Graphic obsession
A monthly experimental sketchbook
illustration
Graphic obsession:
A monthly experimental sketchbook
Date
– 2025
Client
– Personal project
Role
– Illustration
Every project begins with research. For me, it often begins with a sketchbook.
Each month, I choose a theme, sometimes a material or a graphic constraint and explore it page after page. Double spreads become a space for experimentation, where drawing is less about producing a final result and more about observing, testing and discovering new possibilities.
This ongoing practice, which I call Graphic Obsession, is a way to nurture my visual thinking and keep my design reflexes alive.
The sketchbook acts as a laboratory. Within its pages, I explore multiple graphic approaches around a single subject. I test compositions, distort shapes, experiment with tools and materials, and push color combinations until the idea feels exhausted.
Some pages are precise and structured, others are spontaneous and intuitive.
Together, they form a visual exploration where curiosity drives the process.
Through repetition and variation, the sketchbook becomes a space where ideas evolve freely.
Beyond the sketchbook itself, Graphic Obsession plays an important role in my broader design practice.
By exploring visual ideas freely and regularly, I continue to build a personal graphic vocabulary that naturally informs my work in illustration, editorial design and digital projects.
It keeps my creativity active, encourages experimentation and allows unexpected visual directions to emerge. In a way, it is both a playground and a training ground, a place where observation, experimentation and creation meet.
