Ugly on purpose.
Most sketchbooks make you feel like you should fill them with something good. This one doesn't. The imperfect cover, the "mess here" footer on every page… it's all designed to get your hand moving. No warm-up. No excuses. Just draw.
Pick your cover.
The Ugly Sketchbook, Cover A
The Ugly Sketchbook, Cover C
This sketchbook is for you if…
You want to draw but every blank page feels like a commitment you can't keep.
You already draw, and you need a place where nothing has to be good.
You're looking for a gift that actually means something, for a creative person who's hard to shop for.
One ritual. Zero pressure.
Every copy opens with a prompt: draw something deliberately bad (a potato with a hat, a sun that's melting, whatever), then tear out the page. The sketchbook is officially ugly. The block is gone before it starts. That's the whole idea, and it's not in any other sketchbook we've seen.
"The page is already ruined. So you can begin."