Oh boy, it's that time of year again, where we do a sketch book tour!
Yeah! You've probably seen this sketchbook on my channel the last couple months.
I think I might have started it in August
I don't remember. I feel like my sketchbooks are kind of like my babies.
[Laughs]
Maybe I should start naming them. What should I name this sketchbook guys?
Comment below, tell me in the comments. What name would you give it?
Alrighty, ready guys? Let's open it.
Some of these things might look familiar if you've seen my How To Fill Your Sketchbook videos.
So, yeah, some of these guys are familiar I got really into Florals in this book .
this was the sketchbook that I discovered the Prima watercolor palettes
So, I bought a ton of these watercolors.
and I had a lot of fun just testing them out and stuff, in this book.
This is actually a swatch page of the palette I just showed.
I really enjoy these swatch pages and I think I'm going to start doing them more.
Also, I really wanted to practice noses in this sketchbook so I did that... only on this page. [Laughs]
This sketchbook was interesting for me, because at the beginning,
I think I felt really proud of it and I wanted to have really high aspirations
but my job got really really busy during this whole season.
I'm a graphic designer, and the graphic design work I do isn't really Commissioned work or freelance work
It's more like - I have to study trends and be really on top of it for the stuff that I do.
It can be really exhausting. So, I came to this sketchbook to kind of unwind and
Yeah, you're gonna see a lot of Zentangles and stress relieving kind of stuff,
like plants, stuff that makes me happy.
This was fun this was supposed to be Lucy Hale. You know, the girl that plays on Pretty Little Liars.
Ended up not looking like her.
It was really fun though, 'cause I wanted to practice Anatomy.
I did a lot of these kinds of pages in my sketchbook.
Basically I just made patterns with color.
it didn't take shading or any special skills really, it was more of a stress relief because
work has been very draining and I have just been wanting to relax more
These are very helpful for me. I really like them. I recommend them for anybody
who doesn't really feel like thinking about art, but they feel like moving their hands and doing some sort of art.
My go to.
Another thing I am starting to delve into is the whole draw your day thing.
There's a lot of instagramers who do this. I think it's kind of fun.
So you can look back and remember it and it gives you an excuse to draw things you normally wouldn't draw.
So yeah, this was fun. I enjoyed doing that. You'll see a couple more.
These little characters, okay.
I have been messing around with style a lot and I really like these pointy nosed characters.
because I feel like a lot of cartoon characters always have the super round noses and
for some reason, lately I've been drawn to the pointy noses and the lanky, odd look, I guess
I think it's so cute and I want to develop more characters like this this one was fun.
I made some art goals I did not achieve a lot of them
but I did achieve a lot of them too.
I've been trying to practice more Anatomy, do more biological illustrations.
I have not done the oil painting goal. I have not studied color theory more. [Laughs]
Limited color palettes, Yes this is one of my favorite things to do now.
I didn't lose my sketchbook! This was seriously a goal because I lost my last sketchbook,
and I never toured it or anything but I have found it since. I won't go over everything here.
I guess you can read that if you want.
This page I just practiced little pumpkins. I don't know, it's more of a doodle.
I practiced some hands. I actually did a video on this page.
If you want to watch that I can link it below.
I'm starting to really like drawing hands. I want to keep practicing that.
It's really fun. A little thing that I do, if I sketch in my sketchbook.
Sometimes I make it more interesting by going over stuff in watercolor.
These were just sketches. This is a watercolor sketchbook. I think that also affected how I used it.
Oh yeah! This is probably my favorite painting in my sketchbook.
Love plants and I'm really into these illustrative green house sorts of things lately.
I actually did a really large piece of a greenhouse.
The videos on my channel too. I can leave that link below.
I used gouache and watercolor for this. It's really fun and it took forever to do.
This is more of those little weird characters. I just think these are so fun.
They're so cute and just quirk. I love it. It's just so fun to make their outfits
and just make them holding ice cream. I don't know and they're a cute old couple.
This piece was just really fun.
Here are some random plants. I believe all of this is gouache,
except this pen one. I don't know why I did one pen piece, but yeah.
Another one of these. I'm telling you what guys,
this is my ultimate stress relief. This one is actually interesting because
I took this palette, let me open it up.
So I took this palette and I only used like left over areas of mixed paint.
I was like cleaning my palette but I wanted to make art with the leftover paint
and try to make something beautiful out of the things that I feel like would normally
just be scrubbed off a pallet and thrown away.
I really enjoyed this, it was very Special to me, because
if you know me. I refuse to rinse this pallet off.
I feel like I have to use all the paint that goes on this. This palette goes everywhere with me.
It feels so special to me.
It's been to Europe twice with me and
it just holds so many stories.
All this gross looking, crackled paint and stuff that went into this just felt
really meaningful and it felt like I could have a fresh start and my palette but
put some of those memories elsewhere. I know, it's really sentimental and odd, but yeah it was really fun.
Then okay this is a character I made at a little flower stand
I kind of wanted to do a flower truck in the background too.
The inspiration for it came from this little flower truck doodle that I painted.
I still need to take the washi tape off the edges of it.
I really liked the idea of doing these flower stands with these kinds of characters.
So, I don't know. I might delve more into that or this might be the end of it. Who knows.
Little coffee mug, fall definitely inspired a lot of the stuff in the sketchbook.
I made a lot of this stuff while I was travelling.
This page here, coincidentally I was travelling, with my travel palette, so yeah!
Okay, this page I was also cleaning off my palette with these lines.
So, it's not the most attractive thing
but this is - I love doing this. I don't know why. It is just really fun.
I'm gonna cover up something that I wrote here, 'cause it's personal,
but these little characters are on clouds, sipping tea.
So fun! I practiced drawing some leaves.
I just really loved nature. I was sitting inside my mom's Greenhouse thing
as I did this, in Florida. A lot of this is kind of inspired by that.
this,
this, I don't remember what else. I swatched some nail polish because, we were doing her nails.
[laughs]
My mom was like don't swatch nail polish in your sketchbook, what are you doing?
I was like it adds character I think it's kind of cool.
Here's some more of these little characters. They're kind of hard to see.
Okay, one thing I did not like about this sketchbook. I love watercolor and gouache.
Especially watercolor sketchbooks,
but this one is this so textured,
that I feel like I can't actually sketch in it. I feel like I have to do finished pieces or
use gel pens because just using pencil is - I don't know, it's hard to details I guess.
But look how cute she is and look at her little cute cat that's the same shape as her.
Oh lord! I love it.
This, I did for the 10 minute, one minute, 10 second drawing challenge.
This little character here.
Yeah, I really wanted that outfit. It looks cozy.
I really want a Peter Pan collared shirt. I can't find any good ones,
so if you guys have recommendations on where to find shirts with cute Peter Pan collars,
Let me know. I am on the hunt.
I did this draw my day and I remember this day so vividly guys.
I was trying to get so much graphic design stuff done that day and
It was pouring rain.
I think this was the day and my power went out because there's so much rain.
My backyard literally flooded. I had never seen that much water in my backyard before, so it was crazy.
It was freezing, so I made a ton of vegetable soup the day before and
hammered it that day. Ate so much vegetable soup that I was tired of it for a while
Then I decided, you know what, I am ready for Christmas, it feels like Christmas, it's really cold.
So I decorated on November 1st.
Put up my tree. I know some people probably think, yo that is crazy, that is too early, but hey.
You gotta do what you gotta do and that made me happy.
Then I filmed a video that day but, I do not remember what I filmed.
Oh, It was the 10 minute, 1 minute, 10 second challenge. I literally wrote it right there and it was that.
Drew my day again. That was November 4th. I hung out with my friend, Tanya.
Pretty much the whole day.
We had a really fun day hiking and she found the most ginormous leaf
and we were just laughing over it. It was cool.
I drew some fall leaves. I actually drew these before this day, 'cause this sketchbook - I did not go in order
I don't know why I didn't.
Sometimes you don't. You don't have to I guess.
I swatched the same palette from earlier I think,
No, I didn't.
I think I swatched colors I really liked from a couple palettes
because some of these are here but there's extras too.
I did a gradient kind of swatching and I really like doing this.
I think it helps you get the feel for how new watercolors blend out and stuff
and I think this is really pretty.
Did some line pattern things. With some Gelly rollers.
I Practiced anatomy a little bit. I have some work to do. I need to start doing longer legs.
I am very short in real life, very short. This might have something to do with it. I don't know.
Her legs should be a little longer. I need to get better at that.
Ok, yeah, another one of these cute characters with a cute Peter Pan collar.
I draw those all the time and I just really want one!
Here's these guys here, this was gouache and gel pen I think.
Watercolor, these guys, just fun little doodles.
This, was really fun I was watching the cheesiest Christmas movie
and just kind of laughing a lot and
it was a really good stress relieving time, just to watch a cheese fest and paint colorful shapes .
This page, I was gonna draw a fox and I used the wrong pencil.
It wasn't erasing. So, I painted the page yellow because I was irritated, then I literally put a Stationary card over it.
and then I put a stick figure inside and he's like: "Hey!"
Actually he's like: "Hi"
Painted some roses and then I did this little Fox doodle.
You probably - If you've seen my
Nine doodles to fill your sketchbook video, this is in there.
I don't know, I don't like that. Huuuuh! Yuck!
Little galaxy.
This was when I failed at the whole chain pulling thing because I used yarn and I shouldn't have.
I learned from it and
Yeah,
This is when I failed it pressing leaves in that Pinterest hacks video and
Yeah, we'll move on.
Another stress relieving fun, colorful pattern page. My favorite.
This was that inspired pinterest sketchbook hack thing,
that I did in that one video.
Which was inspired from wreck this journal, you kind of write your raw thoughts after you draw a picture.
This is so fun. If you like doing Zentangles,
I would definitely recommend this, you just do blobs of color and then patterns inside.
So fun! At a coffee shop and I did a donut this is more realistic.
It made me realize, I think I miss doing realism. So I might get back in to that.
it just sounds fun.
Especially people and food those two things sounds so fun.
Dude I really have no idea what I was doing with this.
Yeah, it's some sort of glowing Coral, none of the colors go together, it all kind of clashes.
I just felt rebellious when I did this.
If you look up close, there's just a lot of weird -
It's glittery and none of it goes together.
It was fun, so who cares? Here's a name pattern thing, with plants.
Fun little character.
I glued this gouache painting into this book.
Here's a watercolor painting this was fun I used a black marker to do those bushes.
Yay! Here's a little doodle self-portrait.
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Yeah, this is why this sketchbook is not great for sketching
It's just really textured. I think I'm gonna get smooth paper for my next sketchbook.
There's not a ton of sheets in this and then this I just drew some more little potions.
Then a zentangle thing up here. Jack Frost.
Pumpkin pie, a plant. Yeah, this was really random and then I just doodled some people back here.
If you want to know what this is,
This is a pocket
that I sewed in to my sketchbook. Even though I have one here.
This was from my Pinterest Sketchbook Hacks video.
I really like this idea though and I thought about painting a fish tank in here just for funsies.
This sketchbook, was odd to me. I think,
because I really just needed a spot to unwind and not really push myself super hard
I guess this, was like my stress-book Sketchbook kind of thing.
I definitely want to push myself harder in my next one, but
I think, I really just needed this one so that I could have a place to let go.
Yeah, if you ever need a place to do that, a sketchbook is a great place. I recommend it.
My artwork in this sketchbook isn't stuff that's over the top or anything,
I'm not super, super proud of it. It definitely gave me a private place to just
let my stresses go.
It was really nice and I'm really glad that these things exist.
I hope you enjoyed this Sketchbook tour.
If you are working through a sketchbook, let me know in the comments below.
I I would love to hear what kind of stuff you like to draw.
what kind of stuff you draw when you are stressed. How you deal with stress in an artistic way.
Thank you for watching. I'll see you soon in another video! Bye guys!
Have a good day!!
Woohoo!
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