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