Tbh, sketchbooks are just so that you can look back as motivation. That's why it's so useful that it shows an artist start and helps you want to be better.
Firstly - I love the video!! But secondly, as far as usefulness of sketchbooks goes, I think that for me personally it's good to have my past work to examine mistakes, examine what I did right and just simply reminisce - there are a ton of sketches that aren't exactly *good* but that I associate with pleasant memories. Scribbled portraits of my friends, cool bugs I saw on my walks, a cup of really good coffee, a sketch of my hand that I made in a quaint little ice cream place. I love having those to look through But also, when it comes to art schools and stuff, the recruiters are often interested in seeing your sketchbooks to kind of check if you have the potential for that particular class. Some of my friends wouldn't have gotten accepted if not for the piles and piles of artwork they had in their sketchbooks Generally though for me it's about the memories :) it's like a diary without words
ack! You crush me! My entire presence in the artistic field is sketching as the final product. I *love* seeing sketchings. All their imperfections and construction lines etc. etc. I like them better than final pieces I've seen. But likely I'm in the minority. Yes, a very controversial take on the sketchbook that you have. I am a sentimental person and my sketchbook reflects that time in my life. I don't think I can move into a digital book that erases every sketch because I don't do final pieces in the way other artists do. I'm just a hobby artist. I don't make a living off them. So they don't get finished. :D Also, as a fountain pen enthusiast, what else would I use my fountain pens for once I eventually finish studying? Might as well use them for my bad sketches too. :D At least the ink is pretty.
Sorry I didn't make it very clear in the video: I will still be keeping sketchbooks full of sketches. That is important to me as well. But there are some sketches that I don't see any need to keep. Why would I need to look back on a book full of poorly drawn hands for example? Sometimes I'm drawing outside of my comfort zone, really trying to push my skill level until I get repeatable results. The drawings I make in that process are chicken scratchings and repetitions of isolated objects.
@@Ashsibe For me, I'm not of the skill to improve and stay improved haha. So I tend to luck out on a really good hand that I've drawn for practice "chicken scratch" and on bad days, I go back to this accidentally well drawn hand to show it was possible and that I drew it. I do have an ulterior motive, though (those pretty expensive fountain pen inks that I otherwise have no use for or are too illegible for writing but fantastic for shading sketches). For one such as yourself, who values the art over the tools and who primarily uses Platinum Carbon Black as a favoured fountain pen ink, I can see your perspective on those chicken scratchings. In your circumstance, if I had similar goals, I think I'd be of the same opinion.
Sketchbooks are the physical manifestation of one having wasted time over and over again. That an organism that is prone to the ravages of entropy has the gall to want a legacy is hilarious. The sycophants that worry about art supplies being "lightfast" are my favorite species of Clown. 👻👻👻👻👻👻🎖
I've also given up on "waterproof" (as a fountain pen enthusiast) But as a hobby artist, worrying about lightfastness and waterproofing is in my opinion equivalent of worrying about camera gear specs when you can't do composition or lighting right.
An immortal being would require no legacy. But I am the clown you speak of. I've wasted lightfast inks for things that will never see the light of day.
Hum? Is the point not that with paper and such that you are encuraged to make something uniqe and however inconsequential it might be on its own. It still has a inherent quality by simply existing at all? Scriblings on some E-Ink display or whatever cool gaduget shown in the video that is erased the moment power is cycled? Yea sure it is useful and handy. Pen on paper is still far more interesting and purposeful. I'm not a Apple user. Have no idea what kind of storage it would take up making drawings on the regular on a Ipad. I still find it hard to imagine that it would be unfeasable to use such a device and make sketchbooks out of things. Seems like the best of all worlds. Easy to discard. Yet with the ability to complie things togheter. If ones drawings are better of not existing. Then why not let some AI do the drawings then? Seriously the inherent ability to peform something without the aids of modern tech is outstanding on its very own. The small scribling my mom do in newspapers or whatever at random has FAR more value to me then the countless of high fidelity color prints of logos and whatever new car is posted as a ad in said newspaper. And really that makes no sense if you look at it like that. How can some mindless scribles be worth more then the professional work? Even before 'AI' made music that you can listen to without turning it off in discust? Music was in general unintresting since it was mass produced with little soul or care. And still seeing somone pick up a instrument and make something actually enjoyable to listen to? It was and still is genuinely amazing! Increadible how somone seemingly mindlessly making something out of tin air! Not even trying to impress anyone. Not in for it for the money. Just making things. Playing things. It is like trying to train your gituar playing wihtout any sounds being made. Like? That is what erasing what you draw being the only option. Playing a instrument wihtout sounds. Same with people having the math skills to effortlessly do maths in their head that most people (including me) would have a hard time doing on a calculator! Most of this people are dying out now since the only reason they where so good at math was because their work required them to be able to do it fast. And without any digital aids? At best they would take out some pen and papper if the maths where mission cirtial to be done right. Or so far advanced in complexity that it might aswell be rocket sicence. If something your making is not worth keeping? Then what is the insentive to actually make something worthwhile? Even if only for your own enjoyment.
I liked your illustration of playing an instrument that doesn't make any sound. And if someone doesn't heed my warning that I mentioned at the end of the video it would be accurate. But in my case I'm playing an instrument that does make sound. I'm just playing it while no one else is listening. To practice until I can get a repeatable result. Should I be scared that each note I play is now lost to time? Should I record everything I ever play? I personally see no reason to. My goal is to learn how to reliably play my song. So I'm not exiting my isolation with nothing. I now have a higher level of skill. Anyway thanks for your thought provoking comment. And I hope mine clears up any misunderstanding on how much you disagree with me 🙃
For me a sketchbook is emotional, it's a journal like any other. I actually don't resonate at all with the way that you talk and describe things, especially talking about "legacy" or whatever... feels like men, especially white men, are always thinking about "legacy" and how they'll be seen and remembered and it's just... bizarre. I don't mean to come at your aggressively but I do feel strongly about that. yet I still think it'd be so useful for me to have something that instantly destroys my sketch and I will be trying this myself, for my own personal reasons :)
Tbh, sketchbooks are just so that you can look back as motivation. That's why it's so useful that it shows an artist start and helps you want to be better.
Firstly - I love the video!!
But secondly, as far as usefulness of sketchbooks goes, I think that for me personally it's good to have my past work to examine mistakes, examine what I did right and just simply reminisce - there are a ton of sketches that aren't exactly *good* but that I associate with pleasant memories. Scribbled portraits of my friends, cool bugs I saw on my walks, a cup of really good coffee, a sketch of my hand that I made in a quaint little ice cream place. I love having those to look through
But also, when it comes to art schools and stuff, the recruiters are often interested in seeing your sketchbooks to kind of check if you have the potential for that particular class. Some of my friends wouldn't have gotten accepted if not for the piles and piles of artwork they had in their sketchbooks
Generally though for me it's about the memories :) it's like a diary without words
ack! You crush me! My entire presence in the artistic field is sketching as the final product. I *love* seeing sketchings. All their imperfections and construction lines etc. etc. I like them better than final pieces I've seen. But likely I'm in the minority. Yes, a very controversial take on the sketchbook that you have. I am a sentimental person and my sketchbook reflects that time in my life. I don't think I can move into a digital book that erases every sketch because I don't do final pieces in the way other artists do. I'm just a hobby artist. I don't make a living off them. So they don't get finished. :D
Also, as a fountain pen enthusiast, what else would I use my fountain pens for once I eventually finish studying? Might as well use them for my bad sketches too. :D At least the ink is pretty.
Sorry I didn't make it very clear in the video: I will still be keeping sketchbooks full of sketches. That is important to me as well. But there are some sketches that I don't see any need to keep. Why would I need to look back on a book full of poorly drawn hands for example? Sometimes I'm drawing outside of my comfort zone, really trying to push my skill level until I get repeatable results. The drawings I make in that process are chicken scratchings and repetitions of isolated objects.
@@Ashsibe For me, I'm not of the skill to improve and stay improved haha. So I tend to luck out on a really good hand that I've drawn for practice "chicken scratch" and on bad days, I go back to this accidentally well drawn hand to show it was possible and that I drew it. I do have an ulterior motive, though (those pretty expensive fountain pen inks that I otherwise have no use for or are too illegible for writing but fantastic for shading sketches).
For one such as yourself, who values the art over the tools and who primarily uses Platinum Carbon Black as a favoured fountain pen ink, I can see your perspective on those chicken scratchings. In your circumstance, if I had similar goals, I think I'd be of the same opinion.
Sketchbooks are the physical manifestation of one having wasted time over and over again. That an organism that is prone to the ravages of entropy has the gall to want a legacy is hilarious. The sycophants that worry about art supplies being "lightfast" are my favorite species of Clown. 👻👻👻👻👻👻🎖
I've also given up on "waterproof" (as a fountain pen enthusiast) But as a hobby artist, worrying about lightfastness and waterproofing is in my opinion equivalent of worrying about camera gear specs when you can't do composition or lighting right.
An immortal being would require no legacy. But I am the clown you speak of. I've wasted lightfast inks for things that will never see the light of day.
Hum? Is the point not that with paper and such that you are encuraged to make something uniqe and however inconsequential it might be on its own. It still has a inherent quality by simply existing at all? Scriblings on some E-Ink display or whatever cool gaduget shown in the video that is erased the moment power is cycled? Yea sure it is useful and handy. Pen on paper is still far more interesting and purposeful.
I'm not a Apple user. Have no idea what kind of storage it would take up making drawings on the regular on a Ipad. I still find it hard to imagine that it would be unfeasable to use such a device and make sketchbooks out of things. Seems like the best of all worlds. Easy to discard. Yet with the ability to complie things togheter. If ones drawings are better of not existing. Then why not let some AI do the drawings then? Seriously the inherent ability to peform something without the aids of modern tech is outstanding on its very own. The small scribling my mom do in newspapers or whatever at random has FAR more value to me then the countless of high fidelity color prints of logos and whatever new car is posted as a ad in said newspaper. And really that makes no sense if you look at it like that. How can some mindless scribles be worth more then the professional work?
Even before 'AI' made music that you can listen to without turning it off in discust? Music was in general unintresting since it was mass produced with little soul or care. And still seeing somone pick up a instrument and make something actually enjoyable to listen to? It was and still is genuinely amazing! Increadible how somone seemingly mindlessly making something out of tin air! Not even trying to impress anyone. Not in for it for the money. Just making things. Playing things. It is like trying to train your gituar playing wihtout any sounds being made. Like? That is what erasing what you draw being the only option. Playing a instrument wihtout sounds.
Same with people having the math skills to effortlessly do maths in their head that most people (including me) would have a hard time doing on a calculator! Most of this people are dying out now since the only reason they where so good at math was because their work required them to be able to do it fast. And without any digital aids? At best they would take out some pen and papper if the maths where mission cirtial to be done right. Or so far advanced in complexity that it might aswell be rocket sicence.
If something your making is not worth keeping? Then what is the insentive to actually make something worthwhile? Even if only for your own enjoyment.
I liked your illustration of playing an instrument that doesn't make any sound. And if someone doesn't heed my warning that I mentioned at the end of the video it would be accurate.
But in my case I'm playing an instrument that does make sound. I'm just playing it while no one else is listening. To practice until I can get a repeatable result. Should I be scared that each note I play is now lost to time? Should I record everything I ever play? I personally see no reason to.
My goal is to learn how to reliably play my song. So I'm not exiting my isolation with nothing. I now have a higher level of skill.
Anyway thanks for your thought provoking comment. And I hope mine clears up any misunderstanding on how much you disagree with me 🙃
For me a sketchbook is emotional, it's a journal like any other.
I actually don't resonate at all with the way that you talk and describe things, especially talking about "legacy" or whatever... feels like men, especially white men, are always thinking about "legacy" and how they'll be seen and remembered and it's just... bizarre. I don't mean to come at your aggressively but I do feel strongly about that.
yet I still think it'd be so useful for me to have something that instantly destroys my sketch and I will be trying this myself, for my own personal reasons :)