My 8th grader loves art, for his art class it said they would need a sketchbook they could decorate cover of, little did I know it meant they were making one in class, so I ordered this sketch book for him. He loves it and being able to customize it and express himself is an amazing way to nurture and cultivate his creative and artistic abilities. Like mother and grandmother like son/grandson he inherited the natural artistic ability of myself and his grandmother it just comes naturally and art classes just hone out natural abilities and teach techniques to make our art even better. This is now the perfect gift for his artistic outlet to draw what he wants when he wants I plan to buy him more art supplies and definitely going to choose Eugene Toy and Hobby first before the art store in town.