“How many sketches are enough to arrive at a final piece?”
Today, while rearranging the studio, we had the chance to revisit many sketches, drafts, and dummies from projects over the years. Some became final works, some were sketches for unfinished ideas, some prints belong to projects that no longer exist, and some will never take shape.
Each sketch is a story. Sometimes, it exists within a single small piece of paper. But more often than not, we go through dozens of prints, drafts, and drawings—just to tell one story in its most complete form.
I believe thinking cannot exist without paper and pen—perhaps the simplest tools that creatives like us always need. Because when we scribble unfamiliar shapes or write down words that no one understands, that is when a thought begins to take form. And over time, it becomes an essential part of how we approach our creative practice.
If creative works hold memory, then that memory lives in these drafts—kept, set aside, waiting to be told again, and sometimes to begin a new life, more complete than before.
“So, how many sketches are enough?”
— There is no such number.
