How To ACTUALLY Use A Sketchbook | Your Sketchbook's True Purpose
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I like having multiple sketchbooks, so I can pick out which one I want to draw in depending on what I feel. I have a main sketchbook, where I want to make things look interesting and full or finished. And then I have a lot of loose sketchbooks where I just doodle and allow myself to be messy and scribble.
If anyone is reading this, I'd like to present an idea. Allow yourself to use random scrap paper and rip them apart and glue them to a page. If you mess up, paint over it or glue something over it or use sticky notes. I like making my pages look as interesting as I can this way. Right now I'm making a spread out of crayons , I messed up and glued a ripped page of a book over it . It makes it feel less intimidating and more interesting
I have a sketchbook I started in 2020 that I kinda gave up on so I'm trying to finish it finally. It has a lot of unfinished drawings/failed drawings that I really hate so I like putting sticky notes over those drawings and drawing something new
@@redbengal16 ohh that sounds fun :0 I had a sketchbook like that once, and it took a year to finish it because what I would do was cover up the drawings with construction paper and just cut out drawings from my doodle books. I don't recommend I feel like melting everytime I look at that sketchbook . Sticky notes are more interesting :D
As someone who's a young artist who's currently is painting in their sketchbook I really appreciate this video Oliver thank u 💗 ❤ 💖
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@@ghost_boy2724 ah thank you my dyslexia isn't helping me rn 😭😭😭
Personally, my sketchbook has become like a diary to me. I have a problem with keeping rubbish like sweet wrappers, pieces of boxes, labels and receipts, so I just slap em into my sketchbook, doodle around them, make some scribbles and bam there's my whole mood for the day. My sketchbook is a representation of my mental status, and I consider it a window into my imagination :D
i like hardcover sketchbooks because they fall apart less quickly, and it provides a more stable surface to draw on.
I'd love to see a trend where people show their best and then worst sketchbook sketches. It could be a lesson to beginners that not every work has to be your best!
That's why I think is good to keep many sketchbooks depending on the skills or stuff you want to work on. For me it works like this, I hope it helps somebody:
- cheap sketchbooks for FULL anatomy practice and line practice. Don't ever finish a drawing here! I also limit myself to use pens or force myself to never erase if I use pencils (the thing is to train focus and practice, not making "beautiful" drawings).
- medium quality sketchbooks for finished drawings, wether they're colored or not. I use them for my character concepts.
- mix of these on iPad for digital practice and finished works. I do recommend trying many drawing apps!
In my experience, you don't need expensive sketchbooks, unless you use watercolor, copics, etc., which usually need a specific type of paper.
thank you for this video i usually just do finished stuff in mine because i like it in one place and i was sick of hearing people say your sketchbook isn't for finished illustrations it's for sketches you are right it's for whatever we want it to be
It's such an efficient way to store it, and then you can take them out and enjoy them, instead of having them packed away in a portfolio
I used to be kind of jealous of those beautiful sketchbooks you always see on youtube. But I knew it would be a lot of work to make every page look good, and then I'd get lost in that rather than just drawing for fun. So what did I do? I keep 2 sketchbooks now. One I call the "artbook" and one is the "sketchbook". My last "artbook" took over a year to complete, and I spent a lot of time making it look neat. It's one of those more expensive sketchbooks with thick paper and a hard cover. I'll add things like washi tape, watercolor and stickers to make pages look cool. I'll make finished illustrations and spreads. Even the more messy sketches I'll take time to refine. It's something closer to what you will see on youtube. And It's the kind of book I would feel comfortable showing other people.
While the "sketchbook" is just for some free non serious sketching for myself. It will often be one of those cheap sketchbooks with thin paper you can get in random stores. I'll make random doodles, thumbnails, warmup sketches and just draw whatever I feel like. None of the pages will look necessarily "pretty" but that doesn't matter, it's just somewhere I can chill out for a bit. It will be chaotic and messy, and I rarely have any sort of finished drawings or color in it, compared to the "artbook" where I have a lot. And though I don't know if this is a method that will necessarily fit everyone, it has been working out for me. Now I have a space where I don't need to worry about everything looking good, but also a good looking book that I can be proud to show off from time to time.
I love this idea of keeping two separate sketchbooks for different art (one for very neat art and the other for just having fun and whatnot), definitely gonna try that soon. Also beautiful profile picture!
@@will_wontt yes! It's been so much fun for me, so I hope you also like it :D and thanks for liking my profile picture :>
I needed this exact video at this moment. I have a moleskin sketchbook, and it's costly for me, especially living in a small northern Canadian city where there are barely any art stores (and shipping is REDICULOUS). This eased my mind a bit. I gave myself crap because I messed up a marker drawing I made in this sketchbook, but now I feel better about it.
I’m having a really hard time with my art. I’m practicing and improving but everything just feels so empty and dead. I want to be able to look at my sketchbook and see creativity, emotion and art but all I see is empty pages. There’s paintings and drawing on all the pages but it’s like they aren’t even there. They aren’t bad and I don’t hate them but I’m starting to hate art and I don’t know what to do. I’ve taken breaks and experimented with new things but nothings working.
I feel this way a lot too. I think this empty feeling and art hatred always comes up when you're improving. Its like an awful lump you got to draw out
this could be because your drawings dont have "meaning". so if your drawing a person that just looks cool, instead make it a charater. or if your drawing a cool building or castle/bedroom etc, instead make the building have a 'story' for example; not just a castle but an evil castle, then you can draw who would live in that evil castle, draw what the gaurds would look like, draw a scene that happens in this castle (eg a ball, a fight scene etc). or for person think of this persons personality or draw what they do on the daily,, draw what kind of friends you think this person may have. and for animal; think of where it likes sleep or how it hunts its food and draw that. or if your showing emotion in an art piece so for eg, if its sadness and its of a person crying, think of what this person is crying about and draw this person with something that shows the sadness (if there lonely, you could have them in a room with people having fun outside the window and have the lonely person looking longingly at them) and if you want, you can even start getting metaphorical- so a person who had a breakup but the painting is of this person holding a broken vase of dead flowers. the idea here is adding a story/context makes you have more direction with what you want to draw and what you want to practice. atleast it helped me (ur comment sounded alot with what i was struggling with once, my drawings looked cool/pretty but felt empty/un inspiring) (soz 4 the long comment) :)))
@@42lexicon Thanks for the good advice! I also struggle with this. Since I don't express my emotions openly, it's hard for me to make my art do that. Seriously though, your comment is really helpful! :)
@@42lexicon I have a really hard time expressing emotion through any kind of media. I have fully written stories in my head that I’ve worked on for years but I can’t get any of it out my head no matter how hard I try and how much I practice. I love these characters and I want to bring them to life so bad and it’s really frustrating not being able to. Thanks for taking the time to write that comment though and I hope other people find it helpful.
@@electricwolfy6567 you could look up videos on expressive and how to make your art more dynamic or how scenes/backgrounds can make your art more alive,,, or my tip,,, draw your current mood (what ever mood it is) until you slowly start getting better at showing emotion,,, but of corse you may need something else, just keep trying out stuff/practicing (or the opposite- take a break) i bet you’ll figure out something that works for you and where you want to take your art!! just never give up,,,, cuz ive felt stuck b4 and now ive got clear direction in what i want to do with my art,,, hopefully this helps you in some way :) even just to get you thinking :)
I have a stupid many number of sketch books. One for character designs and concepts, One for anatomy, one for finished human illustration, and the last one for on the go art scribbles
I finally have been drawing in my sketchbook alot more. I am currently using HIQ
Watercolor Fine Stroke that I got from Five Below, and when I tell you I am not disappointed in how I kept going back and just do doodles and gradually becomes more detailed drawings. The sketchbook itself is a ring one but it's small and doesn't give me anxiety that I'm not doing enough. Yeah there some blank pages but they could always be filled with random stuff. I plan on using scrap paper that is used for paint sloshes that will be pasted in there for a collage.
Granted some, if not most of the pages are Vegeta, from Dragon Ball, and tbh drawing him is fun and makes me happy. If I have a new style I want to try, I draw him. I am expanding myself to drawing my ics again but hey, 😏✋🏾 I gotta eat my vegetables.
I love sketchbook tours and just drawing, painting, etc. in mine along side who ever I'm watching is just a great feeling. Even if mines isn't fabulous, it's mine. And it great.
It's yours, practice the way you want and have fun. Use glitter glue, paste photos, laminate your favorite characters on pages and make notes on the with doodles....do you. ✨🌈💕
at this point i just keep a several sketchbook for concepting and experimentation cuz i just want my main one to look Really Nice lol. same w keeping my school sketchbook apart from my regular one, the school sketchbook is messy and all over the place and sometimes there will be notes or quick character designs and while fun, it’s different from my main one, cuz the main one is just to draw my own ocs that i know well cuz its comforting
Yo, Oliver, I recently made my own sketchbook mainly using your tutorials! It turned out really good and I cannot wait to make another one, even though I haven't used the first one yet. It just felt so good to make something like this.
My sketchbooks are mainly filled with my OCs, different outfits, poses, alternate designs, references, sometimes vent art. I do notice my improvement whenever I look back at the previous sketchbook (s), and that's always both exciting and relieving.
I used to be so jealous of artists showing off their sketchbooks. I would compare myself to hell and back. Nowadays, I just sketch whatever I want and I absolutely enjoy doing it. Problem is, sometimes I don't end up finishing a sketchbook because it fills me with that dread of not having one and trying to keep it for a little while longer before it's filled out.
This video helped me realize why I keep a sketchbook. I like to keep track of my progress and how my artstyle has evolved over the years. Even my sketchbook before the one I'm currently working in looked so different and I have improved in such a short amount of time. I just like flipping through them and seeing my progress it's fun :)
I have just recently gotten a new sketchbook after deciding I wanna take art more seriously, so I've been super intimidated to do much in it without a real direction, but this has helped assured me I don't necessarily need a huge overarching plan or finished work everywhere
same
So as an old person(tm) on the internet I remember the ye old days where there wasn't sketchbook tours. it's a blessing and a curse. I think it's funny that we're even having this conversation. I don't know I didn't have to think about what the purpose of it was I knew it was for me and only me. I kept so many of them just to look back on how far I've come and I love them all even my beginner work. They're like a beautiful little time capsule into my mind seeing what I was obsessed with, what OCs I started to develop I'm kinda glad I didn't grow up around this Era of exposure. At the same time though I love watching sketchbook tours and sketch with me streams or videos. It's like having a friend chat while you draw. I've even learned a hell of a lot more from the younger generation than I did with the old heads! They kept all the good stuff hidden away unless you had actual art classes or college level courses. There wasn't shit I'm glad I'm in the future now it's a much kinder environment that's willing to be open. They have opened my mind up and I'm glad. I just wish there was a better balance but I suppose that comes from the proverbial you and how you handle your social media use. Mental health is so important to me and I just want the youth(tm) to be alright and not give up just because it doesn't have perfect composition or they feel their skill level isn't up to par. Sorry old person rant but I just care that the kids are alright.
Thank you for making this video! I've seen a lot of people maybe subconsciously maybe intentionally shaming people for using a sketchbook one way or the other. It's great advice to use your sketchbook however you like and draw what makes you happy (like busty ladies for example 😎) or practice or whatever! 💕 Again thank you for saying it out loud ☺️. Keep up the great work!
Gotta say, the best drawing in this video was that Zola doodle😤 But seriously I loved all the artwork in this video and just the general insight!
I wanted to keed a sketchbook for finnished drawings, but it became a sketchbook for pen sketches and I love it more then forceing finnished stuff
I literally love just using my sketchbooks to draw guilty pleasure personal art. I do all my heavy story stuff digitally cause it's easier to keep certain stories in one place
I use my sketchbook for literally anything and everything so it tends to look like a huge mess, but I love it and it's nice to hear that it's fine since other people usually give me crap for jotting down notes in it, because it's not art
I’m so excited to watch this! I’m going into my first AP art class next year and i need to make sure i know what to do
This video actually reminded me of something lol. I know you don't have to, but could you perhaps make a quick guide tutorial to drawing mechanical objects? I always look at these complex things and never know where to start
I love this. i always enjoy your sketch book videos. My sketch book means a lot to me and I enjoy the journey of making art in it even if they're just doodles.
i stopped drawing in a sketchbook for a while because i felt it just dint look good as like other sketchbook artwork posted online + im more of a digital artist
i dont often doodle that much anymore like i used to, like its weird saying that because i draw on my computer a lot but i usually intend of posting it somewhere whether its publically on twitter or showing it to a few friends .
and when i draw stuff in a sketchbook , i usually intend keeping it to myself and dont feel like sharing (unless it looks particularly good or something) since theyre all just messy sketches that look kinda ugly
usually its full of comfort stuff of OCs or characters i like and i stayed in comfort zone
after watching the video i was thinking of getting new sketchbook eventually get out of the comfort zone.
You have no idea how much I needed this 🤧🤧 I was going through a big artblock since I forced myself to draw other stuff even though my fav thing about art was drawing my silly oc over and over again.
Thank you so much Oliver ;-;❤❤
Heylo Oliver! I’ve been watching you for almost 2 years now and your videos are always so helpful! I always keep up to date with your vids (for the most part lol) (ngl I your like a comfort ytuber for me I always go to your channel first when I’m having a rough day) btw Congrats on starting T! (Ik I’m late 🥲) I’ve def been struggling with my sketchbook as of late- I am so close to being done so I’m super motivated but I’m frusterated because recently it’s felt more like work than fun and originally my purpose for my sketchbook was to relieve Stress and process through life shit. So thank you this was a really helpful reminder and some really helpful advice! As a small art ytuber myself I hope to improve and create such a good community like you have! I hope you have a great day or night!
I haven’t really watched any of your videos in like a year and a half and (please take this as a complement) I am genuinely amazed by your progress
This was so calming thank you!
sketchbooks are one of my favourite things ever! much like you i use mine for whatever i feel like doing, which definitly helps enjoying to work in them
Its so pretty watching you draw 💖💖💖
holy SHIIT oliver!!! i haven't watched you in a hot second and,, your voice!!! congrats man
im wanting to get back into drawing again and videos like this is really good for me to watch. i feel like it really helps remind me that im drawing for myself and it doesn't have to be perfect and im not trying to be the next da vinci lol. i think what im gonna use my next sketchbook for is just to draw what makes me feel good bc i wanna be able to look back at my art and feel good about it. :)
Thank you for making this video! I really needed a reminder about sketchbooks’ real purpose :’D
Amazing video! Made me want to buy a sketchbook and try it out
This is good advice. Good work to everyone currently working on their own unique sketchbook for whatever purpose you granted it!
I actually saw that you can bind sketchbooks yourself after you make the art, so that way you could choose what drawings you include to make a nice portfolio of work!
Oh my god It's actually been quite a while since I've watched one of your videos xD and your voice sounds SO DIFFERENT. anyways I really enjoyed this video!
Omg it's been longer than I thought since I've watched one of ur videos and ur voice is so deep now !?!?!?!? Bro it kinda shocked me lolll but u sound great
this sparks joy
The sad part is my friend who is perfect at drawing does not get a sort of respect on the internet for her gorgeous drawings. And what’s really sad is that most artists on the internet barely get acknowledged on less their art work is like the top best in the world. I wish people like her would get more respect for the internet but anyway, I love your drawing and it’s gorgeous!❤️
Until last year I never could use sketchbooks (or nice journals either). I realized I have no problem writing in spiral notebooks so I decided to buy less fancy sketchbooks and realizing they were just like a journal, not art. And their purpose is to be messy and embarrassing, except they aren't embarrassing since I don't think they are art and I don't show them to anyone. So now I've been using sketchbooks!
Olivers coming in clutch with the tutorials haha >:O
my current sketchbook is half OC spreads and half Susie Deltarune fanart, and I love that sketchbook not because I love how the drawings look but because I love drawing those two things
Drink everytime oliver says "sketchbook"
(You won't be alive anymore tbh)
(Edit: btw you've inspired me for 2 years now)
By drink you mean water, right 😤
@@OliversAntics69 they will die of water overdose
@@OliversAntics69 HEHE OFCCC I mean if you drink too much water you explode right?👁👄👁
@@DeviantYoshie Exactly
I expected this to be a guide to use sketchbook in one way and Tried to avoid it But now that i watched it, its Actually Different than what i thought. thanks for this video!
Honestly my sketchbooks consist of hyper fixations, shit, OCs, more shit, and did I mention cursed? This was super insightful though your videos are always interesting to me
Oh I should probably say something about this
I get the smallest size of portrait strathmores, and then I draw in 10 dollar medium boy portrait sketchbooks and actually draw in those, and then I collage those drawings into the baby sketchbooks. I love it, and if I wanna do a big drawing, I do a big drawing baby. Then I fold it up and write “There is dude in here” on it and tape it in there. It’s great, I’m 9 pages into my most recent one, I’ve got a lot more pages to go, and the 9 pages are so thick that it’s thicker than the like 91 other pages. It’s thin paper but that doesn’t matter cause the 10 dollar medium ones are really nice paper.
I fell into the whole trap of making my sketchbooks look as pretty, elaborate and *aesthetic*✨ as possible esp because I show them online but now I've stopped giving a shit and my current one I'm trying not not use any colour to experiment a bit. At first, making them colourful and pretty was fun and I tried to experiment a lot as well but then it got overwhelming and then I realised what's the point? I'm supposed to have fun here. That's why I'm only drawing in black brush pen for this current one and It brought the fun back to making sketchbooks :D I also stopped writing the dates on it because I also pressured myself into rushing through sketchbooks in order to film them
I agree with you. A sketchbook is what you decide to make in it. I keep 2 sketchbooks at once. One has tan paper in it. Sometimes I just feel like drawing on tan paper.
10:30 until this moment, i thought that was gonna be a lightsaber LMAO
Omg i started my first sketchbook 3 days before you started this one🥺🤗 (I mean that in a good way not a trying-to-one-up-you way lol)
Pov: I'm the fruit fly in your room :)
Rude 😡
Ooh this is an Interesting video, i have so many sketchbooks that haven't been used yet lol
I bought another sketchbook an hour ago, thank you🙏🏻😂
Interesting, I must find out this purpose, AS SOON AS THE VIDEO LOADS
I just realized you started that sketchbook on my 14th birthday which was a couple weeks ago
good timing for me haha
I personally use my sketchbook for practice ^^
I used to absolutely hate using sketchbooks but maybe it was cos I never knew how
OMG HAVE YOU STARTED T?? I haven’t watched you in awhile and you’re voice is so much deeper than I remember
Yup, I've been on it for 7 months!
@@OliversAntics69 omg that’s so long XD I’m so happy for you!!
the purpose of my sketchbooks are always to have as much fun as I can :]
one of my favourite things about doing art at uni is that it forces me to keep two sketchbooks. one where I simply draw gay shit, aka my regular sketchbook where I draw finished stuff, sketch, draw steam engines because that's where my brain is right now. and then there's one where I do stuff I'm forced to do for class that I don't like and also stick fifty pictures of whatever the hell as inspiration and write down my process and honestly it's freeing
I actually use a sketchbook to draw sketches for my Friday Night Funkin' Mod!
I use my sketchbook to be the first half of my art process. I'll draw the picture I'm making there and then transfer it to my art program on my tablet to make it digital
I couldn’t help but notice the last tour was of sketchbook 20… could we be in for a triple Oliver sketchbook tour™️ in the future? 👀
"Same anime girl from the 3/4ths angle" DSJKSDFSDJKFHF
I found watching sketchbook tours kinda counterproductive. My skill level is nowhere near to those artists and my sketchbook currently is for studies, experiment, practice and a whole lot of frustration, but watching those amazing, tidy structured sketchbook videos mostly just taking away time from me actually drawing and gave me the feeling how inadequate my skill is. My sketchbook is for learning, building a visual library and figuring things out. Nowadays I watch free art/anatomy videos, tutorials of gesture drawings and beginner watercolour videos.
I don't mind having mutilpe sketchbooks it just takes up alot of space, i have one that's just for class acrylic paint work, i have one thats a mix of random sketchings from high school and now for class pencil work and i have one for "im in the mood to draw but dont feel like using my drawing tablet" each sketch books has a diffrent purpose and look to it but i like to look through all of them because i can picture where my head was at at the time of drawing! None of them are perfect and thats fine by me because it give me a break from digital art
My sketch books usually contain the things that i like/ care about theyre not usually meant for anyone else except myself unless im drawing for that person. I wouldn't usually draw anything i dont like unless it was for someone else. And thats rare cause most of my peices are for 100% me. It may sound kinda selfish but its my sketch book so i can do whatever the frick i want with it. Honestly at this point if a drawing looks like shit i look at and go "it is what it is" and move on. Cause no one else but me sees it.
Just in the first couple minutes sketchbook and ass do not sound like words-
my sketchbook is quite honestly my only safe space, so i really had to stop myself from being so hard on my sketchbook. because what's the point of a safe space if even then im being so negative to myself?
Love the idea Purple Sketchbook, Pink sketchbook etc. I may steal it hihi. Page 3 is my favorite, I really like the design of that character of yours. Also, how much time did you spend to finish those pages? I feel I am really slow at drawing and I would like to improve my speed, don't know how tho.. Well, I am waiting for a full sketchbook tour. And obviously I have to go find your pink sketchbook tour right now. See you around ^θ^
How long I spend on a spread really depends on what it is. The last drawing took me about 30 minutes, but the page of studies took me about an hour. Also, feel free to use the color sketchbook idea!
Should we count how many times the word "sketchbook" is said in the video (i tried but lost count at 30)
Kinda unrelated to the video, but where would I commission you?
I literally have 2 sketchbooks goin on at the same time all the time
I have a Din A3 sketchbook and a Din A5 usually
The bigger one (A3) is just for figure studies MOSTLY sometimes I do just randomly draw my oc's or make fanart but with the stuff I learnt from those studies
And the smaller one is both for a Manga I'm currently working on and all of the above, sort of a very messy whatever the fuck I feel like doing at the time sketchbook
BUT another one of their purposes are: Sometimes I feel like drawing B I G and sometimes I feel like drawing smol because I hate wasting space on a big ass sheet of paper when I feel like drawing small but I usually just end up drawing like 4 things max and so the smaller sketchbook is better for that in my case
Also sketchbook doesn't look nor sound like a word anymore what have we done-
noot noot
noot noot
A fruit fly in the bi guys room?
There’s a joke there somewhere 😂
I draw whatever but primarily bts
There's a fruit fly in your room cause it knows you're a bit fruity
First
Lmao
Congrats
i keep a sketchbook so i dont hafta draw on ugly lined paper and have somewhere to put all my art
i like binding my own sketchbooks and painting the covers really nice so it distracts ppl from all the gay OC shit inside :D
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I haven't watched your videos in a bit....and your voice......is different...
I'm about 7 months on testosterone 😌
I love your videos and your art and I've been watching you for a while but I stopped and I just started watching you again and did you go on testosterone because you voice sounds different than the last time I watched you
Yup, I'm about 7 months on t!
why do...*you* keep a sketchbook though? (if comfy w saying)
why u sound different in 2019