If you’re wondering about the ?... well friends, I’ll let you decide what I paint for that! The suggestion with the most upvotes goes onto the other side of the sketchbook 🙌😁
oh, you are supposed to draw in a sketchbook? I thought you were supposed to buy more and more of them, let them pile up in your room and collect dust.
Heheh, damnit I identify with that very much. I have to practice self control every time I come across some fancy new sketchbook, while I have 6 or 7 scattered around my desk that aren't even close to finished yet.
I had a few sketchbooks growing up and it terrified me to “waste” paper. For such a long time I was afraid to ruin it and it’s exactly as you said, I idolized the sketchbook that it had to be perfect all the time. I purchased an iPad last year and I felt more comfortable digital drawing because I wasn’t “wasting.” (I know, I’m dramatic. 😂) Sadly enough, all those years of not drawing and thinking that I would ruin a sketchbook has RUINED ME and my ability to practice because now my skills are so much better because I’ve practiced on the iPad. 🥺 Now, I’m currently thinking about finally using those sketchbooks and improving even more. 😭
Go for it! I've personally had an unrelenting fear of putting pen to paper for 15 years (since I finished highschool) because I always thought that I could never make anything as pretty as the drawings my twin sis could make (heavy dose of inferiority complex right there). Last year I picked up a random sketchbook and started drawing and after I got past the initial fear I was chugging out sketches like there was no tomorrow. Now I'm in a bit of an art block, but I'll come back to it once I get bored of the Sims 4 XD.
ive spent less on sketchbooks than the cost of one ipad, and i still agree with the statement somehow lol. thats why im into digital art. no wasted paint, in the practice phase. i also found a solution to sketchbooks, i just buy notebooks during back to school sale for ten cents each. literally ten books for one dollar. the transfer part is still a chore though, you cant take pics of notebook paper and have ppl think its good art.
@@elrilmoonweaver4723 lol glad you got out of that and are sketching again, thats always good to hear. keep it up and just do it cuz you love it. it doesnt have to be good, you will progress anyway :) i wasted ten years doing the same thing, someone in my highschool told me my art sucks and i quit. never again.
It took me until this year to realize that not everything in my sketchbook has to be a perfect masterpiece, now I can draw doodles in my sketchbooks without worrying about them being good or perfect
I thought I was past putting my sketchbooks on a pedestal but I bought a few expensive ones and only wanted to do polished master pieces in them. I guess I still need to relax when it comes to it. Bound paper shouldn't give you anxiety
The "sketchbook tour" videos on UA-cam make people feel like they should treat their sketchbooks as volumes of finished art pieces. But eff that. It's just paper for drawing practice. If you're gonna make a finished piece of art, why close it away in a book? Do it on loose paper and hang it on the wall.
I actually love having my drawings and also finished pieces combined in a book easy to flip through rather than drawers full of loose paper. But I agree, many of those sketchbook tours just fed my anxiety of ‚ruining‘ my own sketchbooks.
Your words always pull me out of this depressing environment of social media artists. They ruined the joy for me when I already struggle with society and family view. So thank you very much!
UA-camr sketchbooks usually look unnaturally neat. I can't see the natural progression of a finished sketch or the sketches the artists make to just dump ideas on the page. I personally just dump ideas on the page and when it clicks, I dedicate an entire/the majority of the page for that and then highlight it, but until then there's a whole lot of scribbling, duds and generally making cylinders, spheres, cubes and pyramids until something comes to mind. And I do love me some shaded spheres *bliss* .
i meant it's a *sketch*book not an *artbook*. i stg i've been having anxiety ever since i see ppl fill up their 'sketchbooks' with finished artworks. this video means so much thank you
I was a Damocles' sword person until I invented a discipline for myself that I call 1 : 1 : X. Read as one to one to X. I assess the time I want to take in the studio and give equal, short pieces of time to both my sketchbook and a digital painting on my Surface tablet. -- these are the 1: 1. Sometimes it's 10 minutes. Wet painting gets the X -- the big amount of time. In other words, I parse out my available time, with a plan, and generally stick to it. This may sound stiff and mathy, but it has worked beautifully for me. Everything rises.
If you really want to, you can get a sketchbook that's as large as A3 or even A2 paper size. Unless you want to paint larger than life, A2 is a pretty large size. Although admittedly, a sketchbook in that size requires a (very) large bag if you intend to carry it around. And you can prepare pages to oil paint on, so the medium isn't a limitation either. At least, not really. I think the literal only downside is how it is harder to sell a page from a sketchbook, versus a painting on a canvas. And yes, most sketchbooks wouldn't handle odourless mineral spirits well of course, as it's not canvas but paper. And it requires a bit of a trick with wax paper to prevent pages from sticking together, aside from how paint needs to dry. I actually think there are less downsides to using a sketchbook than people think. I wouldn't say its usage is overrated. I think a lot of artists who are starting out underestimate how much it matters to draw and paint a lot, fail and learn from the mistakes. I don't mean drawing thousands of heads, each with the same mistake. I mean each new head improved based on the mistakes of the previous ones. There are also a bunch of artists, like Cesar Santos, who basically paint masterpieces in sketchbooks just because they can. However, it is easy to ignore how even most of his sketchbooks have a true learning purpose to them, like discovering and experimenting with colour palettes, painting styles by creating copies or works inspired by old masters for example. There are quite a few more notes in his sketchbooks than you might assume from the finished paintings. I would encourage painting in a sketchbook. I would not encourage treating it as a 'book of masterpieces' in which you're not allowed to fail and learn. It's also probably just commercially smart to think about what you would perhaps want to sell and therefore _not_ paint in a sketchbook, because at the end of the day it is still time and materials invested in painting something you could have done on a canvas.
You are correct about your observation about what you want to learn (painting, etc) and the sketchbook use. I like a sketchbook, to always have something to draw in handy, and to make sure I keep practicing my observational and rendering skills
If the sketchbook allows for mixed media or watercolours and has thicker paper you can prepare the paper using a layer of gesso. After that, you should be able to even use oil paint on it. Having said that, if you end up making a master piece, you might have wished it was done on a canvas. ;) I'm all for painting in sketchbooks. It definitely is something to experiment with.
You bring your sketchbook so if you see something neat you can sketch it. That's a lot easier than running around with an easel. If you happen to make a really pretty picture in it you can cut it out and that is fine; it's just the sketchbook
I work two jobs six days a week, so my sketchbooks (generally different sizes for different work situations) are for mobility and practice/explore. Thank you for the inspiration to create, Alpay, kindly.
oh my god i totally agree😫 and to be honest this video came at the right moment 😞i often have some ideas or things i wanna try but i just end up giving it up just because m scared of "ruining" my sketchbook if the thing doesnt turn up that great or if i dont feel like finishing it 😔
So cute. I’m watching you paint a hand... and I saw your thumb and I’m like oh!!! 😯 It’s your hand! 🤣 Love your colour schemes is so enjoyable... and your “Alright, welcome back friends” is so iconic in your videos 😛😆 When I hear phone start playing that I laugh.. oh it’s him! ☺️
I remember seeing the advice somewhere to start a sketchbook by ruining the first page purposefully. So that afterwards the pressure to make a "nice" sketchbook is off.
I agree so much with what you said about painting for the sake of painting in your sketchbook... Lately all the things I've been doing in my sketchbook have been simply for the sake of drawing, to enjoy the tactile sensations of it.
you speak so fluidly, so eloquently, I feel like a lot of the thoughts I have you’ve perfectly orchestrated into these beautiful videos you create. Thank you so much for everything, for your advice and content. It helps me so so much.
As corny as it sounds, I use my watercolour sketchbook to paint a creative story. Im down to 3 and I love how beat up and splotchy they all are from containing all of my creative madness 😂
I don't usually use my sketchbook for drawing because people say "ohh let me see" and judge everything, even if its a random sketch. Now I always draw separate
I haven’t picked up my sketchbook or Apple Pencil in almost a month now and here I am, binge watching all the art content I missed out on, I hate being so inconsistent but thanks that you crossed my mind yesterday before going to sleep and I feel the urge to pick up digital art again :3 I believe you once said that someone should focus on one thing and that you can’t be good at everything and throw stuff around and not sticking to a media will make it harder but I just can’t decide whether I prefer digital or traditional, it both has pros and cons Oh and also thank you for helping me subconsciously release stress, it kinda sounds insane but something about these videos is really relaxing 💕
I used to use my sketchbook like a doodle book. I would even draw stupid funny comics for my friends with semi-stickman figures. But now I have the urge to only do fully finished and great artworks in my sketchbook. If they were bad, I would cut them out or tear the page away. I put the sketchbook on a pedal stool and thought of it too highly. When in actuality, people aren’t going to see those ‘ugly’ drawings anyways and have nothing to fear. And I realise I don’t experiment or rehearse much and just do a lot of practice, so thanks for reminding me of the limitations of a sketchbook, the incorrect mindset I have and the joy of art again :)
A sketchbook is a workbook. It's where you think on the page, which is often v messy. It was never meant to be an artbook. In animation school, no one had an obsession with pretty sketchbooks because we all knew this, no one was precious about it at all. It's simply a tool, like many others, with strengths and weaknesses. To say that you can't practice large scale oil portraits in a small sketchbook is like saying that a screwdriver won't help you hammer in a nail, and that therefore screwdrivers are overrated. No! It is simply a tool with certain qualities that can be more or less useful depending on your aims and methods, and while a sketchbook alone won't teach you everything about art, it's not "overrated", if you ask me.
I totally agree with your idea about using sketchbooks as a place to learn and explore rather than a finished art piece. I still think sketchbooks are very useful for that exploration, as they are relatively cheap compared to canvas. Alongside this, I think that being able to sit down and study something at a glance no matter where you are is incredibly useful. Interesting video and it's made me think twice about using other areas (digital or not) for practice
I love my sketchbooks because they are convenient to use but I did have the problem of trying to curate them and have them contain nothing but beautiful complete works of art. I made a breakthrough when I let go of loss aversion, stopped worrying about wasting paint and time and really started to paint for the joy of it. I wouldn’t say all those years tiptoeing and trying to be perfect we’re wasted though, it’s part of your artistic journey to obsess over your sketchbook and it’s a sign of growth to get over it
Very insightful. Sketchbooks are great for logging progress. When people see my sketchbooks they’re usually underwhelmed, lots of scribbles and doodles trying to figure things out. I like buying cheap sketchbooks so I’m not afraid to pump out the fundamentals instead of trying to make a masterpiece.
I used to use sketchbooks, but I always got frustrated, thinking I was "ruining" it when I drew something less than great. But of course in this age with so much technology at our fingertips I do things much differently. I use my phone like a sketchbook now. I have a phone with a built in stylus and I have a drawing program. Boom! I can use whatever brushes I want, any size, anything I want. It's so much more convenient since it's always with me and I don't have to worry about losing it. If one sketch doesn't come out well, who cares? No one will see it anyway. I can have as much freedom as I want. It's a lot of fun. I do still like traditional art, but for sketches my phone is perfect.
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After finally committing to my own drawing/painting vision at 31 years old, I finally filled a sketchbook from cover to cover. This video sums everything I learned from that process and that my goals dont necessarily require a sketchbook to be this fantastical refined portfolio of art. It really makes one wonder why youtubers have jumped on the bandwagon for refined sketchbooks when the idea of sketch is right in the title... Love this video Alpay, thank you for doing what you do!
a sketchbook should be a place where an artist feels safe to express and experiment with new ideas. The Internet kind of ruined that. In the sense that it’s seems that every single page in a sketchbook needs to be a masterpiece
This is exactly what sketchbook is for me is a joy and no pressure process . Plus I think every art I do is a practice. There is one big plus in having sketchbook is that everything is in one place in chronological order. I often ended up smudging and ruin the result anyway.
I, personally use my sketchbook, as an art diary. I completely agree with your points made in the video. I have actually been very conscious for a long time about the environmental effects of using too many sketchbooks. After some discussions with my dad, i am finally getting a tablet to expand into digital art🥺💖💕
I use my sketchbook as a planner for my paintings or to jot down any ideas that pop in my head. Nothing in my sketchbook is really refined to a final piece.
I think of an ideal process as being 1) low fidelity - sketchbooks, thumbnails, quick sketches, with goal to study a subject or idea 2) mid fidelity - artbook, the rehearsal part, small scale, short sessions, instagramable 3) high fidelity - large scale, milti-sessions, ready for exhibits or shows, my best work. But to each their own.
Drawing tiny things in a sketchnook is what i love doing, painting on a large scale something-something is what socially expected of me so i avoid it lmao
Thank you so so much for this video ! And I was wondering what is the sketchbook you use for painting with oils on it without the paper to be full of oil smears ;-;
Like most things in life, it depends on the individual and how or why they are using it. Just have fun, make mistakes, try new techniques and most importantly: Use it!
I agree with much of what you're saying. But I had to stop listening because the background music gave me a headache. Just honest feedback. But great value in what you sai.
To me skechbook is the place where I draw CSI in any size and with any pressure to practise linework. I make value scales. I shade and texture cubes and spheres and cilinders. Fucking up shading on sphere is less soulbreaking than fucking up the shading of an arm wich I have spent one hour to draw the skecth perfect. I thing everybody who want to be good at drawing should practice the fundamentals daily.
Perfect sketchbooks aren't really sketchbooks.... (Why does this have to be said?) If everything you put in a book is fully rendered, it's not a fucking sketch. You've made a tiny art gallery that no one wants to pay for unless you print it and publish it for 10 bucks on Etsy. And even then no one wants to buy a printed sketchbook that's just finished artwork! It's a niche market where most people want to see your lines and pick your brain.
I personally feel its waste of time........using sketchbook daily..........as I have very very limited time with my regular job. so I always paint on canvas etc to get out some artwork....maybe thats wrong perception.....because i am always trying get out some artwork .......rather than just enjoying and practicing. exploring and experimentation is also equally important......but I am not doing it because of lack of time
If you’re wondering about the ?... well friends, I’ll let you decide what I paint for that! The suggestion with the most upvotes goes onto the other side of the sketchbook 🙌😁
A foot
maybe one of your figurative paintings !
a flower similar to the hand shape
cheems
A plain white canvas with a white fox hidden in a snowfield 🤓
oh, you are supposed to draw in a sketchbook? I thought you were supposed to buy more and more of them, let them pile up in your room and collect dust.
Heheh, damnit I identify with that very much. I have to practice self control every time I come across some fancy new sketchbook, while I have 6 or 7 scattered around my desk that aren't even close to finished yet.
Same
yeah ...
Wow yeah I’ve got that problem
@@joeblankenship377 I relate to this on a spiritual level.
I had a few sketchbooks growing up and it terrified me to “waste” paper. For such a long time I was afraid to ruin it and it’s exactly as you said, I idolized the sketchbook that it had to be perfect all the time. I purchased an iPad last year and I felt more comfortable digital drawing because I wasn’t “wasting.” (I know, I’m dramatic. 😂) Sadly enough, all those years of not drawing and thinking that I would ruin a sketchbook has RUINED ME and my ability to practice because now my skills are so much better because I’ve practiced on the iPad. 🥺 Now, I’m currently thinking about finally using those sketchbooks and improving even more. 😭
lol, same! I'm still working on my sketchbook idolization. Here's to us both conquering it!!! 💪🏽
Go for it! I've personally had an unrelenting fear of putting pen to paper for 15 years (since I finished highschool) because I always thought that I could never make anything as pretty as the drawings my twin sis could make (heavy dose of inferiority complex right there). Last year I picked up a random sketchbook and started drawing and after I got past the initial fear I was chugging out sketches like there was no tomorrow. Now I'm in a bit of an art block, but I'll come back to it once I get bored of the Sims 4 XD.
ive spent less on sketchbooks than the cost of one ipad, and i still agree with the statement somehow lol. thats why im into digital art. no wasted paint, in the practice phase. i also found a solution to sketchbooks, i just buy notebooks during back to school sale for ten cents each. literally ten books for one dollar. the transfer part is still a chore though, you cant take pics of notebook paper and have ppl think its good art.
@@elrilmoonweaver4723 lol glad you got out of that and are sketching again, thats always good to hear. keep it up and just do it cuz you love it. it doesnt have to be good, you will progress anyway :) i wasted ten years doing the same thing, someone in my highschool told me my art sucks and i quit. never again.
Same thing! My sketch books were so pretty, I didn’t want to ruin them with my art 😜
It took me until this year to realize that not everything in my sketchbook has to be a perfect masterpiece, now I can draw doodles in my sketchbooks without worrying about them being good or perfect
I thought I was past putting my sketchbooks on a pedestal but I bought a few expensive ones and only wanted to do polished master pieces in them. I guess I still need to relax when it comes to it. Bound paper shouldn't give you anxiety
Buy a nice refillable sketchbook! You don't have to be bound to bound paper!
The "sketchbook tour" videos on UA-cam make people feel like they should treat their sketchbooks as volumes of finished art pieces. But eff that. It's just paper for drawing practice. If you're gonna make a finished piece of art, why close it away in a book? Do it on loose paper and hang it on the wall.
Not all sketchbook tours...I’ve seen sketchbook tours that aren’t all finished pieces
I actually love having my drawings and also finished pieces combined in a book easy to flip through rather than drawers full of loose paper. But I agree, many of those sketchbook tours just fed my anxiety of ‚ruining‘ my own sketchbooks.
Those sketchbook tours make me feel bad. My sketchbook is used for practicing, and filled with mistakes, unfinished, and written ideas and notes.
Your words always pull me out of this depressing environment of social media artists. They ruined the joy for me when I already struggle with society and family view. So thank you very much!
UA-camr sketchbooks usually look unnaturally neat. I can't see the natural progression of a finished sketch or the sketches the artists make to just dump ideas on the page. I personally just dump ideas on the page and when it clicks, I dedicate an entire/the majority of the page for that and then highlight it, but until then there's a whole lot of scribbling, duds and generally making cylinders, spheres, cubes and pyramids until something comes to mind. And I do love me some shaded spheres *bliss* .
@@maimunahiqbal4106 I said "most" and within the exception I automatically imply her. She's more of a journey not destination art UA-camr. :P
Whom?
I do the exact same thing in my sketchbook I love to just draw what I feel like drawing in it have less stressful fun time
i meant it's a *sketch*book not an *artbook*. i stg i've been having anxiety ever since i see ppl fill up their 'sketchbooks' with finished artworks. this video means so much thank you
Alas, the sketchbook, that obscure living deity of paper and stitching.
Sketchbook = Scribble pad for me and that is all it ever was
I was a Damocles' sword person until I invented a discipline for myself that I call 1 : 1 : X. Read as one to one to X. I assess the time I want to take in the studio and give equal, short pieces of time to both my sketchbook and a digital painting on my Surface tablet. -- these are the 1: 1. Sometimes it's 10 minutes. Wet painting gets the X -- the big amount of time. In other words, I parse out my available time, with a plan, and generally stick to it. This may sound stiff and mathy, but it has worked beautifully for me. Everything rises.
Ah!
I've heard it referred to as budgeting one's time.
I like it. :-)
If you really want to, you can get a sketchbook that's as large as A3 or even A2 paper size. Unless you want to paint larger than life, A2 is a pretty large size. Although admittedly, a sketchbook in that size requires a (very) large bag if you intend to carry it around. And you can prepare pages to oil paint on, so the medium isn't a limitation either. At least, not really. I think the literal only downside is how it is harder to sell a page from a sketchbook, versus a painting on a canvas. And yes, most sketchbooks wouldn't handle odourless mineral spirits well of course, as it's not canvas but paper. And it requires a bit of a trick with wax paper to prevent pages from sticking together, aside from how paint needs to dry. I actually think there are less downsides to using a sketchbook than people think. I wouldn't say its usage is overrated. I think a lot of artists who are starting out underestimate how much it matters to draw and paint a lot, fail and learn from the mistakes. I don't mean drawing thousands of heads, each with the same mistake. I mean each new head improved based on the mistakes of the previous ones. There are also a bunch of artists, like Cesar Santos, who basically paint masterpieces in sketchbooks just because they can. However, it is easy to ignore how even most of his sketchbooks have a true learning purpose to them, like discovering and experimenting with colour palettes, painting styles by creating copies or works inspired by old masters for example. There are quite a few more notes in his sketchbooks than you might assume from the finished paintings. I would encourage painting in a sketchbook. I would not encourage treating it as a 'book of masterpieces' in which you're not allowed to fail and learn. It's also probably just commercially smart to think about what you would perhaps want to sell and therefore _not_ paint in a sketchbook, because at the end of the day it is still time and materials invested in painting something you could have done on a canvas.
It is always satisfying to watch you create a paint. Your videos also make me want to paint!
You are correct about your observation about what you want to learn (painting, etc) and the sketchbook use. I like a sketchbook, to always have something to draw in handy, and to make sure I keep practicing my observational and rendering skills
Love your paintings....I've never painted in my sketchbook before. Maybe I'll give it a try.
If the sketchbook allows for mixed media or watercolours and has thicker paper you can prepare the paper using a layer of gesso. After that, you should be able to even use oil paint on it. Having said that, if you end up making a master piece, you might have wished it was done on a canvas. ;) I'm all for painting in sketchbooks. It definitely is something to experiment with.
You bring your sketchbook so if you see something neat you can sketch it. That's a lot easier than running around with an easel. If you happen to make a really pretty picture in it you can cut it out and that is fine; it's just the sketchbook
I agree with everything you said! 😊
Were actually waiting for your new video :)
I feel sooo exposed! Lol. But I needed this! Thank you!
I work two jobs six days a week, so my sketchbooks (generally different sizes for different work situations) are for mobility and practice/explore. Thank you for the inspiration to create, Alpay, kindly.
oh my god i totally agree😫 and to be honest this video came at the right moment 😞i often have some ideas or things i wanna try but i just end up giving it up just because m scared of "ruining" my sketchbook if the thing doesnt turn up that great or if i dont feel like finishing it 😔
So cute. I’m watching you paint a hand... and I saw your thumb and I’m like oh!!! 😯 It’s your hand! 🤣 Love your colour schemes is so enjoyable... and your “Alright, welcome back friends” is so iconic in your videos 😛😆 When I hear phone start playing that I laugh.. oh it’s him! ☺️
I remember seeing the advice somewhere to start a sketchbook by ruining the first page purposefully. So that afterwards the pressure to make a "nice" sketchbook is off.
Godd u have such a perfect control over your brush. It's amazing!
Love your videos Alpay! Keep inspiring
The only reason I use a sketchbook is bc I throw away lose paper. I’m that messy
I agree so much with what you said about painting for the sake of painting in your sketchbook... Lately all the things I've been doing in my sketchbook have been simply for the sake of drawing, to enjoy the tactile sensations of it.
i was waiting for it two whole days i swear, i missed this voice 😂
you speak so fluidly, so eloquently, I feel like a lot of the thoughts I have you’ve perfectly orchestrated into these beautiful videos you create. Thank you so much for everything, for your advice and content. It helps me so so much.
Love your hand fist painting ..Really cool 😎
Amazing encouraging video! Thanks so much. Blessings and be safe.
As corny as it sounds, I use my watercolour sketchbook to paint a creative story. Im down to 3 and I love how beat up and splotchy they all are from containing all of my creative madness 😂
I don't usually use my sketchbook for drawing because people say "ohh let me see" and judge everything, even if its a random sketch.
Now I always draw separate
Sketchbooks go under your bed. Well, mine does.
I haven’t picked up my sketchbook or Apple Pencil in almost a month now and here I am, binge watching all the art content I missed out on, I hate being so inconsistent but thanks that you crossed my mind yesterday before going to sleep and I feel the urge to pick up digital art again :3
I believe you once said that someone should focus on one thing and that you can’t be good at everything and throw stuff around and not sticking to a media will make it harder but I just can’t decide whether I prefer digital or traditional, it both has pros and cons
Oh and also thank you for helping me subconsciously release stress, it kinda sounds insane but something about these videos is really relaxing 💕
I used to use my sketchbook like a doodle book. I would even draw stupid funny comics for my friends with semi-stickman figures. But now I have the urge to only do fully finished and great artworks in my sketchbook. If they were bad, I would cut them out or tear the page away. I put the sketchbook on a pedal stool and thought of it too highly. When in actuality, people aren’t going to see those ‘ugly’ drawings anyways and have nothing to fear. And I realise I don’t experiment or rehearse much and just do a lot of practice, so thanks for reminding me of the limitations of a sketchbook, the incorrect mindset I have and the joy of art again :)
A sketchbook is a workbook. It's where you think on the page, which is often v messy. It was never meant to be an artbook. In animation school, no one had an obsession with pretty sketchbooks because we all knew this, no one was precious about it at all.
It's simply a tool, like many others, with strengths and weaknesses. To say that you can't practice large scale oil portraits in a small sketchbook is like saying that a screwdriver won't help you hammer in a nail, and that therefore screwdrivers are overrated. No! It is simply a tool with certain qualities that can be more or less useful depending on your aims and methods, and while a sketchbook alone won't teach you everything about art, it's not "overrated", if you ask me.
I totally agree with your idea about using sketchbooks as a place to learn and explore rather than a finished art piece. I still think sketchbooks are very useful for that exploration, as they are relatively cheap compared to canvas. Alongside this, I think that being able to sit down and study something at a glance no matter where you are is incredibly useful. Interesting video and it's made me think twice about using other areas (digital or not) for practice
The painting is so satisfying to watch 😍😀
Also, you sound like the guy from audible.
I love my sketchbooks because they are convenient to use but I did have the problem of trying to curate them and have them contain nothing but beautiful complete works of art. I made a breakthrough when I let go of loss aversion, stopped worrying about wasting paint and time and really started to paint for the joy of it. I wouldn’t say all those years tiptoeing and trying to be perfect we’re wasted though, it’s part of your artistic journey to obsess over your sketchbook and it’s a sign of growth to get over it
Very insightful. Sketchbooks are great for logging progress. When people see my sketchbooks they’re usually underwhelmed, lots of scribbles and doodles trying to figure things out. I like buying cheap sketchbooks so I’m not afraid to pump out the fundamentals instead of trying to make a masterpiece.
I used to use sketchbooks, but I always got frustrated, thinking I was "ruining" it when I drew something less than great. But of course in this age with so much technology at our fingertips I do things much differently.
I use my phone like a sketchbook now. I have a phone with a built in stylus and I have a drawing program. Boom! I can use whatever brushes I want, any size, anything I want. It's so much more convenient since it's always with me and I don't have to worry about losing it. If one sketch doesn't come out well, who cares? No one will see it anyway. I can have as much freedom as I want. It's a lot of fun. I do still like traditional art, but for sketches my phone is perfect.
😮what phone is this?
@@katsmith8263 the Samsung Galaxy Note!
@@stormoftara which number???? 10??
@katsmith8263 I'm pretty sure that all Notes have pens!
yay l'm the first one for the first time anyway l really love you you really inspire me so much so thank you 😊
Some people buy the same sketchbooks with different sizes
Hello.
Because power comes in all forms and any colour.
I often find myself. In the willows behind the land that led past the fence is where it hapoenned. Amoungst the limbs grass and grains that wondered the earth before me. Growth at every turn. We are all made of dust. Stars and galaxys that intwine became whag is. Our veins like the branches on the tree. Both alive all as one. Energy fills this mind as its gods head. Only to say that before us all stands a tree. And power is to know this. Action is wisdom turned outward. Become whag you will. Produce the words symptoms. As sound and wave functions perpetuate at equal measure. Throughout it all super postion is everywhere.
Good luck.
After finally committing to my own drawing/painting vision at 31 years old, I finally filled a sketchbook from cover to cover. This video sums everything I learned from that process and that my goals dont necessarily require a sketchbook to be this fantastical refined portfolio of art. It really makes one wonder why youtubers have jumped on the bandwagon for refined sketchbooks when the idea of sketch is right in the title...
Love this video Alpay, thank you for doing what you do!
Can you do this type of painting with acrylic and can someone explain to me the benefits of oil over acrylic?
a sketchbook should be a place where an artist feels safe to express and experiment with new ideas. The Internet kind of ruined that. In the sense that it’s seems that every single page in a sketchbook needs to be a masterpiece
This is exactly what sketchbook is for me is a joy and no pressure process . Plus I think every art I do is a practice. There is one big plus in having sketchbook is that everything is in one place in chronological order. I often ended up smudging and ruin the result anyway.
I, personally use my sketchbook, as an art diary. I completely agree with your points made in the video.
I have actually been very conscious for a long time about the environmental effects of using too many sketchbooks. After some discussions with my dad, i am finally getting a tablet to expand into digital art🥺💖💕
It seems you are painting in oil inside your sketchbook. How do you prepare the paper before you start painting? Do you use gesso? Thanks!
Alpay, Ich danke dir, this is great advice for those of us "afraid".
For me, my sketchbook is my diary. I might not know exactly, what I was doing that day, but all my though are laid bare there for anyone to see.
I use my sketchbook as a planner for my paintings or to jot down any ideas that pop in my head. Nothing in my sketchbook is really refined to a final piece.
I love and relate to every word you're saying!
Just messing around in his sketchbook… knocks out a masterpiece.
Great video
I love your soundtracks. Please use a song by FRENCH KIWI JUICE next time
Great video. What kind of sketch book is that, or which is best for acrylic or oils? Which do you use.
I agree! Thank you! 👍🏽
Can you do a video about pallet colors?
I think of an ideal process as being 1) low fidelity - sketchbooks, thumbnails, quick sketches, with goal to study a subject or idea 2) mid fidelity - artbook, the rehearsal part, small scale, short sessions, instagramable 3) high fidelity - large scale, milti-sessions, ready for exhibits or shows, my best work. But to each their own.
Practice, jamming, and planning.
On the cover you should paint the hands reaching out to touch in "the creation of adam"
Drawing tiny things in a sketchnook is what i love doing, painting on a large scale something-something is what socially expected of me so i avoid it lmao
Thank you so so much for this video ! And I was wondering what is the sketchbook you use for painting with oils on it without the paper to be full of oil smears ;-;
“Painting, for the Joy of Painting” reminded me of Bob Ross 😂💕
Sir what technic do you use
sketchbook your using?
Well, that is why it is called a SKETCHbook and not artbook. Totally agree with you.
Wow, that's amazing.^^
My sketches look like shit so I always battle the notion that I need my sketchbook to be a work of art in itself
The answer too all ur questions to have a billion sketchbooks for any occasion AHHH HA HA HA
A very nice Video, and topic. :)
🥰love your voice
love how you're just casually painting and the audio's playing xD
I really found this very helpful. Very nice painting
I don't want to use my sketchbooks until I get really good at drawing.
Like most things in life, it depends on the individual and how or why they are using it. Just have fun, make mistakes, try new techniques and most importantly: Use it!
I agree with much of what you're saying. But I had to stop listening because the background music gave me a headache. Just honest feedback. But great value in what you sai.
To me skechbook is the place where I draw CSI in any size and with any pressure to practise linework. I make value scales.
I shade and texture cubes and spheres and cilinders. Fucking up shading on sphere is less soulbreaking than fucking up the shading of an arm wich I have spent one hour to draw the skecth perfect.
I thing everybody who want to be good at drawing should practice the fundamentals daily.
Nah man, what you say is like setting Up Rules for Art.
Perfect sketchbooks aren't really sketchbooks.... (Why does this have to be said?) If everything you put in a book is fully rendered, it's not a fucking sketch. You've made a tiny art gallery that no one wants to pay for unless you print it and publish it for 10 bucks on Etsy. And even then no one wants to buy a printed sketchbook that's just finished artwork! It's a niche market where most people want to see your lines and pick your brain.
I am glad that I have come to this samebrainstorming
Great video!
I like and use my sketchbooks 👉🏻👈🏻
USE THE SKETCHBOOK JUST FOR THE JOY OF IT.
Flow state 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Please please pretty please show us your art fails!!
I personally feel its waste of time........using sketchbook daily..........as I have very very limited time with my regular job. so I always paint on canvas etc to get out some artwork....maybe thats wrong perception.....because i am always trying get out some artwork .......rather than just enjoying and practicing. exploring and experimentation is also equally important......but I am not doing it because of lack of time
Never ever been this early at a video before 😂😂💙
Yessss!
small panels are superior
Please, we want a translation into Arabic🙏🙏❤
BAM animation!
Oh right 😂😂😂
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