Calarts Sketchbooks are bad for you?
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2020
- I think Calarts sketchbooks are bad for you. This is my work sketchbook. What it is, is basically the first step of every painting I do. I sketch out whatever ideas and notes for a big project here. There's a difference between the two types of 'sketching', it's just that we use the same word for both. One is the pretty kind, the kind you do sketchbook tours of. The other is the more functional kind, where it's about getting the ideas down on paper and figuring stuff out.
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As someone who has cheap sketchbooks, I find them more likely for scribbles and maybe some colouring then and there but not to drastic. I love to scribble and doodle a lot, not worrying to much of the doodles being perfect , but I do often cover them with sticky notes just to go over it again. I don't own too much of quality supplies so I mostly use what I have to draw. Though, I do have a few nice sketchbooks but I feel like I'm going to ruin them most of the time, so I put them aside for later. Often when I start a new sketchbook, I like to revisit the previous one just to get some inspiration. When I wanna do a full piece, I like to plan out stuff in them so I can later transfer that idea on canvas. Feel free to mess around in your sketchbook, try new things like a different art supply, different style ect. You don't need expensive art supplies to make art, sometimes cheap can come off better than expensive! Have fun drawing folks!
reminder: the only way to waste art supplies is to not use them
I avoid sketch book tours as so many of these “sketch books” aren’t sketch books they’re more like portfolios. It gives a very daunting and false impression of what a sketch book really is and should be.
I think the messier sketchbooks are more interesting to look at. When I see a sketchbook filled with completed colored illustrations it's a bit boring no matter how beautiful the art is. A sketchbook is the only place where you'll see process. If I wanted to look at completed illustrations I could go to any art gallery online. The process is what's most interesting in sketchbooks!
Lots of people here saying they are to afraid to use their expensive sketchbook, or too afraid to use their nice supplies. Just use them! :D You aren't wasting anything if you are enjoying the process or learning something. I don't use expensive sketchbooks often but I will treat myself every now and then because they are just nice to work in. The more you use your supplies and the more sketchbooks you get through, the more improvement you will see in your art - so don't be afraid of wasting supplies or nice paper, you are using it for a reason :)
I felt strangely soothed after watching this. I feel insecure about my sketchbook because I'm a beginner AND it's not finished pieces only scribbles. I feel a little bit better you confirming that people with ultra cool looking sketchbook ALSO do messier things but do them elsewhere
Your ideas aren't junk. You didn't fill the book with junk. You filled it with YOURSELF. It's not about showing off. It's about art.
I'm so glad you've talked about this. I see so many people setting goals to create a finished illustration on each page and it's crazy. They can't give themselves chance to explore an idea, iterate and study because they think that it needs to look like a piece of artwork as a whole. I used to think that way to a degree and sometimes I still might put a box of colour behind a sketch to make it pop out if I really like it, but working freely in my sketchbook, mostly doing studies and messy stuff has helped me to improve so quickly!
calarts sketchbooks are meant to test your abilities in making art like drawing anatomy, landscapes and stuff like that.
Yes! There’s a lot less pressure when using cheaper sketchbooks. If it’s $1 per page, I find myself always questioning if my sketch is worth it. Use the cheaper one, draw more, get better. Use the expensive ones for portfolios, gifts, or for $ale.
yes! a while ago on tiktok someone showed their actual A-LEVELS STUDIO ARTS FOLIO and called it a sketchbook. all the comments were like “puts all the other sketchbooks to shame 🤪💞” this really rubbed me the wrong way because I didn’t want people to think their sketchbooks had to look like a literal school portfolio. i also didn’t want to discourage people from perhaps pursuing art and buying a sketchbook if they thought it had to look like that. thanks for this vid :)
"who wants to look at scribbly messes?"
That's true. Also the calarts sketchbook tours kind of are making a lot of ppl to do the same "reciepe" of sketchbook
When I first started filling sketchbooks I got really self conscious about it because I thought it was too ugly. It's a shame that I kept comparing it to the Calarts submissions, since those sketchbooks weren't filled organically, they were filled as an assignment to get into an art school which had strict requirements and goals for what they wanted prospective students to have in their applications.
Sketchbooks are places to fail courageously. They often aren't pretty, and are full of scribbles, but are also where progress happens and where artists can ruminate in and explore different creative ideas. I'd have to agree with you- Calarts sketchbooks can be potentially bad because if those perfect little museum pieces of paper are an example of what sketchbook 'should' be, then it leaves no room for failure. I think what you said about Calarts sketchbooks actually being art journals is quite accurate because, bro, my sketches are scribbles, failures, and definitely not Calarts material. But that's because those scribbles are not a part of an art journal, they're in a sketchbook.
I just noticed that this got posted right when I needed it-
This is like everything I was thinking in the past 3 months Of quarantine lmao. All I have been doing is sittin on my bed watching sketchbook tours and feeling insecure. Thank you so much for this video for real! Ps. I love ur videos.
That song of storms remix is so calming man
I've never agreed more! Also, I LOVE your work sketchbook, it's always super cool to me seeing people's messy scribbles and plans and honestly I'm amazed by your architecture and perspective.
I absolutely love Calarts sketchbooks and find a lot of inspiration in them, but I agree that for many of us, it creates a real fear of messing up in our own. And yeah, a part of that is because you don't wanna feel like you 'wasted your money' scribbling instead of creating a work of art on each page.