the last leaves of the sketchbook (Petters) partly filled in the Spring of 1809.

From Project Gutenberg

This sketchbook contains first of all the two new finales for the opera.

From Project Gutenberg

It is heard of again in a sketchbook of 1798, where there is a melodic phrase adapted to the words, Muss ein lieber Vater wohnen.

From Project Gutenberg