Create Your Own Online Sketchbook/Portfolio!

I was looking for ways to get a 'sketchbook' online in a more intuitive format, and unfortunately until someone makes a digital sketchbook that you can use a Wacom with (how cool would that be!), the best bet is uploading previously-saved sketches. But let's say you want to have a complete sketchbook to link off of your site, just to show WIP drawings, or anything else.

By using a little site called Scrapblog.com, you can use a hands-on, drag-and-drop editor to arrange your images into a scrapbook. Sounds like it won't work? Scrapblog comes prepared with pre-designed layouts, and one of them is a sketchbook layout! And, if you want it to look even more like a true sketchbook, I'm sure you could find a true 'sketchbook page' background on the web.

WARNING: LINK IS NSFW (bewbies!)

Here's an example of what it can do. I just grabbed three of my sketches at random and plopped them into this pre-made layout. I took out some of the extraneous decorations, changed the text to be relevant (the 'signature' is even my name!), and whipped this up in only about 10 minutes of playing around. I'm sure you could make some lovely looking things with this by spending more time. You could even use this for a portfolio. And for those of you who enjoy digital scrapbooking, I'm sure you could make a use for it.


http://www.scrapblog.com

ROzbeans 18 years ago
Oh shoot, that is pretty friggin cool. Nice find, Sinned! Oh I moved to the crayon box because this is where open chat about art goes =D
SinnedAria 18 years ago
Doh, sorry about that, wasn't sure. Thanks for moving that!
Wystro 18 years ago
That is too cool!
Mai 18 years ago
That is really neat and the transitions are nice. Would you be using it as your main art blog or doing it in addition to a blog or webpage?

On a similar note, photobucket allows you to make slideshows that I believe you could copy and paste into a website if you've already got a website that you'd just like to add something to.

Here's a quick one of those done with my FF entry.

SinnedAria 18 years ago
Just in addition to. I actually use Coppermine for my main gallery. http://www.ck-designs.net points there right now, though there's only game design stuff up right now. Still trying to fluff up my portfolio!

Mainly I was looking for a 'flipbook' kind of way to post sketches, since I won't post those in my portfolio for obvious reasons. But I wanted a 'view my sketchbook' link to take the viewer to an emulated sketchbook, where they could turn the pages. There's a guy who did that with Flash, but that's waaaay beyond my skill. It was really cool though. For the time being, I'm just waiting until one of the online whiteboard/artboard places makes like an online sketchbook where you can keep all of your sketches, and sketch right into it using your Wacom. -That's- what I really want.
Mai 18 years ago
The flipbook look would be neat. Being able to sketch straight to an online sketchbook/blog would be awesome! Sort of the next step for Oekaki boards. :bunny2