I've been working on this sketchbook since August I think
and I'm very excited to finally show you... it finished
so if you don't mind, I'll uh take you page by page
and show you a little bit of what I've made.
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First off, the cover of the sketchbook didn't come my way,
I drew it, thank you, thank you.
This is sketchbook 27 and this is the character I created
specifically for the sketchbook as you'll see when I open up
some of the preliminary brainstorming work to come up with that character
and the process I went through, I have a whole video on it
so I don't need to really talk about it but you can kind of see the gist of it there
and then this is the welcoming page.
On previous sketchbooks like usually this is like a different color
because this is like, I don't know what it's called
but it's like, you know, the first page which isn't really a page, it's glued to the front
so like I assumed this was the actual first page so that's it
and it's welcoming you to my sketchbook.
I'm really happy with this, there's a certain hint of like graphic design
that I quite, quite, I find quite, I am quite fond of,
there we go, got it out eventually
and the mascot of the sketchbook
continuing on this page with my start and end dates there.
Then we get into the first pages, we have, you guessed it,
sketches in this sketchbook and plenty of them.
These are a couple more personal ones
and these are just let's get that wrist moving
because I haven't drawn in a while sketches.
This was some brainstorming and like plotting work
for the cover of my bullet journal which I also drew on,
well, I guess colored but it didn't end up drawing on it
because the paper was weird and shiny.
Then I used a different kind of paper but that paper turned out really awful,
um, but I have a video on that, too.
Here I was drawing my parents for their anniversary.
I'm really happy with those,
there's something about them that just I really really like.
I also, I like this tiny little guy up here, something special about it,
it's not like what I would usually draw.
This was for my Zenpop box.
Some more of my parents,
some blub cats, blub fish.
Decided to draw some princesses and dresses.
I really like this one, there's a lot of movement in it which I like
and I also like the little bouquet one with the flippy hair,
that one's really pretty to me, too.
This I think was a video of drawing what Pinterest told me what to do.
Oh dang, that's like really reflected.
I'm gonna put this on something so it all looks nice
and you can see what I'm talking about.
Is that better? Can you see now?
The quick flip through, enjoy them, got it? Alright.
I really like the layout of this page.
I tried to really focus on the composition
because that was something I was able to control
whereas what I was drawing was more given to me.
This, I think I all drew while I was on the phone.
You got like funny cat girl, dude face, my dog.
I think this was a suggestion from a friend of mine.
Then we have some pen sketches that I really like
and then these little guys are from uh,
what to draw when you don't know what to draw video
and this guy's from a Zenpop which I had a ton of fun.
I drew him like a ton of times even more than in that video.
I kind of kept drawing him and he's just my little tiger in his white shirt
and he's adorable.
I think, did I film this one, too.
This was just like about sketching in pen
but I don't really remember what the like theme of that video was
but pen sketches and then this I like used a sticky note
to show how you can like correct a pen sketch
since you can't erase, you kind of gotta find your own ways to do that.
I like that little thing, a lot of expression in like just a couple lines
and I know it's supposed to be like this girl with her head on her shoulder
whereas you might not be able to tell what it was if I didn't tell you.
Oh I forgot about these, these are my characters.
We have Nathan, Nathan, Arlene, Nathan, Arlene, Arlene, Nathan, Nathan, Arlene,
random person no backstory whatsoever for her
but yes, they love each other, that's why there's a heart.
This was another Zenpop box I believe and this came in the box
and so then I was kind of drawing the character in my style
and kind of getting grasp for that.
I really like this squishy looking hair here, better than like sharp hair there
but I can see when I look over here that I did end up going with the sharp hair
so that's interesting.
Delicious.
Oh these were um my drawing monster cheerleader girls.
I had like a prompt list for October so we have quite a few of those.
I actually did videos on these two, for the span of this sketchbook,
I wasn't like drawing a lot outside of filming.
Well, here's some that I drew outside of filming another personal project.
There's the finish to that, you can't really make it out but it's a hippo
and we're just continuing some of the monster girl prompts.
I just, I've just felt exhausted this year.
I don't know if anyone else feels the same
but it's just like, I have to like plan ahead just to draw, it does,
I can't just be like, oh I've got time I want to draw, I like, in my time,
I want to just do nothing, I hope I'm not alone
and hopefully it doesn't last forever, it might just be a phase
but some more monster cheerleader girls, some more hippos.
I think I try to draw some kind of animal, this is a bit of a dead page
but I did glue another one of my tiger sweatshirts.
I really like this, I think this was another Zenpop inspired one
so you can see we've already been a couple months and not that many pages.
Yeah, I haven't been the most drawing drawer
but you know, you go through seasons,
sometimes you draw a lot, sometimes you draw a little less,
you know, depends on the season but I'm really happy with how that turned out
and I like this little monocle guy.
This is my character, Weelz, she looks a little different in both
and that's her, too and that's her there, too.
I do struggle with like drawing characters
and making them look like themselves,
like obviously you can like retain their certain features,
like, oh pigtails and the little ball hair tie things
but for the most part, like the face keeps changing
and that's something I definitely struggle with
but I really like this one, there's not much to it
but it just tells a story better than just blank face there.
Oh this was a video where I was turning Halloween candy into people
so we have three musketeers, butterfinger and M&M's
and if you want a little bit more backstory behind
how I came up with those ideas specifically, there's a video on it.
I don't like filming sketchbook tours when it's all things I've already filmed
but it happens sometimes but luckily these aren't,
these are some more Weelz,
you can see I was definitely playing around with how her face looked
and I really like that, I almost called that an ice skate, I mean a roller skate
and we have a couple faces on the right there.
I apparently did not like her legs because I covered them up
and I redrew the face here and I'm really happy with that smile,
something about it just like makes me want to smile.
Here I was drawing animals and then I was trying to draw them as babies
and then I was trying to draw them as like chibi forms as a baby
so you can kind of see the process of that,
so you can see like this one looks more like an adult, then I tried drawing a baby
then I'd try to draw pudgy, I like was trying to enlarge the head and the feet
and like shrink the other features, it worked pretty well for the most part.
I still think they just look like cartoon versions.
I don't think they scream baby just yet, especially that one,
that one doesn't say baby to me at all.
Definitely something I think I'd like to do again
because I want to get better drawing cutesy things.
Oh, this is when I like challenged myself to see how many animals
I could draw in a certain amount of time
and I had like a prompt generator and it would pop up different animals
and I had to draw them and sometimes I didn't have a reference, so yeah.
I think the zebra really does translate though,
like would you even think it was a different animal,
like if this wasn't labeled, you'd know exactly what it was, that's, that's amazing
and then the moose, really struggled with the legs
you can see on my four-legged guys
and then that continues onto this page [Laughs] this whale.
This, I think was some kind of mystery box, I don't remember which one
but this purple thing's apparently a Posca pen, in case you were wondering.
Oh, I love this page, this is one of my favorites
because I'm really happy with the way this turned out,
like this is all marker and then some like ah, glitter
and they shaped like little leaves, so cute
and now I got his nose and then that inspired these
and I really like this one, I really like this page.
I could probably spend a little longer looking at it
but we will continue.
Oh I was like what is this?
This was me designing this guy,
so this is an accordion sketchbook
so I like figured out how many pages there would be
and I planned it out what animals and then this is how it turned out.
We have the surface and then as you go deeper, the fish get bigger.
I don't know, look at the whale, I always liked the whale, he turned out awesome.
When you get down to the squid, you can see like the water gets darker,
you can see the gradient from light blue to dark blue,
yeah, that's what I was planning out right there.
Some more Weelz, apparently didn't like that face, I had to write oof.
I like this random use of washi tape, really matches the page, too
because of the colors.
I do some more bears cause like I was just like living off that high
of that marker one I was talking about, so yeah.
Here, I actually decided to look up references of bears
and kind of like have that influence the way I was drawing the little pudgy guys
so you can kind of see the small changes that happen
and then we have like a panda but yes,
I don't know, something about putting a sweatshirt on an animal
makes me so so incredibly happy, I love it.
This, I was designing a character based off of a candy cane
and I ended up calling her Cici because candy cane is a c and a c,
yeah, I know I'm clever, right?
I also used her for a 10 minute, 1 minute, 10 second challenge
and I think these are two 10 minute versions
but I ended up drawing her some more, too in pen.
Just something about her, I love the little poncho,
the big bow right under her chin, so cute.
This was planning out a drawing just like a winter christmasy themed illustration.
I'm quite fond of like the little sketches
and just how sketchy the page looks
and I did my darndest to make the perspective actually make sense
and I'm really happy with this little guy
and then I moved to a different piece of paper
and the colors just didn't work, I ended up making little mistakes
because I was like starting to rush myself
and it just did not turn out as well as I wanted it to.
This is one of those things where it's like yeah,
the sketchbook isn't for markers, clearly,
but some reason, my stuff turns out better, I don't know what it is.
I also really like this, that's a really nice sketch.
This, I was designing characters that had like little animal buddies,
you know, kind of like Pokémon and Pokémon trainers
but like real animals, so here we have our turtle guy
and this was kind of the final turtle idea
where he's literally got like a utility belt shell.
I, I'm quite fond of that idea.
Then this one was flamingo I think because of the like costumes and stuff.
I'm not sure probably talked my way through it, I don't remember.
I drew the turtle again I see and then here is my doggie,
the top one, I definitely drew looking at a reference
so he was like at the end of my bed
and then the rest are all just kind of trying to
draw him different poses I've seen him in throughout the years now.
Can't believe I've had that dog for 11 years, still a puppy to me.
This spread, I challenged myself to design a rainbow outfit
in like four different styles, casual, going out, swimwear and formal or ball gown.
I don't know what it was, I filmed that, too
but you can see I like swatched my markers
to kind of try to find the like perfect rainbow that I was looking for
and then I threw it all out the window and did a pastel one at the end
and then afterwards, so I guess I did draw a little bit outside of filming.
I decided to draw some more ball gowns because it just made me so happy.
I can't explain it, I love drawing big smooshy dresses
and like look at the back, this was the beginning of the 100 head challenge
which took me far too long to complete
but yeah we drew 100 heads, kind of talked about all of them in that video,
so I'm kind of out of words to really describe any of these.
I did leave this page blank because I know when you draw graphite on both sides
they switch together and do this
so then you end up with this on top of other sketches
and you can't erase it whereas if you don't sketch there, you can erase it
and then it's clean again and also, I just thought it looked cool
because I thought if I left that page blank, this page would really stand out
and I love the way it's all like organized,
something about it makes me happy.
More heads, more heads, this page doesn't make me quite as happy,
there's like a weird gap right here
because I was avoiding this spot, could have drawn like one more head there
and I think this page would really come together
but I didn't and there are only 100 heads and I'm not going to add another one now.
This one's a little nicer, I really like this because it's like in pen,
like pen is definitely one of those things, like,
whenever I come back to, it just works for me.
It's like, it likes me, I like it, pen and me would just, we go together.
On this page, I think I just wanted to use gouache.
This honestly turned out decent.
I really like the texture, I think I had a fear going in
because like I tried to do this face like there was face paint on it,
it just looks like a light colored skin
so what I did was when I was shading the face paint,
I used like blues and grays to shade it
whereas when I'm shading the skin, I used warmer colors, so yeah,
that was something cool that happened.
Back to the faces or heads, I don't know, it's 100 heads challenge,
so back to the heads.
I really like both of these pages actually,
this is a mix of like the Tombow brush pen and purple pen on top.
Oh wow, this is when I realized that I hadn't actually drawn on this page yet
so I decided to take a little time and plan that out
so here's the planning of that.
I also had to come up with the colors for her
because all previous sketches were black and white
because I was trying to draw on the cover
which obviously was gonna be one color so I had to do that.
At this point in time, these two pages, I just glued in here.
It's watercolor paper from a recent Scrawlrbox
and then this is me planning out something to store my markers
which I have right here, it's made out of poplar wood.
I haven't quite used it yet, literally just put the markers in it,
and I'm so exited to try it out.
Okay, I also wrote down what the paper was
and what the paints were for some reason.
I think I just thought it looked cool with some arrows.
This was me trying to do guilty pleasure art.
So I came up with a mushroom girl.
Oh there's a cute sketch, under there you can't see it, can you see?
It's cute, I like that but yeah, mushroom girl,
I really like the use of the or the mixture of the green and the red
without it looking too christmassy. I think I did a good job of that.
Some more of the hundred heads.
These remind me of when I used to draw in crayons on the kids menu
because I would use yellow as my sketch
then I'd use either blue or red to like draw on top
so that's what this reminds me of although it's in a much better pencil,
it doesn't look all that different.
Some more heads, quite like this page.
I like the way I put them into boxes
and then like stacked them all around.
More heads, you'll notice the numbers got mixed up
because I missed the page, don't know how I did that, wasn't happy about it, I lived.
Then these are put on sticky notes
because the other page has doggies.
One of my favorite spreads, like, I like them all in different ways
and it's interesting how like most of the colors are all the same
because like a lot of dogs are like the same colors, no purple dogs out there.
What's wrong? What's wrong with the world?
Actually, I think there would be something wrong with the world
if there were more purple dogs.
Anyway, this is the final 100 heads.
These ones were actually done digitally
and then cut them out and glued them in here
because I'm like if I don't print them out, I will never see them again.
So I just cut them out and glued them in
and I'm really glad I did because this page has marker on it,
so gluing something on top just works out better anyway
and then this page actually is not the sketchbook,
it's actually a piece of paper about the size of a sketch, of my sketchbook
and I drew the remainder of the heads on that
and then just glued it in because the other side has marker as well.
This was a recent Zenpop box where I used the colors from the box
and some of the stationery and then designed outfits.
Although I didn't design the outfits, they're outfits I found on Pinterest
but I use the colors and the textures and the patterns
to like create all of these outfits
which I think is quite interesting to see such different outfits
but they're all similar and then they go together
but it looks cool
and I like this washi tape, it looks like stamps.
Oh and then this is actually the final page
and I have a bunch of remainder
so this is the one of the few sketchbooks that doesn't have a pocket
and I don't think I thought that was a big deal when I first started using it
but now I've got all these things and no where to put them.
Here we have some more sketches.
These are from the video of like what to draw you don't know what to draw,
some flowers, that one took forever, like I should probably hang that one up
just as a testament to my perseverance.
Then we have this like cottage core kind of girl.
Some sketches I drew with yellow and orange.
More of the tiger, I told you I drew him quite a few times.
He just, I love the colors and I'm not a huge fan of orange
so he must have won me over somehow.
Some little blub animals.
This was from the tiger video when I was brainstorming it.
I really like this paw, more realistic head there
and then we have some more, that was the first version of him in a sweatshirt
with his little clipboard, um.
Oh, did I even talk about this, I finished off the sketchbook with some more Riley
since she's on the front, she's also in the back.
I was kind of figure out what her handwriting might look like, I don't know,
I like to do that sometimes with characters
because like you get so used to writing your own name,
like it gets boring, so like write someone else's name
or make up someone and write their name that's what I do,
yeah here she is waving and saying thanks for stopping by,
although she's a train conductor so she'd probably be the one leaving,
like, hey, bye and you'd be like thanks for stopping by
and then finally got my doggie, little adorable versions.
Every time I draw him like this I like wanna get him on a sticker.
I mean can you blame me, he's so cute!
Anyway thank you guys for watching, goodbye.
If you've watched all of my videos there weren't that many new sketches in here
so I apologize for that, that's something I really want to do more of going forward.
I have started the next sketchbook
and I have a video of myself a drawing on this one
but I'm so happy with it, the paper's not awesome and it's super thick
so it's going to take me forever
but I'm going to try my best to kind of get through it
to kind of get a better vibe of what works in it and what doesn't
and uh, yeah stay tuned for more information about that
and hopefully a sketchbook tour in the coming years.
I feel like I could totally get this done in 2023 but we will see
but yes, this is where we bid farewell to sketchbook 27.
Thank you guys for watching and coming along with me,
not only like through the sketchbook but like as I filled the sketchbook,
a lot of you were there with me,
so thanks for all the support and encouragement along the way
in completing this sketchbook
and I hope you all have a delicious evening full of waffles.
Bye!
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