yep, that's right!
today we're going to be taking a look inside my 22nd sketchbook
you'll see the good art
the bad art
the scribbles...
[thinks for a moment]
and the more... detailed scribbles
[giggles]
so yeah let's take a look shall we?
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oh and before you ask, this is the Illo sketchbook you can see their logo back there
it's an 8 by 8 square sketchbook and then I drew the little hearts and
the title on there with some acrylic paint that I also put some on the side
so I can put it in my bookcase and reference it easily if I need to for
some reason (I've never had to reference a sketchbook) it could happen
here I have some thumbnails for my opening spread which is this one and I welcome
you to my sketchbook and I also put the dates that I filled the sketchbook with
in it's been a little while I'm finally filming this it's ok
there's some sketches here
here I was designing a character kind of based off
a character I've already drawn before a bit of like a fairy princess but there's
like feathers I don't know it doesn't entirely make a lot of sense
here I was trying to come up with like some ideas for how I wanted to draw some characters
of mine so I was playing with the art style and the proportions of the
bodies (I really like this page) I was designing like postcards that maybe they
could be featured on - you can see how their proportions look and how
they're a little bit different then maybe my style was before these and
there's Weelz, I think this one was supposed to be me and then we
have Skoot. - I don't know if I drew Dex oh! there she is right there!
and there I drew all three of them together: Dex, Weelz, and Skoot - here's a
character I created actually filmed this but I just didn't like the way it turned
out so I never posted that one
you'll see the further we go into the sketchbook
my go-to is there just draw random girls with very similar hairstyles over
here we have my original character Maggi and oh! I was looking for this! I
couldn't find it - I really like how I've broken down the shapes here so there's
like a circle for the head, a little triangle for the nose, and like a square
for the ear and I kind of just break down the shape so that I can draw my dog
who's walking around right now
[talking to dog:] you wanna say hi?
is that you?
is this you?
yeah hopefully you'll see that drawing in the future I want to
use it for something and here I started doing the I think it's a hundred faces
in ten days challenge I don't know if something that's going around YouTube a
lot of other artists were doing it - I can't remember what channel started it but I'll
find it and link them somewhere
this first couple that I did so you have to draw
ten faces in a day and they link to a Pinterest board that you can use for
reference if you'd like so these are all from that Pinterest board so you might
recognize these faces if you've seen any of those videos which other people have done
yeah these were a lot of fun I think it ends around there then these
are just some sketches from my own ideas it was just a large project that I
wasn't ready to start at the time so maybe I'll tackle it again later I think
I learned a lot about like the cheeks structure that I didn't really
understand before so that was really cool here's some thumbnailing for an
idea from an art box these were ideas - I was trying to come up with what to use
my yellow art supplies cuz I do a thing where I draw with every single art
supplies of a single color and for yellow I really wanted to do something
family, friendly.... family-friendly?
family and friendly
that's what yellow makes me
think of, so those are some ideas there - this I think was like a Sketchbook spread
that I filmed - this was trying to use gouache again which I hadn't used in a long time
oh this is one of my favorites oh I love this page
I like the way the colors work
together then I have some yellow ideas on this side there
testing the art supplies
here I was again thumbnailing some ideas for my yellow video you can
kind of see how I like pinpoint the idea a little bit more
here I was playing
around with that art style from earlier
here I was feeling ugly
here I tried to draw myself
I tried to like use my fingers and without using a reference and like
figure out my proportions but this is not right
so like you could say these circles for all the fingers and I would like keep
slapping my face just figure out where and the distance between all of my
facial features but somehow this doesn't look anything like me
because I think you need to actually know the shape of everything to be able to
figure that out - interesting tidbit I learned there
here I was using Posca pens for
an entire illustration which I don't often do and I was
trying to come up with an idea for a character for that - my favorite thing is to
kind of come up with characters and as you can see here just drew the same one
over and over again I really like the colors of this one and the way the
yellow and the magenta look together
these are all done with the Dr PH Martin India inks
you can kind of see how you can get pin points by using a
dip pen and then if you use a paintbrush mixing with a little bit of water you
can get those fun washes I need to use those more! oh there's so many art
supplies I just want to use more like I really want to get back into sculpting
but it's just it's a bit more of a time-consuming art medium and I just
haven't been able do it anyway here's that same character I kind of tried
experimenting with a different outfit and maybe giving her body art
oh here I
was trying to come up with an idea to use on a wood panel because I bought
this four pack of wood panels that were all perfectly square and I wanted to use
watercolor on it but I ran into a few problems this is the idea I ended up
going with --I can actually just grab it and show you
since it's never gonna be a video
oo you can kind of see the process of creating the character and then this
is kind of what it came up with I ran into a lot of problems and ended up
using some opaque paint on top of it to fix a lot of the mistakes and then I
just started doodling on top of it and I liked it a lot more now
but that's not
what it looked like after I was done with the watercolor cuz yeah this went
through a long process
I don't hate it anymore but I didn't quite turn out the
way I wanted to and then I started layering more stuff on top until it had
like so many different things that would distract you from the parts I didn't
like and now I kind of like it mm-hmm that's how that happened
back to the sketchbook
this is a pretty sparse page it's kind of rare for me I must have
been going through a thing
some more character designs
oh "drawing in the dark" I guess I didn't feel like turning on the light or
the power was out so these are some sketches that they drew in the dark this
I think we're moving into Mermay - this is one of the first years that I didn't
draw Mermay sketches in my sketchbook I used a bunch of a5 paper because I had
all these grand ideas that I could do with them if I didn't put them in my
sketchbook but I kinda regret not putting them in my
sketchbook because now I'm probably never gonna like bump into them again
you know?
they are just in a folder somewhere
here's some ideas I wanted to
try and create my original characters as mermaids so like Pedals and Weelz - you
can kind of see I was experimenting with that didn't get too far
again this is a
pretty sparse page but I kind of like this drawing right here
this was a #drawthisinyourstyle
so I recreated a drawing by Vanessa_draws and that's one of the
ones that I kept in my sketch book
here I was drawing a bit of a fairy character
again using feathers I don't know what in my head connects feathers with
fairies but there's another one of those
oh this was a drawing that my friend
asked me to draw - this is experimenting with some art supplies from an art box
again more experimenting trying to figure out how to use them they were
very thick art supplies and it was very hard to like pinpoint any sort of
details and here I think this is the first time I tested my Ohuhu brush marker
here is another mermaid drawing that I liked so much I decided to stick it in
my sketchbook (what were they called?) they were... oil sticks? pastel oil sticks? or something? so
it like feels very waxy if you touch it
here I was testing all of my pink art
supplies so that I could use that for drawing and here are some thumbnails for
ideas - I ended up drawing a bit of a 'mean girl' or kind of like a it was inspired
by a mean girl but ended up being kind of very cute and she looked very pleasant
oh here I did a video on filling in a spread when you have no
idea what you want to draw so you can see up at the top left I just started
drawing random old things and then we connected them and created a character
because creating character designs is what I like to draw the most and we ended up
with this beauty right here
our little minimum-wage high schooler
here's some more experimenting I don't know went through a lot of phases where I just
didn't feel confident in my art and I think that's the ones where I'm not
filling the spread as much but I do like the way these sketches kind of like fill
the page like that
for this one I picked random art supplies out of like one of my
containers like this I think I picked two or three and then I tried to make
art with it
here's a spread I filled using really dark mostly black ink I
think I use a little bit of purple and blue here and there
but I just wanted to draw something dark and emotional and this is what I came up with
I really like the depth of these pages like they really stand out
compared to this one
this one I decide not to draw on this side just
because I think it was still wet and here we have some Jet Set Radio fanart
I'm a bigger fan of Jet Set Radio Future personally but I really wanted to draw
Mew's design there
here I was concepting some ideas for like a surfer character
kind of like in Pokemon how they have like a male and a female version of like
swimmers, youngsters, trainers, and things like that that you can battle I kind of
wanted to take that concept and create my own swimmer characters and here I
tried it again but doing it with a youngster character
I drew them some
more here I was trying to plan out my outfits I don't know if you can see that
anymore wonder if I could take like a white
gell pen and outline them so you can see it a little better -- can you see it any better
now? maybe not. I might look a little self-obsessed, but yeah there's three of
me right there
here I was thinking I was testing out the OHUHU brush markers so I was
drawing my original character Weelz over and over again with her friends
Dex and Skoot, in the background there
here's some more thumbnail ideas
because I wanted to try and create something with play-doh and it kind of
like came up with this design but It didn't quite work as well as I wanted it
to - you can see like play-doh dried play-doh bits all over the place
but I really like the
way this sketch turned out so I would like to turn that into something else in
the future maybe
oh here it was when I was playing out my ATC cards I wanted to
create one for like all of my original characters this is Weelz, Dex, and
Skoot. here's another random girl character
which happens a lot - here I was thumbnailing some ideas for my draw this
in your style where I recreate your arts and so these were a few that I had
chosen and I was trying to come up with an idea of how I would lay it out on the
page - here I have my original character Petals just chilling there
this was from a
video where I challenge myself to see what I could draw in one hour so I
started with absolutely no idea of what I was gonna draw started there went
through and I actually came out drawing which I don't have here I
actually moved to a whole new A5 sheet of paper and I created this
character with like it was kind of similar to this but I had like smoked
and stuff so if you want to see that I guess let's go check out that video cuz
it's not around
here is when I was trying my hand at like graffiti I really liked
this one still I actually moved it onto a much larger canvas again I think was a
big wood panel and I you know tried that out - I did a lot of research for that
video but I was still very wrong or misunderstood a lot of the things that I
looked up so I kinda want to try that again with my new knowledge so...
there are so many things I want to do so many things!!! and then we have a beautiful
Blub-fish over there
this is a page where I was having so much fun with the
graffiti that I just wanted to really make a mess and not worry about how it
would turn out in the end so here we have just a bunch of splotches and you can
see I like tested that idea where you use a paint marker and you just splotch it
hold it to the side like this and then it just drips down and it's a lot of fun
and I really enjoyed this page but my favorite parts are just like drawing
random shapes and you know just making a mess and not worrying about how it
turned out because I get really stressed that way my Art's not turning out and I
think this was really good therapy for me and it might be about time that I do
it again
and I went back to creating more characters mostly faces cuz those
are like my personal favorite thing to draw I think I was listening to an audio
book like the Lord of the Rings when I started drawing these pink ones here and
I just like trying to draw Rose, and I really like this face right here I think
that one turned out really nice - oh yeah look here's Frodo right there oh and
then I drew my doggy cuz he was laying and looking at me so that's him there
and I was having a lot of fun experimenting with circular shapes and
drawing faces with circles so those are - I really really like this style and I'd
like to experiment more with that I've kind of been leaning towards a more
cartoony art style lately I like to experiments, to change it up
this is more my art style that I kind of when I'm doing digital art though I feel
like I have more room to experiment with more detail or "realism"
[note the air quotes]
it's obviously still very cartoony but I have a lot more room to
change what it look like and like edit things as I go whereas
in traditional art you have to like erase and then it makes a mess and I
don't know digital art is still my baby - I really miss digital art
so here I was kind of
trying to like organize all my junk and figure out how much of each thing I had
if I ever gonna buy storage solutions for them instead of just
leaving them all over the place so it's kind of like trying to organize it by
quantity so the bigger the square the more of it I have I got really confused
so it didn't really work out but it would be really nice if I could easily excess
what I want when I want it you know
here I'm trying that sort of round art
style again not quite capturing it as well as I like these I think this one is
more 3d and this one feels very flat so i need to figure out what the difference is
there and fix that in the future
here's what I was attempting to draw roses this
is still my favorite one I think that turned out really well apparently I was
a little sad - i drew someone very sad here
here are some more Blub-fish but I've
been trying to experiment with drawing characters that are more
three-dimensional and aren't so flat I think it really helps the art look
better overall so I've been kind of trying to experiment with that - here we
have a little gymnast I was using some spectrum noir markers the new ones with
the brush tips I think Jazza redesigned -- these were not his exclusive set this is
a nice like pastel set I really love the colors in this set it looks like a
sunset oh it's so beautiful
I was using those for this character
here and then I used the yellow one for Weelz - you can see I'm just trying to
recreate what I really liked about those earlier sketches that I showed you that
we're very round I'm trying to like capture why it is that I like them so I
keep trying to like draw it over and over again just trying to take in the
knowledge and yeah here's more of the gymnast doing gymnasty things
here we have like an older Magna girl it looks like some more sketches these ones are a
little bit looser less refined and then he I tried to draw a Charmander from
memory even looking at it I can't figure out what makes it not look like a
Charmander but it just doesn't
decided to draw a male character so here
we have a little dude with glasses
a girl...
and a girl
our gymnast is back
here's a couple faces I was trying to
experiment using specific shapes so here's the circle one here's more of an
oval, triangles, squares, blobs I don't know - and we have a little Blub-fish
drawn in pen and some more pen sketches oh and then here this is some art that I
did a very long time ago because some reason when I was doing A 'Designing a
Character off of 3 Colors" I think was the video or something I decided to
start in the back so I started here these were the three colors that I got
this is what I started drawing from that I came up with like a word
association designed our character yeah it's back in March and I further
experimented with the character design then started throwing in the colors to
see how well they looked and how I wanted them to look in the finished
design, this is something I actually just drew the other day I saw a girl with
these giant um flower earrings so I wanted to give that a go myself and I
tried to recreate the hairstyle as well I don't know pretty people be pretty
that's just what they do I guess
and then here we have the final character
that I came up with for Olivia isn't she gorgeous? so it was based off the three
random colors that I picked and then I also just chose a skin tone because I
didn't really want to draw a blue person or pink person so I got a nice natural
skin tone there so yes that is what I drew in this sketchbook but also -
what is cool about this sketchbook, is it has a little pocket so I have no idea what I've put
in here we can take a look-sees
oh look there's our little surfer boy that I was
mentioned earlier
oh here's my color key when I was testing to make my sculpture
I was just talking about how I wanted to do this again - it's been months since I've made a
sculpture like a real one but I created this like fantasy lion with like flowers
growing out of their Mane so this was like a little color key when I was
trying to figure out what colors I wanted to use and then here is when I was trying
to figure out what size I wanted him to be he doesn't really look like this but
I was kind of just trying to visualize the size of the lion so that I knew how
big to make the sculpture so yeah! those are what's
in here! - there is oh oh okay there is my sketchbook
and it's time to start a new
one I do have one more Illo because when I bought this one I bought two so
I'll probably be using that next I've also been using a travel sketchbook
since I've been traveling I think I'll just keep that one separate and start
another one of these because it's just a little bit smaller and if I need just
travel to get took in the future I don't want to have filled it with sketches
that I've made at home so it is time to start another Illo
let me know what you
think I should draw on the cover of it I know before I have drawn characters on
the cover and then more recently I drew just the words and little design I'm
currently taking ideas
when I was 14 I think.. or 13
13 or 14 was my very first
sketchbook and I've actually chronicled all of these sketchbooks on my youtube
channel I'll have a link to the playlist where you can check out every sketch
book I've ever filled all 22 of them it's definitely a journey of art it's
been over 10 years of sketchbooks so you can kind of see how my style has changed
different things that I've experimented with along the way
and yeah things like that let me know what sketchbook you are on how many you
filled or if you're on your first sketchbook that's so exciting
I think keeping sketchbooks was really the beginning of my art journey
so I think they're very important to have even if you don't finish them just
having someplace to gravitate towards when you feel like drawing is just so
important anyway yeah thank you guys for watching I'll see you guys all next week
and I hope you have a delicious evening full waffles!
BYE!
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