Two types of items, to preserve sketches:

Sketchpad or Sketchbook, made by a Bookbinder (no idea how many commodities or what skillrank would be appropriate) - allows you 15 or 20 pages to sketch on, in the same way that you would sketch normally, but without the bulk and decay times of individual sketch sheets.

Mire flips her sketchbook open to a fresh page and begins to sketch the image of an ugly purple butterfly.


If this next one seems too overpowered, perhaps it could be an artifact or require a ridiculous amount of commodities.

an Artist's Sketchbook - allows 15-20 pages on which to sketch, same as before...the catch here is that the book amplifies your skill somewhat, so you can use individual sketch sheets later to make more sketches of the sketches in the book. For example, if I wanted to make a statue of that giant serpent's maw, I would probably be chomped up and spat out before I could get six sketches in. Supposing I had someone agree to reflect me while I made one sketch, I would sketch it in this book and hop merrily back to Prime, where I could then copy that same sketch five more times and have all the necessary sketches for a statue.

Mire flips her sketchbook open to a fresh page and deftly begins to sketch the hideous thing eating the Megalith, wisely drawing it from several angles for later reference.


EDIT: Also, I think this post should stay in Idiots, if only because I'm an idiot myself for mixing this forum up with Ideas. But seriously, could someone move it?

EDIT: Fixed.

Wow you beat me to making this post. I've wanted an artifact sketchbook for as long as sketching has been an ability. I think its good how you've described it above.

Thumbs up, this is a great idea.

Suggested this a while ago, would be wonderful to save sketches for further use.

That's what shop stockrooms are for


Still, it would be really nice to have this as an artie.

Not crazy about the idea of sketching other sketches, though the sketchpad is a good idea.

Yeah, not really. *glare*

Better idea... WOODCUTS!

Artisan skill:

CARVE WOODCUT FROM
2 wood
Create a woodcut out of a sketch. This will destroy the sketch, but the woodcut has longer decay time.

Bookbinder skill:
PRINT PAGE WITH
This must be done to a blank page of a book. The page will then permanently contain a woodcut of the scene, person, or object depicted.

Example page:

This page contains a detailed woodcut of