Alright you lot!
Back with a new video, bit later than planned but as I said, it’s a pretty hectic time.
Hope you’re all enjoying this holiday season, and uh yeah, so for today’s sketchbook session
i decided to spend a little bit of time practicing drawing animals, cats in particular.
It’s nice to broaden up the range of things you draw and getting to know animal anatomy
and stuff is just useful in so many ways.
And as always I do just love an excuse to scroll through pictures of cats or bears or
any other cute creatures looking for references.
So this first one was a bit blah, I think I was just kind of warming up a bit, I really
don’t have a lot of experience with drawing cats so I just kind of had to get to know
the different shapes and things as I went along.
And you might have just seen me flip back through to my sketch dump page cos I really
liked the style of drawings I did there and I didn’t feel like that was coming across
in this new drawing so I was kind of trying to remind myself of the different elements
in that sketching style that I liked.
I didn’t quite manage to replicate that style here for the first drawing but as I
went on it did get a little easier.
I was actually tempted to give up after this first one, I hate not knowing what I'm doing,
or like knowing how I want something to look but what ends up on the page isn’t what
I had in mind.
But the whole point of this sketchbook series is to persevere and give myself a reason to
push through the limits that I normally put on myself so.
On to the next one and right from the beginning it just felt like it was going a lot better.
And I just searched like cat pictures on pinterest and drew from there.
I draw from reference a lot, especially if it's for something like this where I’m actually
trying to expand my knowledge of something that I haven’t really worked on before.
It actually doesn’t hurt to even go as deep as like looking at the muscle or skeletal
structures while you’re at it and I’m sure I will do at some point but this was
more of just a way to warm me up the idea of drawing animals more.
Yeah so after the relative success of the second drawing, I got a bit overly confident
and decided that I’d try drawing a cat in a more difficult position.
And I regretted that decision almost immediately because I found it so complicated and the
drawing…
basically until it was almost done, just looked wrong.
Like the poor cat just looked broken and I thought there’s no way this is gonna turn
out alright.
And I mean, it wasn’t perfect in the end but it wasn’t a complete disaster and definitely
not a waste of time.
But uh yeah obviously…
big day tomorrow, gonna be spending a lot of time with the family from now until pretty
much the new year, I know I’m heading up north for a bit so it may actually be a week
or so until the next video but I have to say I’ve been really enjoying this series, loving
how involved you all are getting, its really brought back the fun in drawing and filming
so I’m looking forward to getting through the next 19 ways to fill a sketchbook.
I’d love to know like what’s been your guys favourite so far or what you’d be interested
in seeing.
I do pretty much have it all planned out but I love hearing from you all, its like the
biggest source of inspiration, you have no idea.
Err so this last cat ended up looking a bit frazzled, so I just added a little exclamation
mark next to her.
She looks like she’s been electric shocked.
But yeah, that’s it for today.
Hope everyone has a lovely Christmas and of course if you’re not celebrating I hope
you enjoy the rest of your weekend.
And I will see you when I see you basically.
Bye!