Sketchbook flip through and idea collecting, a fun exercise for when you’re feeling stuck
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- Опубліковано 26 жов 2023
- Hello and welcome to the video. This week I am trying something a bit different; I am going to be creating a jar of ideas for when I am stuck for something to draw. to start it off I am going to look through two of my old sketchbooks and write down some concepts that I never used in finished work. I have had a few requests to do a sketchbook tour and also, I think it’s a good idea I was a bit worried about doing so. Not because I was embarrassed but because 99% of my sketchbook work is very rough and not that fun to look at, I have only recently stated using colour and painting regularly in my books. Still, I thought it might be nice for you to see some behind the scenes stuff and some of my scribbles
I don’t know if this is a good idea but I thought I would try it and maybe you can too! Let me know if it has given you some of your own ideas and if you are going to try something similar with your own old sketchbooks!
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That you for sharing your beautiful sketchbooks!
gosh your skills are so insane ;o; everything looks incredible. Loove your music choices too haha
Thank you!
this is a great "not sure what to draw" idea, thanks for sharing i love looking through sketchbooks
You're so talented. Thank you so much for sharing your sketchbook, love to see more!
Thank you so much!
Gorgeous! I enjoyed this very much! Thank you for sharing your sketchbooks with us! I really love seeing the rough and unfinished pictures! There's something very beautiful to me about seeing a person's progress of an idea. It's like watching someone think! For possible jar ideas; What about some pictures of animals or fairies snuggled into their beds and burrows cozy and warm? I also have a picture idea I'm working on of fairies or elves preparing for winter. I want a scene of them re stuffing their pillows and quilts, or mattresses with dandelion fluff and cotton fluff from the cottonwood trees.💕💕💕
Thanks for the tip I will add it to my jar and good luck with the fairy picturers they sound really cool! :)
Excellent drawings! I love Green Claw!
Thank you!
Hi, I just came across this awesome sketchbook tour and I will say that you’re amazing. The details in every page has me jumping for joy, you draw really really well and have inspired me.
Thank you so much! ✨
You are so talented! What an amazing imagination!
Thank you!
I love your style! Your sketches look like a researcher sent out to study creatures and jot down their findings if that makes sense :D Its so cool and so pleasing to the eye how theyre all laid out!
Thank you so much 😀
to see your "doodles", and then to hear you hadnt been taking art seriously is mind-boggling. Your work is beautiful. i absolutely love it 1
Thank you so so much! sorry for the slow reply!! ✨
Oh my god, your style is amazing!!! I've been drawing all my life as well and my sketches share many mythical themes with yours. I hope I can be as good as you one day. Trying very hard rn not to feel sad at how incredibly talented you are compared to me!! 😅
Thank you so much 😀
Love the sound of the sea😀
10:42 really like that tiger on the left of the page🥰
lots of good ideas to draw in that little jar now😀
You have such an unique style and so many lovely ideas! Love the jar idea too :)
I was wondering if we’d get a sketchbook tour, thanks for sharing.
I went to Uni a while back, went there late in life cos I was looking to get a new career, B+Q wasn't cutting it ;) - anyways I did illustration. My sketch books were empty. The only things in them, were the assignments they gave us. See I was already old, 30 in fact, and I was already pretty good (passing was gonna be a formality for me), I only did a degree cos I needed one for the job I was going for. But there was a young kid (they were ALL young kids, I felt ancient) there called Kieren who was really nervous. Had a HUGE beard to hide his face, at just 18, could tell he'd been bullied a lot. Really defensive, closed off etc.
Anyways, he ended up sitting next to me. I guess cos I am really stable, relaxed, etc. And in a way I kinda protected him from the cliques that had already started forming in the group, with Kieren being outside of all that. Every time we got a new topic or brief from the tutor, say we had two weeks to come up with the final piece, what my process was is .... I'd sit there and I'd think. And think. And I might write stuff down, but I'd do the sketching in my mind. I'd literally spend days, even a week, before I drew a single thing and by the time I started actually drawing or painting it, I'd know pretty much what I was gonna do.
Kieren was totally the opposite. This kid next to me, he'd already be flipping open his latest sketchbook (they didnt last long with him, new sketchbooks) while mid way through the tutor telling us the brief. After 30 minutes he'd be 6 pages in. I'd sit there fascinated, watching him out the corner of my eye, smiling to myself thinking "GO ON KIEREN!". His mind was incredible. This kid would attack it, straight from his head. Sometimes I'd interupt him and ask "What's thatm Kieren? What you doing there?" and - after a few months and after I'd gained his trust - he'd stop and start showing me his ideas and explaining them.
I always thought "Jesus man, if YOU don't make it as an illustrator, the world is fucked up!". So creative that kid was! Really hard worker. The way he saw the world was tragic but hilarious at the same time. He'd turn anything, even a random encounter he'd had with an old man at lunch break at the Tescos which *he* viewed as a staring contest, like two cowboys facing each other in a shootout, neither backing down or looking away, and he put that down in the most hilarious comic strip in one of his books. I was in stitches.
I looked after Kieren, he was my pal and he always listened to an idea I had and gave me Kieren style feedback on it. Great guy.
Me? I'd do that 5,6 even 7 day thinking period. Get my idea finally in my head. Get wasted (cos the work was done, right?) for a few days, maybe take a few days off. Then wake up hungover, 2 days before the deadline, and get to work! One shot, one drawing, but execute it well because of my experience with drawing. My tutors hated it, what I did, all except one who told me "Don't worry, whatever works for you. I was the same, and my tutors hated me too!".
But my favourite days were the crit days, where we'd sit round the table and show each other what we'd been working on, explaining our ideas. Not cos of MY work! I rarely had anything to show, it was all in my head! But to listen to Kieren go through his 2.5 sketchbooks that he'd blitzed in a week! 🤣 And listen to his awesome ideas. He really showed the others up, hopefully humbled them a little too.
Thanks for sharing your story, I just sketch my ideas so I dont forget them, its everyone to their own😀
Loved this video. My son said you have a relaxing voice. 😊
I am always in awe of your talents! I feel like I have a lot of sketches and ideas that never go anywhere too...Looking forward to what you do next x Nell.
Oh thank you!
nice
You remind me so much of "Karou" in my favorite Book "Daughter of Smoke and Bones" from Laini Taylor❤. She likes to draw little fantasy creatures in her sketchbooks, too. Do you know this book series?
Hello and sorry for the slow reply. Thank you for the suggestion I’m going to go have a look at the books. Unfortunately, i haven’t heard of it until now but it sounds really interesting!! thank you 😊