We're not too proud to admit we get emotional when Mira talks about the importance of making room in her lessons for people at all levels of ability and ambition, because we know there are so many out there who are afraid, and just waiting for a kind soul to invite them to join in! Just think of the artists-in-secret who will watch this and start a sketchbook, and how proud they will be to discover what they can do! Also, now we want to start a band called Mira and the Stylehoppers.
Yay! 🎉❤ I am just finishing a sketchbook I started in 2020. It's the first real sketchbook I've had since high-school, and you're such a big part of it Mira! I can't tell you how much I love your sketchbook videos and how you make art approachable to everyone. Whether I'm trying really hard to practice anatomy, or just filling a page with stickers it's all enjoyable, and it's made art fun again. Thank you so much for that. ❤
Love your sketchbook videos, have watched so many of your older ones recently. And boy did you inspire me, I recently started drawing again after a 10 year "break", and I found it so intimidating to start a drawing. But watching all your videos inspired me to buy a sketchbook and I have found it so fun and less scary to start projects in a little book. Thank you for making so many inspiring videos 😄💕
Hi Mira, I've just left the house for our family holiday and I've brought my sketchbooks so I can just do exactly what you are trying to encourage; Get some confidence. Loving this video so much. Thank you 😊
I think the checkerboard really elevated that page from well placed, design happy doodles to picnic illustration. Both are lovely but you were absolutely right about the background tying it together. I think I'd go even further and make it plaid, cause I like plaid ^-^
It’s been a long time since I have commented on one of your videos so I wanted to say that I’ve been wanting your videos for a few years now and I love them so much. You are so inviting and welcoming for people into art if that makes sense. Every time I get away from doing art and I get distracted by life and stress and I need a way back in to being creative your videos give me a way back and I appreciate that so much.
You have inspired me to take up drawing again, I gave up after I had my first baby but it’s been 3 years and all my art stuff got shoved in a closet and watching your videos has inspired me to pull them all back out and enjoy the process. I’ve been intimidated because maybe I won’t be as good as I was (obviously since I haven’t practiced for 5 years) but I can start small and start again and have something for me other than being a mom
I love how you are motivating and gently introduce ideas and ccreate a space for artistic liberty and creative freedom. Thank you for postiung this video, I struggle with putting pressure onto myself and my art so this is a well needed and appreciated creative break
I just love your channel! I'm fairly new here but you've quickly become a favorite! You, Rin from DrawingWiffWaffles, Moriah Elizabeth, and Katie at Royalty Soaps - I am constantly watching for new vids from you ladies! Speaking of, do you or anyone in the art community know Rin? I've been praying for her and concerned about her health. She hasn't updated the community tab or posted videos in months. I just wondered if the art TH-cam community was checking in on her. She's such a sweet soul. ❤
You are genuinely the sweetest person ever. For a fellow Stylehopper (or, in my case, Hobbyhopper 😂), it can often feel daunting to try new things or push yourself that little bit further because often the examples we see are of people who aren't hoppers. They have spent years or even most of their lives practising and improving that one style or skill and have become amazing at it. Comparing your own fledgling attempts to someone who has fallen in love with a particular aspect, eg, charcoal portraits, photorealism/hyperrealism - are they the same thing? ‐ screenprinting or oil painting, etc, (and that's just sticking under the general "art" umbrella!) can be devastating to your confidence, but your sketchbook ideas videos always find a balance between skill and confidence of all levels. It's one of the reasons I am enjoying Fluid Art/Acrylic Paint Pouring at the moment (despite its devastating effect on my bank account, lol!😂) No matter how long people have been doing it, there's no guarantees that it will end up looking good. I can't remember if you tried acrylic pouring before (you must have, right), but if not/if it's been a while, I would definitely recommend it. While I remember (sorry! This comment is super long already!) I meant to ask you a couple of questions. The first one is art related - would it be possible for you to do a fairly in‐depth tutorial on how you paint such realistic water with acrylics? I absolutely adore how you do it, and I would love to be able to do a really moody, atmospheric, stormy ocean water painting (not your usual style, I know, but I figure the basic principle can be applied to different colours etc to create different ocean waves). Every time I have tried, though, it always seems to come out stiff and unnatural, instead of having that movement and flow. The second one (and then I will stop waffling, I promise! 😂) was actually about your other hobby, board games. You mentioned being a big Wingspan fan - have you tried it with the app thing that plays all the different bird calls? I thought that was pretty cool. Have you and hubby played Journeys through Middle Earth at all? It's really awesome and mixes little mini-figures and a co-op campaign based on the world of Tolkien, and it's a bit like the 'choose your own adventure' books/games, but on an app for a laptop/tablet etc. If you guys are Lord of the Rings fans, as well as enjoying your D&D, I think you'd really love it!
While I did think those strawberries surrounding the popsicle were mini carrots, I really enjoyed your video. I wanted to share that your videos, especially those that show how one can fill a sketchbook page, have helped build my 9-year-old daughter's confidence, and I thank you for that. It's nice watching her sit at her desk and draw in her pad
Mira when you did the portrait you made me feel better about my skills when it comes to doing portraits. See I always see them as realism not the illustration way that you did. And I wanted to thank you for it. You showed me you don't have to stick to one style you can dive in and explore others. Love these ideas ❤️🥰. You are amazing
The portrait was amazing 😍 do I have the courage to do it myself...maybe? I have grown so much in my art abilities since I've started watching your videos ❤
I'm a portrait-ish people! I actually tagged you in my latest painting where I did a portrait of a fictional girl that is kind of similar with boarder breaking and hydrangea leaves and flowers popping out all around her in 3D! It's kinda funny too cause another painting I did that I haven't posted yet, and the one I just mentioned are both similar to yours cause the one I have yet to post is all zentangled and in neon.
I kinda like that this one had less ideas. Sometimes it's overwhelming when I want to try multiple and don't know where to start. Or worry I'll forget which one I wanted to do. I love the popsicle and can definitely see myself playing with that one.
Hi, sherylann. We don't need talent to draw. We already do, from babyhood. It's only as we get older that we begin to think that we can't draw because at school we have to 'follow the rules', and we begin to compare our art with others' art. *Suggestions follow* We begin with random scribbles with random colour, and have fun. Then we begin to make shapes, and recognisable forms begin to appear - Mummy, Daddy, other people, appear as stick people, houses as rectangles and a triangle on top. It's brilliant stuff, and it's fun! And then we see what others do and the pressure is there. Oh, my word, how the pressure is there!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *So here's a game suggestion for you.* Go back to those early days. grab a piece of paper (printer paper is fine for this). Tape it to a piece of board (back of a chopping board perhaps?) so it doesn't move (just the four corners will be fine). Close your eyes and grab a few coloured pencils (children's crayons will do). With eyes still closed, put those random colours on the table beside you. Now, eyes still closed, take a pencil, and just make shapes on the paper. Scribble a few zigzags, circles, curves, whatever comes into your mind. It doesn't matter if you go off the edges of the page. Next, open your eyes and see what's there! It's a totally unique piece of abstract art! It's brilliant! Next, repeat the game from the beginning, but this time, when you open your eyes, place the random coloured pencils into a bag of some sort (no, you can't change the colours!!!) , where you can put your hand in and take one without seeing which it is. Use that colour to fill in some of the spaces. Then put it aside and take another colour (no, you are _not_ allowed to put it back for another one! ) and colour a few more shapes. Then put that one aside, and take out another colour to fill in the rest. Now you have yet another completely unique, colourful work of art. You didn't even need to think about it, You just did it. The thing is, we can all draw. We can all make colourful marks on a piece of paper, which is all drawing actually is. _It doesn't matter what it looks like to others so long as we enjoyed doing it!!!_ This may surprise you: When I'm out doing plein air, folk come by and some stop to chat. They look through my sketchbook (watercolour or pencil) and the things they stop to look at the longest and ask the most questions about are my 'play pieces' - just like the ones above, or paint dropped onto wet paper and allowed to travel across it to blend with other colours. Masking fluid randomly applied with a ruling pen across the page, and again, paint dropped in and allowed (encouraged!) to spread across the paper across the lines to blend. Dry before the amazing part - taking off the masking fluid and seeing just how beautiful it is. 'Failed' drawings which I've turned into comedy pieces by adding eyes, nose, mouth, maybe a hat, maybe a scarf, maybe legs.. Blobs of paint mix (as when testing out a mix for a painting, or scribbled coloured pencil to check a colour) which I've drawn around to produce faces, trees, cupcakes, houses, trucks... whatever the shape suggests to me. I turn the paper round if I can't see it one way up, so the 'drawings' are right way, upside down or sideways on the page. They like my 'skilled' art work, but it's these random, fun pages that they ask all the questions about, and which make them smile, and encourage them to have a go themselves. Ok, so I'm telling you all (well not quite all, it'd take too long!) of my 'secrets', but hey, why not? If it encourages you to have fun and experiment, and grow your excitement and confidence, why not? The first step in any artist's 'journey' is so rarely discussed. I've just covered it in a couple of fun games. _It's the absolute necessity for a beginner to learn to_ *PLAY* _with their tools,_ to get to know them, to get to know themselves - what makes them smile, feel at ease to use, which pencil felt most comfortable in the hand, which brush makes the best marks for each thing, which colours do they naturally reach for...how do they see this, or that, or something else.... We can only learn without being daunted by all the rules, regulations, expectations, by *PLAY* , experimenting, just having fun - pure and simple *FUN* and forgetting about what anyone else thinks. Who cares what they think? At one time, I thought the folk who stopped by would think those play times things childish. They don't!!!! Without fail they love them!!!! And they walk away with big, happy smiles, or very thoughtful faces, and then I know I've done my job - encouraging them to see things differently, and maybe even have a go themselves. And that's sooo rewarding for me! Ok, lesson over. Hope it helped in some way? If not you, then maybe someone else who was curious enough to read to the end. If it has, please do add a brief comment to this (not just a like)? I still need encouragement, too!
We're not too proud to admit we get emotional when Mira talks about the importance of making room in her lessons for people at all levels of ability and ambition, because we know there are so many out there who are afraid, and just waiting for a kind soul to invite them to join in! Just think of the artists-in-secret who will watch this and start a sketchbook, and how proud they will be to discover what they can do! Also, now we want to start a band called Mira and the Stylehoppers.
Definitely! I’m starting out after a lifetime of thinking I’m not good at art, it’s so fun!
Mira, your ability to encourage people to draw and to create artwork is amazing! Your an amazing artist and inspire me so much!
Yay! 🎉❤ I am just finishing a sketchbook I started in 2020. It's the first real sketchbook I've had since high-school, and you're such a big part of it Mira! I can't tell you how much I love your sketchbook videos and how you make art approachable to everyone. Whether I'm trying really hard to practice anatomy, or just filling a page with stickers it's all enjoyable, and it's made art fun again. Thank you so much for that. ❤
Your presence is so calming and encouraging. I appreciate you so much! Thank you for all of these ideas! 😊
Love your sketchbook videos, have watched so many of your older ones recently. And boy did you inspire me, I recently started drawing again after a 10 year "break", and I found it so intimidating to start a drawing. But watching all your videos inspired me to buy a sketchbook and I have found it so fun and less scary to start projects in a little book. Thank you for making so many inspiring videos 😄💕
I LOVE when you do several ideas in one vid. It always inspires me SO much!!!! ❤
Hi Mira, I've just left the house for our family holiday and I've brought my sketchbooks so I can just do exactly what you are trying to encourage; Get some confidence. Loving this video so much. Thank you 😊
A series of colored pencils with matching patterns to your paintbrush stickers you released would be so cute!
Wow, thanks for all the ideas! I love all of your videos and I hope you keep on creating!🤗
I think the checkerboard really elevated that page from well placed, design happy doodles to picnic illustration. Both are lovely but you were absolutely right about the background tying it together. I think I'd go even further and make it plaid, cause I like plaid ^-^
I’m obsessed with your colorful checkerboard backgrounds 🥰
It’s been a long time since I have commented on one of your videos so I wanted to say that I’ve been wanting your videos for a few years now and I love them so much. You are so inviting and welcoming for people into art if that makes sense. Every time I get away from doing art and I get distracted by life and stress and I need a way back in to being creative your videos give me a way back and I appreciate that so much.
You have inspired me to take up drawing again, I gave up after I had my first baby but it’s been 3 years and all my art stuff got shoved in a closet and watching your videos has inspired me to pull them all back out and enjoy the process. I’ve been intimidated because maybe I won’t be as good as I was (obviously since I haven’t practiced for 5 years) but I can start small and start again and have something for me other than being a mom
I love how you are motivating and gently introduce ideas and ccreate a space for artistic liberty and creative freedom. Thank you for postiung this video, I struggle with putting pressure onto myself and my art so this is a well needed and appreciated creative break
Well I had fun drawing this morning and it give me something to do while riding with my family this morning.
I enjoy yours videos and drawings
Today i just finished a sketchbook . Yay I'm so excited to start on a new sketchbook tomorrow and thank you for these ideas
This time i really like all the drawings ideas, your channel helps me to get out of my confort zone,thank you❤
I just love your channel! I'm fairly new here but you've quickly become a favorite! You, Rin from DrawingWiffWaffles, Moriah Elizabeth, and Katie at Royalty Soaps - I am constantly watching for new vids from you ladies!
Speaking of, do you or anyone in the art community know Rin? I've been praying for her and concerned about her health. She hasn't updated the community tab or posted videos in months. I just wondered if the art TH-cam community was checking in on her. She's such a sweet soul. ❤
I loved all 4 ideas!
Thank you for always come up with stuff for everyone and each level, can do! 🌸
These ideas are so fun! I love watching these sketchbook ideas videos, they brighten my mood!
Super cute and whimsical...love it! ❤
Oooooh!!!! I love the portrait so much! I haven’t drawn a portrait for a while, but hmmmmm I really wanna tryyyyyy 🤩
OMG when you started using that super sharp pink color pencil for outlines, my brain found such peace
Popsicle! I've been working on a series of popsicles this summer, so I was excited to see your version 😍
Watching your videos makes me so happy😊
I love these ideas - I’m totally doing them! 🥰
The last one has to be a sticker!! I love it!!
Also, can you do another large greenhouse design? I really loved that one you did for your mum
You are genuinely the sweetest person ever. For a fellow Stylehopper (or, in my case, Hobbyhopper 😂), it can often feel daunting to try new things or push yourself that little bit further because often the examples we see are of people who aren't hoppers. They have spent years or even most of their lives practising and improving that one style or skill and have become amazing at it. Comparing your own fledgling attempts to someone who has fallen in love with a particular aspect, eg, charcoal portraits, photorealism/hyperrealism - are they the same thing? ‐ screenprinting or oil painting, etc, (and that's just sticking under the general "art" umbrella!) can be devastating to your confidence, but your sketchbook ideas videos always find a balance between skill and confidence of all levels.
It's one of the reasons I am enjoying Fluid Art/Acrylic Paint Pouring at the moment (despite its devastating effect on my bank account, lol!😂) No matter how long people have been doing it, there's no guarantees that it will end up looking good. I can't remember if you tried acrylic pouring before (you must have, right), but if not/if it's been a while, I would definitely recommend it.
While I remember (sorry! This comment is super long already!) I meant to ask you a couple of questions. The first one is art related - would it be possible for you to do a fairly in‐depth tutorial on how you paint such realistic water with acrylics? I absolutely adore how you do it, and I would love to be able to do a really moody, atmospheric, stormy ocean water painting (not your usual style, I know, but I figure the basic principle can be applied to different colours etc to create different ocean waves). Every time I have tried, though, it always seems to come out stiff and unnatural, instead of having that movement and flow.
The second one (and then I will stop waffling, I promise! 😂) was actually about your other hobby, board games. You mentioned being a big Wingspan fan - have you tried it with the app thing that plays all the different bird calls? I thought that was pretty cool.
Have you and hubby played Journeys through Middle Earth at all? It's really awesome and mixes little mini-figures and a co-op campaign based on the world of Tolkien, and it's a bit like the 'choose your own adventure' books/games, but on an app for a laptop/tablet etc. If you guys are Lord of the Rings fans, as well as enjoying your D&D, I think you'd really love it!
These ideas are so cute!! I’m excited to try them 🩷😃
While I did think those strawberries surrounding the popsicle were mini carrots, I really enjoyed your video. I wanted to share that your videos, especially those that show how one can fill a sketchbook page, have helped build my 9-year-old daughter's confidence, and I thank you for that. It's nice watching her sit at her desk and draw in her pad
These ideas are really inspirational and I cannot wait until tomorrow or the weekend to draw them!!!
Fantastic! You definitely should draw more people Mira x Nell.
That was extremely enjoyable, relaxing, and inspiring thank you. ❤
Loved the pencil moth!
Hi Mira love your channel you give so much inspiration!!!!! 😊❤
love the dog house idea 🥰
I really really enjoyed this video and ideas. I felt like there were diff and more daring
Thank you! Love your videos.
I love them all. But really love the first two. I've never done a self portrait. I want to do one now 😁
Mira when you did the portrait you made me feel better about my skills when it comes to doing portraits. See I always see them as realism not the illustration way that you did. And I wanted to thank you for it. You showed me you don't have to stick to one style you can dive in and explore others. Love these ideas ❤️🥰. You are amazing
I love how you continue to inspire artists at every level. Love this whole vibe thank you for all that you do.
The portrait was amazing 😍 do I have the courage to do it myself...maybe? I have grown so much in my art abilities since I've started watching your videos ❤
Honestly, I don't know which one I like the most. They are all amazing.
lovely illustrations!
I'm a portrait-ish people! I actually tagged you in my latest painting where I did a portrait of a fictional girl that is kind of similar with boarder breaking and hydrangea leaves and flowers popping out all around her in 3D! It's kinda funny too cause another painting I did that I haven't posted yet, and the one I just mentioned are both similar to yours cause the one I have yet to post is all zentangled and in neon.
I love these ideas so so much!! You are an amazing artist ❤
I need that moth pencil sticker immediately 😊❤
Good, fun ideas. 😃👍
I kinda like that this one had less ideas. Sometimes it's overwhelming when I want to try multiple and don't know where to start. Or worry I'll forget which one I wanted to do.
I love the popsicle and can definitely see myself playing with that one.
this channel is so underrated
Hi love you and your videos so much!!!♡♡♡❤
Oh my gosh! I love these (but I love all your sketch book videos btw.) I will totally try these and tag you on IG!
I love the house bunnz thing, it reminds me a lot of your last vid with the colouring book, it's just so cute to draw funny houses ❤
Such cute ideas
What sharpener do you use for your colored pencils? You have a great point!
I want to ask the same😍
This is so cute=3 Thank you for the inspiration=3
Cute 🥰
I think we need a Be Brave sticker for our sketchbooks!
I'm a style Hopper to..... Not to keep up with trends but with all the different types of craft supplies that I have 😂
Just wondering do the markers go through to the otherwise of the paper ? Great imagination !!!
Everything is so cute. You should actually make the bunny house a sticker.
Another great video! What are the makers please as I would like to get some x
Why you so good at art😂
so underrated 😢
Does anybody know what acrylic paint markers those are ? :) Thxs ❤
It looks like the Arrtx acrylic markers that she has shown in other videos.
I wish I had talent to draw ...
Hi, sherylann. We don't need talent to draw. We already do, from babyhood. It's only as we get older that we begin to think that we can't draw because at school we have to 'follow the rules', and we begin to compare our art with others' art. *Suggestions follow*
We begin with random scribbles with random colour, and have fun. Then we begin to make shapes, and recognisable forms begin to appear - Mummy, Daddy, other people, appear as stick people, houses as rectangles and a triangle on top. It's brilliant stuff, and it's fun! And then we see what others do and the pressure is there. Oh, my word, how the pressure is there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*So here's a game suggestion for you.* Go back to those early days. grab a piece of paper (printer paper is fine for this). Tape it to a piece of board (back of a chopping board perhaps?) so it doesn't move (just the four corners will be fine). Close your eyes and grab a few coloured pencils (children's crayons will do). With eyes still closed, put those random colours on the table beside you.
Now, eyes still closed, take a pencil, and just make shapes on the paper. Scribble a few zigzags, circles, curves, whatever comes into your mind. It doesn't matter if you go off the edges of the page.
Next, open your eyes and see what's there! It's a totally unique piece of abstract art! It's brilliant!
Next, repeat the game from the beginning, but this time, when you open your eyes, place the random coloured pencils into a bag of some sort (no, you can't change the colours!!!) , where you can put your hand in and take one without seeing which it is. Use that colour to fill in some of the spaces. Then put it aside and take another colour (no, you are _not_ allowed to put it back for another one! ) and colour a few more shapes. Then put that one aside, and take out another colour to fill in the rest.
Now you have yet another completely unique, colourful work of art. You didn't even need to think about it, You just did it.
The thing is, we can all draw. We can all make colourful marks on a piece of paper, which is all drawing actually is. _It doesn't matter what it looks like to others so long as we enjoyed doing it!!!_
This may surprise you:
When I'm out doing plein air, folk come by and some stop to chat. They look through my sketchbook (watercolour or pencil) and the things they stop to look at the longest and ask the most questions about are my 'play pieces' - just like the ones above, or paint dropped onto wet paper and allowed to travel across it to blend with other colours. Masking fluid randomly applied with a ruling pen across the page, and again, paint dropped in and allowed (encouraged!) to spread across the paper across the lines to blend. Dry before the amazing part - taking off the masking fluid and seeing just how beautiful it is.
'Failed' drawings which I've turned into comedy pieces by adding eyes, nose, mouth, maybe a hat, maybe a scarf, maybe legs.. Blobs of paint mix (as when testing out a mix for a painting, or scribbled coloured pencil to check a colour) which I've drawn around to produce faces, trees, cupcakes, houses, trucks... whatever the shape suggests to me. I turn the paper round if I can't see it one way up, so the 'drawings' are right way, upside down or sideways on the page.
They like my 'skilled' art work, but it's these random, fun pages that they ask all the questions about, and which make them smile, and encourage them to have a go themselves.
Ok, so I'm telling you all (well not quite all, it'd take too long!) of my 'secrets', but hey, why not? If it encourages you to have fun and experiment, and grow your excitement and confidence, why not?
The first step in any artist's 'journey' is so rarely discussed. I've just covered it in a couple of fun games. _It's the absolute necessity for a beginner to learn to_ *PLAY* _with their tools,_ to get to know them, to get to know themselves - what makes them smile, feel at ease to use, which pencil felt most comfortable in the hand, which brush makes the best marks for each thing, which colours do they naturally reach for...how do they see this, or that, or something else....
We can only learn without being daunted by all the rules, regulations, expectations, by *PLAY* , experimenting, just having fun - pure and simple *FUN* and forgetting about what anyone else thinks. Who cares what they think? At one time, I thought the folk who stopped by would think those play times things childish. They don't!!!! Without fail they love them!!!! And they walk away with big, happy smiles, or very thoughtful faces, and then I know I've done my job - encouraging them to see things differently, and maybe even have a go themselves. And that's sooo rewarding for me!
Ok, lesson over. Hope it helped in some way? If not you, then maybe someone else who was curious enough to read to the end. If it has, please do add a brief comment to this (not just a like)? I still need encouragement, too!
Otherside I meant
What is the name of the pencil sharpener that you use? I can’t get any that are dull
They are so bright and childish theyre too happy for me xd
why is the sun giving Gudetama? 🥚🍳🤔
Im sorry nothing helps me with my art skills