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Leon Leung's avatar

I feel like if you do portrait, you could work on a spread of two portrait pages side by side, if the binding allows for it. Whereas two landscape side by side is really only useful for a panorama.

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William of Zeno's avatar

Ooh, yeah, good point. It depends what kind of compositions you want to create. On the flip-side, you could do some interesting stuff with long, narrow compositions whether horizontal or vertical. And get more flow and time passage if you want to do some storytelling across a long composition.

I'm going to be doing a simple binding with flash card rings, so maybe doesn't work so well with taking advantage of the spread...(but makes it easy to take out or add in pages)

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Leon Leung's avatar

Oh yeah, my last sketchbook had ring binding and I don’t think I attempted any spreads. I’m guessing you’ll be doing many a landscape with that watercolour paper as well, so it sounds like that would be a better fit.

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