Abstract: An artist's sketching device wherein a sketch pad is bound to a back which presents a viewing window positioned adjacent the pad. A transparent sheet secured to the back has an upper portion over-laying the window, and a lower portion which is liftable so that pages of the pad can be placed beneath it and any single page upon it. Upper proportioning lines displayed in the upper portion of the sheet define sections of the window. Lower proportioning lines on the lower portion of the sheet are discernible through a page residing thereover to define areas of the page which correspond to proportionally similar sections of the window.

Abstract: An artist's sketching device wherein a sketch pad is bound to an oversized back which presents a rectangular viewing window positioned directly above the pad. The height and width of the window are in the same approximate proportion to one another as the corresponding dimensions of the sketch pad.