hi welcome back actually not welcome back because this is the first time that you're here
welcome to one of two of my new art studios
i mean right now they're just kind of like empty rooms with wires and trash
but eventually welcome back to my art studio and since it's the new year 2021 this actually marks
the 10-year anniversary of the last time that i created a sketchbook i cannot believe i'm saying
this but the last singular sketchbook that i had where i dedicated all my artwork to was in 2011.
and in fact i actually still have it here with me this is my 17 year old sketchbook right here baby
and it's not that i don't have a sketchbook as you guys know i have tons and tons of sketchbooks
and the main reason i don't keep an actual one-designated sketchbook is because i switch
mediums so frequently sometimes i like to do oil painting sometimes i like to do colored pencils
charcoal drawings watercolor markers i mean you name it i love to try out all different types of
art supplies and as you guys know all of those mediums require different surfaces to paint on
so for the past 10 years my process is when i want to draw something i pick out a sketchbook
rip out the paper and draw it from there and i'm sure a lot of you guys have noticed that
it's been a hot minute since i've drawn and to be even more truthful with you guys
um this whole entire past year i was in a humongous art block and i'm sure a lot of you
guys can relate to that you know it's it's hard to concentrate when the world's on fire you know so
but it is now 2021 baby new house new studio and for the first time in a really really really
long time i'm ready to get my creative juices flowing and going so yeah without further ado
let's go ahead and start my first sketchbook in a literal decade please be gentle ah i'm so nervous
okay so it is currently day one of my three day drawing binge if you will
today's drawing theme is all about study today i'm drawing things that i want to get better
at things that i haven't drawn in a while that i want to catch up on so yeah today's
theme is all about back to basics and i'm not talking about christina aguilera's 2006 album
okay
okay day one day one is done day one was all about practicing drawing studying
and i consider it the warm-up day for the rest of the days
so the first thing i decided to draw was my own eyes in different movements
as you guys know i rarely rarely draw myself and not just that but sometimes it's hard to
find reference photos from like the exact same photo shoot so what better way to get the exact
reference photo i want than using my own face if i was ever to get my phone stolen the person
would think i'm an absolute psychopath for just taking the same photo literally thousands of times
the next thing i really wanted to work at was noses something weird about me is i love a good
nose i love the bumps i love the texture i love different sizes and colors and out of all the
noses i really like this one i think this one came out really really cool if you have the
nose that's in this shape i think it's really cool so yeah i decided to title this page nosy
now the next thing that i drew is actually a reference photo that i just randomly took middle
of the day on a whim basically uh my boyfriend zach was like setting up some stuff in my studio
his hand looked really nice in the lighting and he has a very unique hand shape and so yeah just
randomly i took a picture of it and was like yep i'm gonna draw that now and surprisingly even
though this one looks i guess the most simple this one actually took the longest because you
guys know hands are just like so weird to draw next thing that i drew was actually a really
quick study i was getting so bored with just using a black and white pencil i was like bro i need to
add some color i cannot do this so for this page i decided to do some quick gesture drawings of steve
last video i bought this for my art haul and somebody was like oh hey you should call him
steve so at this point forward when i talk about steve you know exactly who i'm talking about
now gesture drawing is really quick little scribbles of like whatever you're drawing
not only does it create muscle memory but god it is so
fun so yeah if you're like me and you like always worry about everything being perfect
try gesture drawing because i guarantee you it'll loosen you up right away
now the last drawing for day one is the best drawing that i think i've ever created if you've
seen the mona lisa forget it because what you're about to see is the greatest drawing of all time
so basically at this point it was actually late at night and i was getting really tired
what i did with the eyeballs i was actually going to do that exact same thing with lips
but i was just too tired so i love the fact that i have like all these drawings and then
all right so it is currently day two and today we are off to a very
slow start basically what happened is this morning the other tenant that used to live here
came to the house looking for his check i answered the door i set off the alarm
then the police came so yesterday was all about practicing warming up stepping back into the realm
of drawing again but today we are getting serious today's theme is all about honing in my skill
now day two was focused all about realism messing around with colors and proportions
and just like making things that look typically nice you know what i mean
so yeah the first thing that i have been absolutely dying to draw was a pair of shoes
look i am obsessed with the 60s i am obsessed with mod fashion i think it's the best fashion of all
time tell me this outfit is not just straight fire now i actually got this reference from pinterest
pinterest has all kinds of things that you can use for reference photos and draw and you know just
practice with your sketchbook a little bit you know and originally the reference photo background
was a pure white and i didn't want these boots to be just like floating in a white void you know so
to go with the whole theme of the 60s i added in a really nice baby blue which i think complements
the colors really well so yeah that was fun i love a good go-go boot uh next up we have some cherries
that i drew and even though this is like a really simplistic drawing i'm obsessed with the yellow
and the red colliding together i think it's so fun and flirty so out of all the drawings i did on day
two this one is my favorite and the last drawing that i did for day three two two and i gotta say
i went absolutely crazy with like the size of the lips i went full on like kylie jenner seems
like every time i get on tiktok now like i always see a lip drawing and subconsciously it made me
want to draw lips you know so that's where this drawing came from okay now today is day three of
my drawings and today i saved the absolute best for last the last type of like sketchbook that i
personally think of when i think of sketchbooks is really messy full of creative ideas not worrying
about being perfect colorful experimental even sloppy at times you know you know on mean girls
when lindsay lohan can't control her words and she says she word vomits everywhere i want to do that
exact same thing except art vomit all over my my oh god i just realized how nasty that sounds okay
okay day three i am so excited to show you guys this section ah okay now for day three right off
the bat i went insane i actually got this idea from a fellow artist named karina singh here
on youtube basically you just gesture draw a bunch of random faces in one continuous loop
it is so fun especially if you're like myself who's like a perfectionist and
always worried about everything try this it is so fun and by the way i do
have a photograph of what it looked like before the marker bled through
now the next drawing is actually a challenge here on youtube so basically the challenge is is you
make a bunch of random shapes a bunch of random blobs and then you have to fill it in with your
own character or ideas i really like this guy he's the coolest so yeah this is probably one
of the easiest ways to kick start your creativity is blob drawing i don't know if that's the correct
term blob drawing blob challenge i don't know i just know it's a thing now this next drawing is
my favorite one for day three now you guys know in the past i have drawn greek and roman statues
so many times and each time that i do i try to get it perfect i try to get it pristine and just
make it look as perfect as humanly possible and so i basically did the exact opposite of
making things look structurally sound i added in a bunch of sloppy lines and pen strokes and
basically just like went the complete opposite of where this drawing was originally gonna go to
so yeah this one's really really important to me
one thing that i absolutely love about sketchbooks is being able to use it as a diary to document
your life so i got my polaroid out i took some vibey pictures and this page basically turned
into like a little scrapbook you know a little snapshot of my day if you will i know i've said
it a million times but this is one of my favorite pages of the sketchbooks and this actually brings
us to the last two pages and something you'll see with my artwork is the more tired i am like
the more sloppy the artwork itself gets example a but yeah for the last page i just wanted to end on
like a really bright note like i just wanted to add a bunch of crazy colors mess around a little
bit and just end it on a really relaxed chill note you know yeah i don't know about that last one
so it's the end of the day i finished with all my drawings all my projects for the past three days
and i have seen the light when it comes to sketchbook i can see that people use sketchbooks
for learning practicing making something pretty making something ugly making something weird it's
all there i had a great time making this video and more importantly i hope this video inspires
you to go out and try something creative for 2021 it's the new year and i believe in you anyway guys
thank you so much again for watching i hope you have a good day and i will see you next friday bye