Last year I set up a new illustration blog called ooh nice, originally as a sort of illustration scrap book for me. Since January I’ve been looking after it in earnest and posting illustration, drawing and animation links on a daily basis.

If you would like to see your own illustration or sketchbook included on the site, please contact me on the ooh-nice site.

I’ve also set up a second twitter account (because really one is never enough, is it ) and if you’re interested in Illustration you can follow me here.

Illustration by IC4 Design.

I’d warmly welcome any comments and suggestions. The new blog is just a baby and I’m sure it will go under several changes and face lifts, but I’d love to hear from you.

There’s nothing quite like viewing other artists or designers sketchbooks to help you feel inspired. Whether it’s a sense of guilt because you haven’t been doing as much drawing as you would like to, or maybe it’s seeing a little bit of the world through someone else’s eyes that gets you excited, or maybe (as in my case) you would just love to be able to draw like this. And it’s nice to look at something NOT created in Photoshop or Illustrator. (Only for a little while though!)

There are tons of lovely sketchbook sites on the web but this is a list of 10 sites dedicated to the art of sketching while travelling or on holiday, in cities and the country. Some of these sites are collaborative efforts so you get to see lots of different styles. All images are copyright the artist.

1. Urban Sketchers

2. Trumpetvine Sketchblog

3. Travels With A Sketchbook

4. Sketchcrawl

5. Craftmonkeys

6. Marcellus Hall

7. Jane Tomlinson

8. Michael Kluckner

9. Roland Lee

10. Taccuino di Viaggio

Please feel free to add your own favourite travel sketchbook sites. I’d love to see them.