If you've been around my channel for a while you may have already seen the contents of this sketchbook
This is my very first sketch book that I ever filled completely
I just really really wanted to refilm it because I can't even watch that video without, like, baby barfing in my throat
It's like, ugh, it looks like I filmed it in the freaking catacombs or something
I don't know
There's like no lighting whatsoever
So I thought i would just re-film it with my current setup that way everyone can see what the heck's going on
So my very first sketch book was filled from *Chuckles* February of 2008 to April 2008 so I filled this in two months
I think it's 30 pages or something. I don't know but the story is I feel like I should retell it
um,
I decided I wanted to be an artist
I guess in 2008 and I just was like I need a sketch book so that I can become a real artist and
so I went to the store with my mom we bought the Sketchbook and uh
I went on YouTube and found some tutorials on how to draw some eyeballs
And how to draw a mouth, and feet and I was like I'm going to be an artist
so I need to know what I'm doing so I used YouTube and
Deviantart and all Sorts of different
Websites to learn how to draw and that was basically the gist of it here
I'm using what I learned and like putting it all together into one picture
Here I was trying to draw- We have this doorstop. I don't even know if it is a doorstop
Is this like statue thing is a little doggy so I decided to draw him.
Here I was drawing my own hand. You'll notice a lot in all of my sketchbooks I almost always draw just my left hand because I'm
Drawing with [my] right hand and using my left hand as a reference. There's nothing wrong with that
I mean both hands are basically the same
They're just inverted so but as you're learning the different structures really not going to bother you
I used to really hate this drawing. Now that I'm older I've come to grips with it
I'm like yes I used that now I've learned to be better, but sometimes you don't see that when you're just [starting] out that
Everything you're drawing is really helping you become a better artist, and you really shouldn't look down on your own art.
This is a dry erase marker
Here's a [creepy-looking] boy. I remember thinking he looks like he's from some kind of horror movie.
I actually remember exactly where I was [when] I was drawing this, that's kind of creepy.
This is a drawing of my grandma here. I think she was 101 so I think she made it pretty far
This is a drawing of me and some of my friends
I actually used a photo reference for this, I used a photo reference for the last one too,
And so I was just basically teaching myself to draw by copying things
Not tracing, copying. I don't think tracing is so bad when you're starting out.
I just don't think that you should claim credit for it. Copying a picture
I think [is] [a] little different because you do have to like a look at a reference and draw it over here
But still it's not really your original work, so I don't know. I'm on the fence about that
Here is a genie cuz I was really into I dream a Genie in 2008. Here's some of the first
Like concepts of Magna girl when she started to look the way she sort of does now I
Like to draw her in this little chibi style. I just thought it was cute
And so I decided to draw some other things in that same style
I have like a spider girl, and then I had this shirt that I got in Florida
That was like a crop top and I would wear it with tank tops
And I just thought I was the coolest thing I felt like I was Hannah Montana
Here's some more little chibis. I've got
Maria from the Sound of music
This I think is inspired by this sort of like- This musical in France
I really don't remember what it was called, but that's what that was inspired from and a cowgirl
Here I drew- basically I think my idea was like a female, Indiana Jones, so of course she's losing her hat.
A witch! She's basically- Is she doing the same pose? Okay no, for some reason I remembered that arm being up there
I thought she was in the same pose. That would have been funny, but yeah, here is a witch falling off of her broom
very anime-inspired.
Here, this was supposed to be me and my friend
Here's when I discovered Mark Crilley on YouTube and so I thought I have to be just like him
[oh] my gosh, so I went to the library [and] got all the Miki Falls books and read them realized
manga's not really my thing but before I realized that I had to draw some fanart
And do of course Mark Crilley's wonderful tutorials on how to draw Manga eyes. I think that's what this one is
That was really popular. I really like that eye. I wonder if that was in the tutorial that one turned out really really nice
I don't know.
So now I feel like I'm getting better as an artist so I decided to draw- Go away. So I decided to draw
Magna girl as a-
Not an adult but like more properly proportion, but as you can see I wrote 'yuck!'
I guess I didn't like this. I don't know it doesn't look that bad to me.
Okay
Here, oh I remember spending hours on this! This so weird that I remember exactly where I was every time I drew these things.
Sometimes I can look at picture
and I remember exactly what I was feeling and
Where I was sitting and like what was going on in my life when I look at a picture, so it's really really weird
It's like flipping through my own brain, it's crazy! Anyway,
I remember spending forever on this and then thinking it was so awesome, but then I like walked away
Came back, and then I saw all the problems with it
And so I wrote down all the things I had problems with and I said it was too tall, or skinny, or something.
She has good hair
'I need to work on lower torso, great legs, practice more eyes' like I was my own worst critic and
Like nothing I did was ever good enough, but I really enjoyed it. So I'm glad I stuck with it
Or I would not be where I am today.
Of course I had to draw a pirate because I was obsessed with this little movie you may have heard of
called Pirates of the Caribbean I don't know if you've heard about it. It's a small film
You know, it's not a big deal, but those who love it, LOVE it.
I'm not a huge fan of the sequel, but [I] really really liked that first movie. My whole family
Really liked that movie so we ended up watching it like almost every week
And it's actually kind [of] funny because on like road trips or on the way home
Grandma's house we would actually,
we would just in the back of the van, we
Me and my brother would just go through the whole movie
Like we never made it through the whole thing because our trip wasn't that long
But we would just go through [the] movie and say quotes from it like just from start to finish.
That's just funny like I still remember the beginning of the movie just from practicing. Here I drew a girl dancing.
I actually kind of like how expressive this pose is, it kind of actually looks like she's, you know, moving.
It's pretty cool, but again, I wrote the things I liked about it and things I thought I needed to work on. It doesn't-
Personally, I remember what I was feeling when I wrote this
So I wrote the things I didn't like and then I was like well
'Someone might [look] in this book and think I don't like my drawings.'
So then I wrote like the things that I did like just so that other people wouldn't think I hated my art even though I did.
So it's kind of funny because going through [it] [I] didn't realize that and I was like 'Oh wait, yeah, I remember'.
Oh, why was I so hard on my self? That's so stupid!
[Here] I drew a girl pilot and I said her hands are too tiny, which-
(Dramatic music plays)
But that was something I wanted to fix and let me tell you, I had sorta fixed that, so that's good.
Here I drew a girl titled 'Thinking'. I used to put titles on everything in the description so that people would like know
what was going on because I guess I just didn't have enough faith in myself, but
Yeah, I guess that's the moral of this sketchbook is don't
doubt yourselves just draw, like it doesn't matter what other people think about your art really not what it's about
But yeah again wrote some comments.
Here I draw a girl in like an Easter dress or something with a cute little sweater, and then I didn't really like it
So I drew it as a chibi because I felt like all my chibis looked cuter and hey,
I don't know if it's cuter, but it turned out nice.
Here I drew a sort of Sailormoon inspired drawing, but I had like, absolutely no reference, and I hadn't seen sailor moon in over 10 years
So it's just like [a] weird Magic girl. Yes. Theres that
Here I drew a [super] [star] and remember thinking where the frick. It's like- She needs a third leg or something. (Laughter)
She's got such a huge thigh gap. Okay.
But [yeah], she looks pretty cool. She looks like she'd be a fun singer to go see a show for.
Here I drew a girl and a boy, I don't know why I always drew hair it would like to stick out and go SQUISH,
It was crazy. Oh but I was like their heads are too small. That's funny.
[Oh], you might recognize this if you've seen to my other sketch books. This girl,
She turned into something completely different, but with the polka dots and the skirt. That's very similar.
She turned into my original character Philomena
Or Philly, doesn't- You can call her either one, it doesn't matter. Here I drew a bit of a hipster
I feel like this is from a how to draw Manga book.
[Just] what she kind of looks like to me, but I could be wrong.
This just doesn't look like something I would have drawn without some kind of reference
there is that.
This was definitely from a how to draw a manga book. I feel like it was the big book of manga or something.
Yeah.
I feel like that. I don't know. I don't own that book. I got it from the library because I don't pay for things.
Here I drew a runaway princess. I spent hours on this um
I remember putting so much time into shading it and then I would finish it, and then I'm like 'Oh my gosh
She needs one more wrinkle over here', and then [I'd] [add] another wrinkle, and then I added that other wrinkle.
I just went crazy with this
But I had a lot of fun with this, this is where
I learned like I really like drawing dresses and
Flowy dresses and all that so that's, that's one of my favorite things to draw is definitely dresses
And I think this actually turned out really nice. I really like the way this looks.
I never realized I was pretty good at shading even though I don't really shade things anymore. Feel like I should get back into that shading things with pencils,
It looks really really pretty.
Here I drew a ballerina.
Um, I remember drawing all these little ruffles and thinking that looked so cool
So I had them literally everywhere, and then I thought that I could draw like her holding this, uh.
Well, I think this started, actually now that I think about it, it started with her just doing like a pose like 'uhh'. (Hand gestures ballet pose) Like that and I was
Like okay, she looks kind of weird. It looks like she might be holding something so that I added this like
flowy fabric like blowing in the wind
And I like that, but if she's a ballerina, I don't why her legs are so far apart, that's not really a ballerina
thing to do but. Unless she's jumping. [I] don't know, whatever. And apparently I can't spell Ballerina
That's, that's interesting fact. Okay. Here I drew a pixie!
Again, I don't know why I was always drawing the legs just (explosion noise) and just like everywhere
But there is that. I kind of like this drawing. It's cute. [I] like that I was very
experimental with my poses and that's something I do I'm glad that I learned or
practiced back then
Because I as I got older I sort of became more reserved with my poses and like I just always sure like same person standing
There with their hand on their hip.
So I've kind of inspired myself like looking through my old Sketchbook
I've inspired myself to try and do the things that I was trying to do back then that I thought I wasn't good enough at
so that's
That's a cool thing about flipping through old sketchbooks is, you know,
Even though you weren't the best at art
You can still inspire yourself later on and so I definitely recommend that you all
keep sketchbooks
And don't throw them away and don't erase your sketches that you don't like because it's all,
I mean, unless you know that there's something specifically wrong and you're gonna fix it in and erase it
that's fine, but don't erase a whole drawing. That drives me crazy!
I've done that myself
Like when I flip through these old sketch books like I see where I erased the whole picture and do something completely different and it drives
Me [crazy] because like I don't know what was there and it's just weird.
I don't recommend that and you'll probably regret it later on, so just don't erase it like just turn the page.
That's why Sketchbook have got so many pages. You don't have to finish every drawing, it's totally okay. And here's my last drawing.
I remember drawing this at the dentist. Is that the last? Yeah, that's the last one. I remember drawing at the dentist
Well, that's kind of funny and I drew I don't know what I was thinking
I just drew these big like arm things and I was like oh, but I should draw her hands, but her hands are teeny
so then I added this cool color like
fabric- Well, not fabric like leopard- Is that leopard or cheetah?
I don't know. Little print, I think it's a cheetah print, on her legs, and then I made her a cave man
So she's still sitting on this giant club. So there's that anyway, so that is it for my very first
Sketchbook. Thank you guys for all taking this journey through my very first sketchbook, again.
This is like my rebooted version!
And if you've already seen this sketchbook I'll have a brand new video for [you] next, and every time
I film a new sketchbook
I'm like oh go check out my old ones
But then I don't even like looking at those so I
just- I want to refilm the ones that I just can't stand and then maybe either delete or put those on private or something.
Um, but yeah, that's the plan [anyway].
Let me know if you think that's a good plan, and let me know if you've seen these sketches. Let me know if you watched this sketchbook
the first time I filmed it
3 years ago, I think it is now, holy moly!
Anyway, I think we've come pretty far
And I want to thank you guys all for just being here and showing your support for me
And thank you guys all for watching and I hope you all have a delicious evening full of waffles!
Bye!