Hey guys, how's it goin'?
I have been roaming Pinterest lately.
You guys seem to really enjoy my sketchbook videos for some reason.
So, I decided to delve into the Pinterest world and look up sketchbook hacks.
We are going to try some very interesting things today.
I feel pretty confident about some of these things,
Some other ones,I'm like, hmm we'll see.
Anyway let's get started. I have a couple of them for you and I hope you enjoy this.
So the first hack is for people who maybe want a pocket in the back of their sketchbook,
but they don't have one.
I have a pocket in this sketchbook but I'm still gonna do this hack, because I think it's super cool.
you basically sew a pocket in with another piece of paper and some yarn
So, I got this cool thing of yarn here and
I am gonna try to sew a pocket and we'll see how this goes. I have my doubts.
Why can you never figure out what and the yarn comes out of?
Oh, you were hidden, just kidding!
You're also gonna need some sort of thing to poke holes in your sketchbook.
I'm gonna use this. So, just kind of line your paper up.
I'm gonna put a cushy thing under this. I don't have craft foam,
but I have a paper towel ya'll then you just stab the holes. Oh yeah! This works.
I'm going around a second time and making the holes bigger because there's just no way this would work.
My worst fear with this entire hack is just poking my finger. If you have a foam block, you should use that.
This paper towel isn't quite cutting it. Next if you have one,
Which I could not find mine for the life of me. Use a yarn needle to string your yarn through these holes.
Hopefully this should be easy-peasy, right?
[Loud squeaking noise]
Oh, I don't like that sound. Oh my goodness.
[Loud squeaking noise]
Yeah, I'm gonna get some haters in the comments because of this noise.
This is so weird. I'm sowing paper.
I'm just gonna tie big knots on mine, 'cause I think that it would kind of look cool with my theme
You can tuck yours wherever you want, keep going.
[Relaxing music]
Alright it is done. It looks like this. I think this is so cute
So I'm gonna put some stuff in the pockets and see if it holds up alright.
I have this mini gouache painting I made and
Oh look at that. It is the perfect little fit. Oh, that's so cute. Oh my goodness, ha, it's a little plant.
Ha ha.That's adorable.
Okay, we're gonna also test it and put some of these illustration boards in here
Like that. Look at that. It fits.
See if the sketchbook shuts. Oh, look at - Mmm. Ten out of ten!
I'm shocked. Ten out of ten, for sure. That's cool. I like that one. Good hack!
Okay, the next one is gonna be a little messy,
we're gonna use string again this time. We are also using ink.
Alright, I have -
All sorts of inks, so I'm gonna fill this with these inks
and then we are gonna do chain pulling.
I don't know if you guys have ever heard of this before, but this is a great for a sketchbook.
What you do, is you take this piece of string, you can dip it in ink and
put it in your sketchbook, and then you pull it out and it makes a really cool design.
So we're gonna do this. Oh, I'm so excited!
[Relaxing music]
All right, we have a blank sketchbook page ,a couple pieces of string.
I'll start with this bluish-green. This is awkward. I should have done this different.
I'm probably gonna have this all over my hand.
Here's our inky piece of yarn.
I'm just gonna put it curled up there and just leave it like that.
I should be using a thinner piece of string I think.
[Laughs]
Oh, man. I'll just do some other curly design.
Oh, oh, oh. The other end got in the yellow. Oh.
I'm already making a mess. I have this baby piece of string for the yellow.
Put this guy in the middle. All right. I hope this works. I'm pulling the blue one first.
I am just going in different directions,
Trying to be creative. All right, don't suppress my creativity. Oh,
There's some other colors coming out on this. Oh man. Oh, man. Oh, man.
Okay, let's do magenta. Whoa!
And this yellow. I'll pull it around different areas more than the other one.
Okay, it came out orange so what does that tell you I'm nervous to open this up.
WHAT!?
This failed, man, I should have used thinner string.
I was so afraid I wouldn't have enough ink.
I have an excess. It kind of looks pretty cool. Right? I mean Oh, oh, drip-age.
I'll just put that down. I definitely think it looks cool for something abstract,
but I wish I had done a thinner string and twirled it all over the place, you know.
The one on here, look how fancy that looks.
I just kind of thought I could make something cool and it didn't turn out great.
I guess I'll give this one a 6 out of 10 and the missing 4 points are for my own sheer stupidity.
[Laughs]
I have some leaves
These smell good.
They smell kind of burnt, but they're just
kissed by fall.
I have some leaves and we are going to paint them with ink.
This guy here which is probably on the corner, somewhere on this screen.
Says to paint leaves with ink and it looks really cool when you press it on paper.
We're going to try this in our sketchbook.
So I'm taking this really textured fall leaf, and I'm going over it with some black ink.
See what happens when I press this. Mmm. Yeah, this leaf does not want to soak up any of it.
Probably would have been better to do it acrylic paint.
Gouache or something.
Doesn't want to cover the leaf, press him, use this paper towel because I don't want ink on my hands.
Lift this guy up.
This doesn't even look like the picture uh-uh.
What? No.
Come on, really?
This is the print of our leaf.
It kind of failed. I feel like I should be using a different kind of medium than this blotchy black ink.
I have a slightly munched leaf. I think a rabbit got to it. I don't know. We're gonna paint it.
Oh, this is even worse. All right, this is gonna be a fail guys. Look it doesn't even soak in.
I'm just gonna quick, drop it. Huh!
No! I'm trying some brown gouache now. We are gonna do this!
Should have done that from the start got the baby painted. Let's press it.
I should have done the back of the leaf. It's got the thick veins on it.
How many times can you mess something so simple up? Oh, this looks cool!
Yeah! This looks a lot better. Like you can see the veins and stuff in it.
I know what you're probably thinking,
Miranda this is overkill. Why are you doing another leaf? Oh, this is really fun. I'm gonna do pink now.
All right. Well this work or be a complete fail?
Moment of truth, come with me guys.
We're gonna lift it. Oh.
Yes! Oh, we have some bleeding.
Look at that though. I should have done it like this from the start.
Yeah, you know what this just captures the reality of Pinterest
All those projects look so perfect,
Everything looks so pristine and then it usually takes multiple tries
and it's a disaster, but you might get like a half good one.
I mean, I feel like that's pretty accurate from my Pinterest experiences
Can anybody else relate? I am gonna give it a score of
Seven.
it took some trial and error. That's all.
This one is really, really cool.
It might actually be my favorite one that we're gonna try but this person on Pinterest
basically drew some sort of doodle on one side of the page
and then, on the other side of the page, they just carelessly wrote their thoughts without a filter.
It seems like these thoughts reflect their interpretation or feelings that they poured into he sketch.
Which is so cool to me.
So, I feel like I want to doodle something and I'm gonna keep it simple too
and just use black markers or pens,
and write carelessly.
[intense music]
So I drew a very lanky character,
Because I've been really into these shapeless, disproportionate,
just really lanky people who look kind of awkward and usually they look cute like this,
and then I wrote my thoughts and
This person kind of turned into me during that time. I started writing a lot of my own deep thoughts.
The first sentence: Intimidation of immortalized ink.
'cause I know I'm about to write my thoughts. this character kind of turned into part of me as I was writing it.
So yeah, it is something I would have never thought to try in my sketchbook.
But I really like this and I think this is a great thing to do in your sketchbook.
I think it's actually really healthy for your mental health for taking pressure off the art and just
I don't know. It's a nice way to express Yourself.
So 10 out of 10 on that Pinterest Sketchbook hack. I love it.
Well, I think I'm gonna stop at those for Pinterest Sketchbook hacks,
because I feel like this video is gonna be long.
I have a board of other sketchbook hack type things.
If you want to see more and let me know.
I'm all about these filling your sketchbook videos without pressure.
Just kind of doing what you want.
I am going to credit Chloe Rose art in this video because she does a lot of Pinterest hack videos
I just I think she deserves some credit in the art community for doing those.
Bringing them into our community and she's a really good friend of mine.
So you should check her out. Anyway. Alright guys,
Thanks for watching.
If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up and I want to hear from you down below,
You know what? I want to hear from you. Tell me which Sketchbook hack was your favorite in this video?
Tell me if you have tried any of these and if you have any other really cool hacks, leave them down below.
Let's spread some inspiration. If you're still here also comment the words:
"Unicorn cheese" down below just so people wonder what is going on. Why did you say that?
I think that kind of thing is hilarious. It always makes my day when people say that kind of stuff, okay.
Have a good day. I'm gonna go now. Bye