How to Reflect on Your Sketchbook (and Find New Ideas)
If you’ve been filling sketchbooks over the winter months, you might be wondering what comes next.
For me, this is the perfect time of year to pause and reflect. As spring arrives and things begin to shift, it’s a chance to look back over what I’ve been making and start noticing the ideas that are quietly emerging.
In my latest video, I share how I review my sketchbooks and works on paper, and the simple process I use to pull out threads to take forward. It’s not about judging the work or having a clear plan - it’s about paying attention to what’s already there.
I use a small set of reflection questions to guide me. Things like: what keeps coming up again and again, which pages feel most alive, and what might happen if I pushed one idea a little further.
It’s a gentle way of working, but it can be surprisingly powerful. Often, the next step in your creative process is already sitting in your sketchbook - you just need to slow down enough to see it.
If you’d like to try it for yourself, you can watch the video and download a free set of sketchbook reflection prompts to use with your own work.