Alright you lot welcome back.
Today’s sketchbook page is about something that I call cataloguing but that’s basically
just an extra way of saying that I draw a load of objects that all fit into a specific
category so today’s items are all things that are on my desk.
I started out at the very beginning REALLY lightly sketching out each item, just a super
quick, almost invisible outline to get the scale and positioning of each thing and then
for this first one I went in with my pencil again to add more detail before inking.
For the rest of them I think I went straight to inking, after this one I found that that
extra step of penciling gave things a bit too much of a polished look and I had an idea
in mind of how I wanted these to look a bit more rough around the edges and less proper
so yeah with the next ones I went straight in with pen over the really light basic pencil
lines to give them more of a relaxed style.
I also think the pen I used affected the style a little bit, it ended up having this look
of like, I don’t know it reminds me of the lines in illustrations in children books,
I don’t know how to explain it really.
But that wasn’t the intended look.
Since drawing this I’ve realised that a ballpoint pen is a lot better for the style
that I was going for but I’m grateful to this sketchbook series and this page for helping
me come to that conclusion.
It’s just one of many things that I’ve learned about my art over the last couple
of months.
Can’t believe it’s been going on this long now.
And thanks for the suggestions on what to do next, I have actually thought of a new
series already that will continue to work on the sort of start to finish of developing
ideas into pieces and experimenting and learning as you go.
So you no longer need to dread the end of this series cos there’s good stuff to come,
I promise.
But I’ll go into more detail about that when it actually starts.
Got a lot of planning and preparation to do first and obviously we’re on what… episode
24 of this series?
So still got a little way to go.
Anyway the purpose of this particular practice is to draw from life.
This is something we can all do and all should be doing, it’s such an easy thing to do
when you can’t think of what to draw.
I don’t mean easy in terms of easy to make it look good cos a lot of the time it’s
easier to draw from pictures than to draw from real life.
I just mean easy as in, an easy solution to having nothing to draw.
You could empty out your bag and draw everything thats in there, I feel like we all have at
least one drawer in our rooms thats like full of junk that doesn’t have a place anywhere
else, you could draw everything that’s in there.
It’s fun, you can really build up a visual inventory of all your belongings and the options
are endless.
If you bear this practice in mind you’ll literally never run out of things to draw
wherever you are.
If you’re on holiday you can draw the little shower gel bottles in the bathroom or the
tea and coffee supplies in your room.
And all the while you’re building up the skills of observational drawing that are so
important to understanding and creating great art.
So so far I’ve drawn my scissors, they’re actually fabric scissors but they’re the
only ones I’ve got at the moment, my jar of india ink, a jar of acrylic ink that I
haven’t even got round to trying out yet, currently drawing the spinning candle holder
you may have seen in a few of my other videos.
In fact it’s in the intro to these videos I just remembered.
For the next object I drew a bulldog clip, I messed it up a little bit, had a moment
of not paying attention to perspective, so it looks a little bit off, I drew a couple
of pencils which, even though they were basic they turned out to be my favourite things
on the page.
I did them really quickly and actually didn’t realise that one of them was offscreen for
quite a bit of the drawing process so apologies for that.
You don’t miss much to be honest.
And the final thing is my drawing mannequin thing which I really don’t use often enough.
I feel like the rest of the video is quite self explanatory.
So I hope you just enjoy watching the rest of it, seeing it come together.
Thanks so much for joining me today.
I’ll see you soon with the next one.
Bye!