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I hate when journals/sketchbooks get published. I've seen books that are "inside the sketchbooks of the best graffiti artists" or the "authentic, unedited journals" of a musician or something. They look really cool because they've always got that grungy, handwritten style. But journals and sketchbooks are not for publishing.. they're not to be show-offish or to be used as a model for someone else's journal/sketchbook. I hate published ones because I feel like people pick them up and say, "oh wow, look at how GOOD this is.." Sketchbooks are not supposed to be.. glorified. Publishing it defeats the whole purpose. A sketchbook is like an artist's brain puked onto paper. Not finished, sometimes not even started. When they get published, it makes other artists feel like theirs somehow isn't good enough. Or it makes it seem like a sketchbook has to be really good, every page.