Delusions & Musings

Dealing with large sketch sets?
last modified: Friday, April 20, 2007 (8:56:37 AM)
I really feel like I'm not cut out to be a sketch collector. I love skecthes, but, generally speaking I'm happy to have one sheet or two. Too many more than that and I'm annoyed. I do find it very intersting to see the changes from sketch to sketch and get a good feeling for the creative process that took place. However,I dislike keeping so many sheets. Spreading a 20 sheet set into a cel book seems sort of silly but if I don't store them individually I can't view them easily. If I can't view them easily, I feel like what's the point in owning them. Not to mention I've never been fond of close sequence mates (IE shots with 1 or 2 sequence numbers between them) and a sketch set is often basically a bunch of close sequence mates.

So, what often happens is that I/we buy large lots of sketches keep maybe one sheet from each cut and pass the remainder along via various means. But, I get a bit of guilt about that as I'm breaking up a complete animation because of my own preferences...

So to those collectors with large sketch collections especially if you collect shows which only have sketch sets available how do you deal with them? Keep them all? Keep a few? Find someone to split with before ever purchasing them? something else?

I'm just looking for ideas, as I'm sort of feeling like there has to be a better way of going about it.


~Stephanie

re: Dealing with large sketch sets?Friday, April 20, 2007 - 9:17:30 AM
JWR

I know what your talking about. In my case I will pick the best to display here in my gallery and in a cel book. The rest I keep together stored in one of the plastic cel boxes I recieve my Rinkya shipments in.


KEEP ''EM ALL! MUWAHAHAHAHAHA!!Friday, April 20, 2007 - 11:35:43 AM
Leah

heh heh
Yeah, that''s just me. I''m more than happy to get my hands on a stray sketch or two. But I''m also happy to have a full set. Not having a full set doesn''t diminish my joy of the subject. ^_^

And to each their own. ~_^ Do what you like, because it''s you that has to like it. Not us. We do what we like. And enjoy the fruits of everyone''s labor in their respective galleries.

*HUG*
Difference is the spice of life. ^_^


To Each His Own...Friday, April 20, 2007 - 12:09:17 PM
birdie

I like to keep all my sketch sets together because sometimes when I''m feeling ambitious I animate them. I know what you mean by the storage problem they cause, but for me it''s worth it. I prefer complete cuts if I can get them, but I''m willing to settle for single sheets if that is all that''s available.

BTW I store mine in those plastic boxes dealers used to ship in. I couldn''t begin to store them in books - the largest one I have is over 50 pages of douga alone. @.@


re: Dealing with large sketch sets?Friday, April 20, 2007 - 12:47:34 PM
jlbair

I do pretty much the same thing as JWR. The only difference is that I have purchased archival boxes to store them by series.


re: Dealing with large sketch sets?Friday, April 20, 2007 - 1:58:50 PM
Linake

I keep them all, regardless. (I get awkwardly clingy to all my sketches, so I could never break up a set)... I''ve got one sketch set that covers about 7 animation cuts, and it''s about 120 pages. XD
As for storing them, if they''re standard sized or slightly oversized, I''ll keep them in cel-books. (I''ll usually pick a couple favorite pages from the set and stick the others in behind those few, which saves on book pages.)
For huge, oversized sheets I''ll just store them in a large cel bag or large folder. If the sketches (layouts, for example) have any folds already in them prior to buying, then I might fold them there again to make it easier to store.
Hope this helps! ^^;;;


re: Dealing with large sketch sets?Friday, April 20, 2007 - 2:27:23 PM
galexia

If its a favorite character and a very important scene, I''d be more apt to keep it together. If its a fairly normal scene, or it is of a character that I like (but not a favorite), I would probably be more apt to keep a sketch of her (if I really like it) and then make the others avalible to people to purchase. At least that way, multiple people can enjoy it, instead of me hording a sequence where I only really and truely want one of. Although, I suppose I would feel bad, and probably offer the person a photocopy of the one I''m keeping so that way they can at least still have it as well in a manner of speaking. As for storage, up until recently I had them all in a cel book. Now, I''m only keeping the best ones (or one shot of a sequence) there. Also, I am temporarily storing the rest in celbags till I can purchase some mylar bags or something of a simular nature. The largest sketch set/cut I have is currently not photographed/scanned. I''d estimate its rougly 15-20 sheets not counting the roughs. Its for anything recent.


re: Dealing with large sketch sets?Friday, April 20, 2007 - 2:31:05 PM
galexia

Sorry I ment "it''s not for any of the recent anime shows." So basically, do what you feel is best, and don''t feel trapped by what you might feel others expect of you. It would be horrible to feel like you''re forced to keep tons of things you don''t want simply because you believe everyone else might feel that way. :( I hope that helps.


re: Dealing with large sketch sets?Friday, April 20, 2007 - 4:37:00 PM
pudge031791

Unlike everyone else that has responded, I only care to collect genga. I usually only keep the genga in a sketch set, and usually sell the douga sketches. However, I won''t sell individual sketches, only the enires douga set. I do have a few genga''s that I still have the douga for, but mostly they are A1End sketches, and I just keep the set together if that is the case.


re: Dealing with large sketch sets?Friday, April 20, 2007 - 5:50:06 PM
Shemp

I try to keep them all, but I don''t mind when other collectors sell individual sketches from a set, because then more of us might be able to get a piece of that scene. I haven''t broken up a sketch set yet, but I might if I was really happy with just one of the images.


re: Dealing with large sketch sets?Friday, April 20, 2007 - 5:55:27 PM
RatioKiller

I can understand your problem, storing them and the desire to display them all can get difficult if you own so many sets. What I personally do is this. I buy two sizes of mylar one is 11 1/2 by 12 (2 mil mylar) and another 4 mil 10 by 13 mylar. I store all the sketches you see in my gallery in 4 mil mylar and then they go into ITOYA books. The rest of the sketches, copy layouts, rough genga, time chart, etc go into the larger 2 mil Mylar and I store them in archival boxes under my bed purchased from dicksblink art. This has been working for awhile now however I am slowly looking to find a shelving system to store the sketch boxes in as I have 6+ under my bed and am running out of room to place the boxes. Now within the boxes I have 2 that are designated for the douga (each set i have on my site have corresponding douga, some douga I scan so I am to lazy to scan i might try and get them all up someday.) Now I don’t see myself ever selling any pieces of the set only because then i would feel that someone out there has the same things in my gallery.. What i mean is, if sold the sequence mates I would feel that my gallery sketches wouldn’t be unique because the same sketch is out there in another gallery… You can call me stingy but really half the fun of collecting is knowing you have a cel/sketch that no one else has. Buying and owning a full sketch sequence assures that no one has any sketch from that sequence, which I think rocks, my suggestion to you is do what you wish. Everyone collects differently so there is no wrong way to collect.


re: Dealing with large sketch sets?Sunday, April 22, 2007 - 6:46:29 PM
klet

I''m not much of a sketch collector, but I would prefer to keep sets together--especially genga sets.