- Hey, art fam.
I hope you're having a good day.
Guess what we did?
We filled this sketchbook together.
It has been a fun year with this thing.
A lot of you guys ask what this is,
and it is an illo sketchbook.
But now, it is time to do a tour
and that's really exciting.
Now, I have to put a disclaimer
at the beginning of this video.
There are some blank pages that you're going to see
throughout this thing so it is not 100% full.
However, I am leaving those blank for now because
I am involved
in a really cool "Dungeons & Dragons" campaign.
And while I'm playing,
I like to sketch and kind of jot down some of the storyline.
So I want to keep that campaign in here
and I'm leaving those pages for the campaign.
Okay, let's just open her up.
Here is the first page of my sketchbook.
I should probably tell you guys, I go out of order.
That's just how I am.
And that's what makes creating feel more fun
and interesting to me in my sketchbook,
if I can just jump around.
So sometimes I save my first page
for around the last,
and that's kind of what I did this time.
But I actually turned this moth into a sticker
because I just really loved the process of creating it.
It was so fun and I just loved the little eyes here.
Next page is these fall leaves.
And wow, that feels like forever ago that I made that.
Probably was.
Time flies when you're having fun, right?
But I thought this was really fun to create back then,
because I do remember using both watercolor
and colored pencils.
This
was really fun, 'cause look at that gold leaf.
I can't get enough of that.
I really can't.
I really enjoyed this.
I actually glued a drawing that I did into my sketchbook
'cause I wanted to save it in a special place.
Now, if you've been with my channel for a while,
you will have probably seen a lot of the pieces
that are in this sketchbook
because I do a lot of sketchbook videos
to try to inspire people, you know,
to have their own creative outlets.
So yeah, you got to see the journey of me filling this.
There's going to be a couple things in here
you maybe haven't seen,
and then there's going to be a couple things in here
that I'm not going to show because I treat
this
as a fun and special place to express myself
and sometimes, some pieces
are a bit more personal than others.
So yeah.
I take joy in keeping some art to myself.
Alrighty, let's continue.
This is probably one of my favorite pages
in my entire sketchbook.
This here is just a royalty-free image
that I found on the internet
and I just took a brown colored pencil and I sketched it
and it looks like some old photograph.
It was so fun.
There's this cute little like hippie van here.
Such a vibe.
And then this here is a simple gouache landscape.
And I really had fun painting it
because I don't know what it is about painting
in my sketchbook, but it brings me a lot of joy.
So question of the day,
what kind of stuff do you do in your sketchbook?
Do you like to just sketch or do you like to paint?
Do you maybe like to do a little bit of everything?
Leave a comment down below.
Okay, so this page here, this is like a gouache bouquet.
And then this,
I was like trying to use a bunch of different shades of red
and it ended up looking really creepy.
That was not my intention.
Here, okay,
this is an example of something I doodled during D&D,
session five.
So the beginning of this campaign
was actually in a different sketchbook,
but I am trying to keep the rest of it in this sketchbook.
I doodled that, I think when we were playing as well.
Another D&D session.
I think I doodled that while we were playing.
I don't know, I like to do weird stuff like this.
It's really fun doing like blobs and eyes and clouds.
Another D&D session, all right.
Oh, here I was brainstorming some sticker ideas
and this actually ended up being a sticker,
but it didn't say "embrace your weirdness".
It said like "be weird" or something like that.
I was so afraid my D&D character was going to die,
I drew a backup.
I don't want that to be my next character though.
All right, here is a page of some of my stickers
that I have designed in the past.
I really love preserving stickers
that I have personally made in my sketchbook
because it just feels special to me to look back
at like most of the time it's digital art that I've created,
and the fact that I can preserve it
and be like, these are the things that I've made this year
in my sketchbook, that feels really special to me.
Also, I'm a person that likes to open my sketchbook
and see a lot of color
so ton of colorful stickers on a page makes me so happy.
This drawing here was inspired by Yara Shahidi.
I changed the hair and the outfit and everything,
'cause I wanted like a pastel vibe at the time.
It was probably like spring or something when I drew this
'cause the color scheme.
I don't know.
I don't remember.
Here's some cute little monsters on a page.
Oh, what one is my favorite?
I really like this confused looking rabbit.
Okay, this was when I used a copper leaf marker,
and I really like those gold leaf copper leaf markers
because it just adds so much interest to a piece of artwork.
So I did that with these fun little clouds.
Thumbs up, whatever is happening, but thumbs up.
Okay, so every single sketchbook that I do,
I love to do a goals page.
So let's explore the goals that I created on this page
that I'm about to show you
and see what ones we can like check off
and what ones I'm still working on.
The first goal, go through all my art supplies
and reorganize everything.
Donate some stuff.
I did that.
I did that 'cause I moved, I had to downsize.
Launch my side channel for studio vlogs and fun stuff.
Wow, I made this before I launched Freely Mira.
Yeah, so if you want to see my studio vlogs, Freely Mira.
I will link it down below.
Paint on larger canvases, 2x3 feet.
I did that.
I did an ocean painting.
It was 2x3 feet and I did a 3x3 feet ocean painting.
Listen to more audio books and podcasts while making art.
I've been listening to a lot of Brené Brown
on Audible this year, so I think that counts,
and a couple other books on there,
more like fantasy sci-fi though.
We'll say I got like half of that goal.
Continue encouraging and uplifting others through my art.
I don't think I can answer that one,
but I think you guys can answer if I have
or have not completed that goal.
I hope my videos encourage you.
Try plein air painting in fields and at rivers, et cetera.
Well, I bought my plein air easel and I have not used it
so we did not do that one.
Launch more merch options this year
and have lots of fun with the process.
Did that.
Do it for the process.
Yes, that is my favorite reason for making art.
It's the process.
Be okay with changing my mind
and going through different art phases.
I think I'm okay with that, guys.
I'm a pretty explorational person
and I think I embrace that pretty clearly on my channel
and just in my personal art journey.
Do more water and landscape paintings.
That's about all I've been doing lately.
Finish this sketchbook this year.
Yay, we did it.
Deepen my understanding of color theory,
read books, take classes and watch tutorials.
I would say yes to this
because I watch a lot of Skillshare classes,
I watch a lot of my favorite painters on YouTube
talk about color and everything.
I would say for the most part I've done that one.
Could have maybe done better, but whatevs.
Continue my Creatures of Peace painting series.
I have not done that
and I have not felt inspired to return to that series yet
so that'll be in the back burner.
Make an oil painting series
of at least 5 or 10 related paintings.
Okay, I did that, but it was actually acrylic paint
with the Floral Garden series.
So I would say we kind of ish did that.
Be kind to myself and my art journey.
I think for the most part.
Some days are better than others, but yeah.
I would say those were good goals
and I'm excited to make new ones in my new sketchbook.
This is a painting of Florence, Italy.
This is acrylic.
Another D&D session.
Here's another acrylic painting.
Many of you folks told me in this video
that this reminds you of a field of eggs
and now I can't un-see it.
So thank you.
If you want to know how I do acrylic painting
in my sketchbook,
because you're going to see it pretty frequently in here,
I always gesso my page first
in a pretty generous layer of gesso,
and then I paint over it and it works out really great.
Here's a page of random stuff.
Two more acrylic paintings.
This turned into a sticker, which is really cool.
And this is just a random door.
I love feeling acrylic paintings in my sketchbook.
I just, like, the texture feels so cool.
Okay, so here is a drawing that I did
and I used acryla gouache,
I think,
and colored pencil to make it.
Yes, acryla gouache.
Some brainstorming stuff for the holidays that I never used.
Little art palette.
That became a sticker.
I like to turn my doodles into stickers.
This.
Oh my goodness.
This is like one of the most stress relieving
sketchbook activities.
Just like looking at it, makes me feel more calm
because like remembering how I felt when I made it
was awesome.
So if you struggle with stress,
highly recommend little scribbles
and then fill in each space in with different colors.
Got some mountains.
Cute little foxes.
Here is my organic lumpy little mandala.
I kind of like that it's lumpy and imperfect.
Another D&D session.
Now you can see why I'm like so passionate
about like saving what few pages I have left
for my D&D sessions.
Sometimes I stop writing down what's happening and stuff
and just engage in the moment.
But I don't know.
It's like really special to me
to have that in this sketchbook.
Here's another gold leaf doodle here.
We've got a fun
gouache
landscape inspired by Claude Monet.
I wanted to make these into stickers and then I never did
so here are some doodles.
This page was so fun to create.
Sometimes these simple pages like this to alleviate anxiety
are just the best, and this glitter has some good texture.
Love it.
Gotta love a good zentangle.
This page reminds me of "Harry Potter".
It just makes me want to do
like a "Harry Potter" version of this.
Little portrait.
I would like to do portraits more.
I think I might get some better water colors
and do more like watercolory portraits or something.
Picnic on a page.
Okay, so we're in summertime now.
A lot of these things are still my favorites
so not much has changed.
Oh my word.
Do you guys remember when I did this video?
There are 100 eyes on this sketchbook spread.
This was a really fun thing to make.
Like, it might be one of my favorite pages
in this sketchbook.
There's just like so many styles and colors on this page.
This page creeps me out so I don't like it that much.
Some more cute doodle-y things.
If you've ordered from my shop lately,
you might be getting a surprise
freebie little paintbrush sticker
because I like to include freebies with orders when I can,
while supplies last.
This was really fun to draw.
My D20.
Random stuff.
I glued lots of doodles in here and that was really fun.
What were?
We did this in a video together, right?
Oh, we were testing Amazon art supplies.
That's what we were doing.
We did Floofles.
Remember Floofles?
Oh, this is another good one.
"Leave your worries in the waves".
I like this.
Just write the things that are stressing you out.
Oh my goodness.
And guess what?
House hunting.
I'm not doing that anymore.
We moved.
Okay, so this is probably my all time favorite page
in this entire sketchbook.
I did a study of one of Claude Monet's paintings
and love it.
That was a fun experience,
which is probably why it's my favorite piece
in this sketchbook.
Oh, I forgot about these.
Some fun gouache paintings.
This was with that jelly gouache
that has been all the rage on the internet this year.
I actually quite like it.
This was a thing that I doodled on the beach
in Hawaii, when I was eating food.
We were eating chicken katsu, rice, pineapple, and salad.
That was a great day.
And that's my sketchbook.
This is what I drew this year.
It is not probably as much as I have drawn in other years
in a sketchbook.
However, I have done a lot of really large paintings
this year and I've started devoting my time
to bigger art pieces and that has been really fulfilling.
So if you want to see any of those big painting videos,
feel free to browse through my channel.
Yeah, good times.
A lot of these we did together in my sketchbook videos,
which is so cool.
Well, thank you, folks
for embarking on this art journey with me
and geeking out over painting and drawing,
and art supplies and sketchbooks.
This was a fun chapter.
Now, let me show you the sketchbook
we're going to fill next though.
My sister-in-law, Sheila, made me this sketchbook.
She's so good at like hand-making sketchbooks and stuff.
And the inside of this is watercolor paper.
Oh my goodness.
I'm so excited.
I cannot wait to use this.
That's what's coming next.
I've been dying to use this.
You want to see something so cute too?
She engraved my initials into it.
And the spine looks like this.
Anyway, I'm just geeking out here,
but this is the one that we're going to use next.
Thank you for watching.
I hope you enjoyed this.
And if you have a sketchbook of your own,
I hope you feel free to do whatever you want in it,
because that is your place to express yourself,
and practice, and get things wrong
and get things right as artists,
and it's a great little space to grow
and catch a vision for other projects
we want to do in the future.
And yeah, I just love sketchbooks.
Thank you so much for watching.
I hope you have a beautiful day.
Bye.