Hey guys! Welcome to my studio.
Today, I'm gonna show you a six ways that you can fill this baby right here!
We all have that sketchbook that we're trying to fill.
Lacking inspiration sometimes maybe we just want to have fun.
Yeah, these are the things that you can do to just let loose, have some fun. Maybe push yourself a little bit.
No matter where you are. [Mouth click]
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Alrighty, the first fun activity you can to fill a page in your sketchbook is washi tape art!
So you saw all those pretty colors I have. Well, I'm just drawing a portrait like I normally would in my sketchbook.
Except there's gonna be a twist to it.
Instead of coloring everything and doing all that fancy shading.
I am going to take a little shortcut and
cover some areas with washi tape.
So I have this exacto knife tool,
except it's more of just a pointed thing.
It's a little dollar and I run it along the edges of my washi tape and boom
I can just cut it and peel it up.
Super easy. I get out of some shading and everything looks so fancy afterwards.
So if you want some inspiration, if you want to add some color to your pages,
grab a roll of washi tape and if you don't have any, a lot of times
Michaels has a on clearance for - I think I've gotten rolls for like 25 cents before.
Keep your eye out you can do it.
Anyway, I am coloring in some areas just to make it pop and woo, she has some botanical hair.
Look how beautiful. All because of washi tape and honestly
I just used some rolls that I had sitting around for over a year.
It really brought this piece to life. I really love doing this.
I got the idea from Kasey Golden and now I'm hooked on the washi tape art thing.
it's really fun that to add those patterns to your pages.
By the way, I'm gonna mention, right now, that you are more than welcome to do any of the ideas you see here.
If you want to do this exact project, but maybe a different washi tape or something,
go for it. Tag me on Instagram. Show me what you did.
I love seeing your guys's artwork or just comment down below and let me know if you've ever done this before.
What did you draw? I want to know. [Laughs]
I decided to add some accents around her with this colored pencil,
botanical wreath thing.
but all-in-all this whole project maybe took me 30 minutes.
That's how quick it is,
just laying down washi tape and doing some minimal shading. Here it is and
That is the first idea.
If you don't feel like using color in your sketchbook, then this idea is for you.
You'll really only need a pencil and a pen that's laying around your house and
draw something really simple and maybe steer clear of
backgrounds because this one is gonna take patience.
If you feel like maybe watching Netflix or listening to a podcast,
I'd recommend you just turn something good on, something to feed your ears
Draw something simple.
I am drawing a sprig of lavender and outlining it with my pen.
This is where it gets crazy guys,
We are doing stippling and it's gonna make a really cool vintage effect. It just takes a lot of patience.
So stippling is shading with dots.
You do tons of dots and where you want it to be darker.
you do more dots. Where you want it to be lighter, you do less dots. It's really easy.
It's hard to mess it up. It just takes so much patience
That's why I'm like, hey girl, you might want some Netflix for this or a podcast because it passes the time.
Every time I do this in my sketchbook, I always look back and I'm like
Wow, this looks so cool. This was so fun!
Here's my sprig of lavender and it's finished. This probably took me an hour. That's it.
If you've seen any of my older videos with ideas to fill your sketchbook,
you may have come across ideas that are very similar to this one.
Themed patterns. I'm a sucker for
patterns on pages. I think they're so beautiful and they're really, really therapeutic.
This is what I'm doing for this one, I picked a color scheme and I decided to go with nautical colors.
Reds and blues.
I decided to fill my page with nautical things.
I'm doing corals,
Seaweeds, fish all that kind of stuff. I could have added anchors and stuff,
but I wanted to keep it more on the natural side of the nautical. That's what we're doing and I'm basically
repeating all these simple silhouettes across my page.
I'm not doing shading, just silhouettes and it looks really cool,
the more you add. What I'm doing is, for each specific thing.
I'm only doing that in one color.
You'll notice certain shapes of coral are only in red.
Other shapes are only in blue and it creates some consistency.
When you look at it from far away when it's done, it's like whoa. This is a sweet looking pattern. I did this!
Yeah, I would totally recommend it.
If you are a beginner artist, this is a great project to make you feel really proud of yourself
If you need a little self-esteem boost, just saying, this is your project right here.
Just repeat a bunch of shapes. Pick a really cool color scheme that you like a lot and roll with it.
I did something really similar to this in another Sketchbook video,
where I painted a bunch of blobs and then I filled them all in with different zentangle patterns.
This one essentially takes it a step further. It's a little more advanced but really it doesn't matter
what skill level you are, anybody can do this. It's super stress relieving, super therapeutic.
If you're feeling a little stressed out. I would definitely welcome you to do this.
Let me know what kind of art you do when you are stressed out and let me know if you've ever done this before.
Maybe you plan to, This is what it looks like when it's done.
You can pretty much stop at any point or you can even do more detail than this. whatever you want. Really.
The fourth thing you can do if you have any stamps laying around your house,
or maybe you've made your own stamps before.
Shout out to this stamp. I actually carved it in a previous video.
You can take these stamps. You can take leaves or just any fancy cool objects you feel like pressing to a page,
experiment with different media on these. So right now I'm pressing everything with gouache.
Then, I'm taking these of Ohuhu brush markers and coloring them and
pressing them and they all leave different effects and that is so cool.
So yeah
I just encourage you to experiment and toy around.
you don't have to carve your own stamp if you don't want to but you can if you want.
It adds some color to your pages. It's a very quick exercise.
I like to do this when I'm not proud of a couple pages in a row in my sketchbook, and then I'm like
Oh, I need to do something to encourage myself,
Get me inspired again and just cheer me up with something colorful and happy. I resort to this.
It brightens the mood,
It lets you have a little bit of fun with no pressure because you're literally just pressing objects to a page.
You can even carve a potato and make a stamp girl. You can do whatever you want.
It turns out really cool and you get to experiment, how cool!
Alright guys, grab a magazine, grab a newspaper.
Whatever you have laying around.
You're gonna need it for the fifth one and let me tell you what. This one is my favorite one of this entire video.
Cut out something that you feel like drawing and make sure it's something that you enjoy.
I took a Better Homes and Gardens magazine,
clipped out some pastries.
What you're doing is you're gonna cut that picture in half like I did and you're gonna draw the other side.
So this really
challenges you to expand your skills in
realism or maybe if you're doing this with an illustration.
You have to take on the style of whatever that picture is and the goal here is to try to make
your half look exactly consistent with the magazine or newspaper.
Clipping page It is so fun because it really pushes you to
keep adding details, see how far you can take it and then at the end when you're all finished,
sometimes it's really, really hard to tell which half is which.
Sometimes it actually ends up being quite humorous because it's hard to match it. So I definitely recommend that you try this.
I did this in high school art class once.
I completely forgot about it until a couple months ago and then I was like, oh,
My word I need to do this again. Now I'm hooked on it again. I think it's so fun
Let me know if you've ever done this in the comments.
I really like it.
If you do this, something I'm gonna recommend to you, is to show it to somebody
You know and have them guess which side you drew and which side is the magazine or newspaper.
I just think this one is so fun. I'm really glad that I was able to draw food.
I found a food one. I really like the Better Homes and Gardens magazines though because cooking is fun.
This exercise is really fun because it does push you to keep going the extra mile.
You can kind of tell when you compare it to the magazine that you need to go further.
I definitely recommend this.
I started with watercolor and then I layered some colored pencil over top,
then I'm doing some final details with gouache.
You can get fancy, do a bunch of different mediums. Whatever floats your boat.
Here's mine and boom, magazine, mine, magazine, mine. Do a little comparison.
Yeah!
The last idea I'm gonna leave you with is something you all have probably heard of before.
Especially if you follow artists on Instagram, but it is the meet the artist challenge.
I guess it's not really a challenge but I definitely recommend it and I think it's really fun to put this in your sketchbook
because you can look back at it later and see how you changed and you can see how your art changes.
I like to do two simple, cartoon art for these little things but I think they're really fun.
Basically, what you write, is your name, you can write your height and stuff like that if you want.
I don't because I'm lazy, but you also write your likes your dislikes.
What's in your art bag.
What you carry in your purse, if you use a purse.
Yoy can really do whatever you want with it. You can add or subtract elements as well.
So I'm drawing a cartoon version of myself. What I would normally wear and then I am just writing different things
I like and I don't like and then I think it's cool. It's like a time capsule on a page
Later I'm obviously gonna enjoy looking back at this and seeing if my likes and dislikes have changed over time.
Anyway, I definitely recommend that.
Sorry, I only left you with six ideas today. I felt like these ones were more in depth than my usual Suggestions
If you want more sketchbook videos, though.
Let me know in the comments and I will work on another one. Have a wonderful day, and I hope these helped you. Bye