Flipping Through my Full Sketchbook #2! (tour)

all right hello everybody thank you for joining me dr. Peter drawers once again for another sketch book tour that's right I finished another sketch book and we're going to do a tour of it you can see it's completely it's hard to flip through it like this but it's completely full and I'm gonna flip through it page by page and we gonna look at it it's gonna be great little preview I mean the whole thing here there's the previous sketch book I did so it's like really the only second really full sketch book you know every side of every page I've completed if you want to see here's my first one if you want to see me flip through this one there's a video of it you can watch that so these are both I'll discuss the materials also a lot of people seem to care about those these look a lot different but they're really both on the same type of paper because I realized I like this kind of paper here's my old one because it doesn't bleed through it all so if you look at maybe a for example like this one where I used a lot of ink a lot of markers or this one for example look I just poured the ink onto this page pretty much and it didn't show through at all right that's the beauty of this Crescent render paper no show through papers they have it designed for things like as you can see you use with all media so there are some downsides to the paper like it feathers a little bit more in some papers and stuff like that but I like it because it doesn't show through it doesn't bleed through or anything like that right so I learned my lesson with this sketchbook that I liked it and I want to keep using this paper but what I didn't like about it was that it it doesn't lie completely flat so when I want to do like two page drawings and stuff like that it's hard to get the scanner to get this stuff right here in the middle right so I learned how to I learned how to I mean I watched youtube video sorry this intro so long and I learned how to do you know do some basic book binding which let me make a sketchbook like this which as you can see is a lot lies a lot flatter it's very basic stitching I didn't do anything fancy I think I looked up think her name is C lemon on YouTube you might know about her I just googled I just typed in on how to bind a sketchbook or how to make a sketchbook right and I just bought a pad of this Crescent render paper which you can buy and then it usually comes with a cardboard piece of backing which I cut in half and that's why I uses the front and back alright I think I've explained everything now all right so let's let's look at it also they also they do look they they make bigger ones too like like this this is also a crescent render notebook which I'm which I haven't worked in in a while but there is stuff in here I need to go back to it sometime but this has the same problem in that it doesn't lay flat in the middle like I really want but I should still go back to this alright looks like let's look at the sketchbook alright I think this is a good angle let's just open up and get started there's the first thing I drew in this sketchbook I went through it pretty much chronologically I didn't skip pages or anything and I think I posted this first drawing according to Instagram on March 7th 2016 so how long has that been I took some breaks from it like I didn't draw in this thing every day so but that just gives you an idea of how long pretty much in this sketchbook I mostly always used various rotring eisah Graff pens which are technical pens they're pretty expensive but they pretty much last forever also so that's those are the pens I used here okay sometimes larger pens sometimes finer pens but I think actually earlier on in this sketchbook I might still have been using some felt-tipped pens these actually look this looks like lines made by felt-tip pens I don't know if my eyes trained or untrained but that's the idea I'm kidding here's a I do a lot of self-portraits but here's one that actually looks like me no I think I think this has to have been a I think this was a road trip n every now and then I write little poems this says don't sing to me you know squeaky door that sweet song of sadness if I heard it Nevermore that would bring me gladness compose me now a silent ode of blissfulness and peace as i slather on a load of lubricating grease some crumbs or something in there must have been snacking and doodle and at the same time as you can see you can see some of the stitching the strings in the middle here sometimes when I scan these in I like Photoshop the strings out I can't remember what I did here sometimes you leave them in though because it's a it's not the worst aesthetic ever like drawing diagrams sometimes they make more sense than others here we have the the new SuperDuper yacht built for eternal floating honest I don't know what I was thinking when I drew this but maybe you have some insight now here we have a brief glimpse into a little bit of color usually if I do add color to my drawings it's one or two colors here some red with a little bit of white highlights but usually it's just black and white actually in this page there's actually a little bit of gray does this count as color I used some grayscale markers around the edge here to give it a little bit of a shadow a little bit of indentation there's some words here in the background also I was really getting into hatching here you can see here in this one and this one really enjoying hatching very fine lines tots okay really just going nuts with the hatching I really if you want to get good at hashing it really just got spend time doing it and you don't gotta do it in your sketchbook like this but do this sort of thing where you just get a piece of paper and just fill just absentmindedly fill a piece of paper with hatching where you practice creating different textures and tones dark there is in light areas and it doesn't have to be this sort of thing exactly but just just like low low importance hatching nothing too crazy this one is inspired by diagrams I used to look at of like like geological you know like showing like the different parts of like the water table and the earth like topsoil you know and then like loam or whatever you know and then the bedrock and you know volcanic whatever's this is based off of a picture no this is a I think I went to the met in New York and there might have been a what was it at the Met I saw some statue somewhere I think his name was googly knee or something this guy was as part of a statute of this guy was actually looking at it as dad I think maybe someone knows what I'm talking about pretty happy with how that one came out people are difficult like his lip looks weird but I'm telling you that's how his lip actually looked sometimes life you know reality is stranger than fiction but maybe I should have adapted it you know so I don't know let me read this poem first before I address this page there on the counter plugged into the wall senseless destruction would often befall freshly cut portions of flavorful bread too young to be pared and sandwich Li wet or soft to be slathered with thick fruity spread Oh deep down we knew that they never fled so glued to our seats we looked on and read and secretly hope to never recall what that flaming fixture and fiery gall brazen we did there in front of us all so this page here I don't know if you can tell it depends how the light shines on it but they're actually cysts there was actually something else drawn here in the background a partial drawing that I never completed and I got far far back in the rest of the drawing the rest of the notebook before I well I gave up a little bit and colored over it with some other huge like some huge graffiti I think this murder this is okay look how big this marker is that's a beat IG marker I use that on it it's a big one okay okay so I use that on it and then I use the white marker then just drew this here and then I was done with it because it had just been like loitering and nagging the back of my mind for a long time I thought I can come back to it something will hit me some some version you know some type of inspiration it'll come to me but eventually I was like so maybe not it's been a long time it's been like a year this page has been sitting here half done so I just enjoyed this here it's okay it's not you're not failures because of that I don't have things to say about every page yeah these are definitely this I'm pretty sure this was this this of 0.25 roaring what's one of the finer tips I use I don't know if you can tell the difference between this and this these are this is the 0.35 on this page is the 0.25 on this page I'm pretty sure unless unless I hadn't even gotten into their ISO graphs yet I mean this was like a year or two ago I'm I'm starting to doubt my own memory you know I'm bad at thinking into the past so I was really inspired by you know you can find weird bubbly textures in rocks sometimes so I was inspired by actual bubbles and bubbly textures and rocks here I think and splashes like frozen like were very quick frozen pictures of foam in bubbles and here I was inspired by a giraffe skull and skeleton and head this page also went unfinished just like this face here was partially drawn for I mean also maybe a year until I came back to it and completed it just like the rest this stuff all around it and everything I've been initially I was imagining making this been a fall to piece things but by the time I came back to the year later like sometimes you know because I drawn all this but that sometimes we come back to a year later you're just not feeling the vibe and the flow of it anymore so I couldn't I couldn't come back to it and pick that right out so I had to do something else and so this page also was done out of order like a year later because I had been living in blank these yeah these lines I used a point seven four so that's the largest tip I usually use excuse me this looking a little bit Cookie Monster II huh got some suspicious flow indecipherable characters down here I like those and I like what I did here was like a little outline here it was like less detail that's like I like that a little contrast and he did I like seeing looking back at my own work and then identifying little pieces little things I did that I liked and then working on incorporating those into other drawings because I often what happens more often as I see things I don't like that I did and I just thought up on those but it's good to internalize the things you do like also which I'm sure I do but you know it's easy to get hung up on the bad things like this one it looks great right but I personally remember drawing it line for line and I know I can point to specific places in this where I messed up and the lines don't look so crisp and perfect but when you just look at it all at once you know when you're not the one drawing each line one line at a time it looks pretty good it's pretty fun and satisfying to look at I'll show you see pretty much like this this whole thing this whole area right here annoys me a lot it's pretty it's just sloppy it's just sloppy none of these circles and little bumps as I call them or even and this whole it's just doesn't look good to me you know as compared compared with you know like a lot of other little circles and bumps and little Paisley mandali bits in this that one that just it's not up to snuff that's all I'm saying a little bit more color here this is colored pencil and this one is a little bit sloppy a little bit rough I did this one I think with a fountain pen I think the co EcoSport which is right here so I used this pen for this one tweet go sport except for maybe these black areas I used a marker like a Copic Sketch and I think I did this on him on a while writing in a car on a road trip which is why it looks a little rougher maybe it's okay I don't have to do too many of these in the car cause it's just sloppy I want it to look a little bit tighter a little crisper more crisp maybe this one I drew while sitting in a coffee shop and a bar in Jackson Wyoming while all my friends been skiing because I didn't feel like because I don't like skiing I'd rather sit and draw and I think I made the right choice I mean look at this obviously some of these come out of my imagination and I don't know if you recognize some of these from like the Civil War this guy had the head sideburns named after him few more faces over here this one was also drawn with the 0.7 oh I like this one mostly because I finally something something I find it difficult to get through my head is the how useful big deep areas of blackness can be in making the rest of the image pop out at you you know because that if you notice me it happens sometimes because I'm starting to get through my head but usually I have big areas of white and I need more of this sometimes I think I mean there's not ever like one thing that fixes every solution drawings don't have solutions I don't think but it looks really cool I think I like it I watch it a lot this one there's a little bit special because I used a I think I used a glass a glass pen to draw this one here's what glass pens look like we haven't seen them a lot of these were made by this guy his logo fire spider glass that's his website fire spider glass um so these are these are pretty cool pens as you can see they're just they're just crazy I think I used I'm not sure which one of these I use like these things glow in the dark not in the dark but uh under a black light and speaking of a black light these a lot of these little bubbles I drew in here and there's some lines in here that glow under a black light but I don't have a black light set up right now and the the down the downside here is that this paper itself glows a little bit under the black light so they don't pop that much it's a subtle it's a subtle thing it's okay usually when I do blacklight drawings I get my black light flashlight and draw you know shining all over the different papers I have on my shelf to see which ones don't react at all that way when I put the black light you know the black light reactive ink on it I know it'll pop like crazy this is a mixture of my pens but I think I added the pen work afterwards only after using a bunch of the the greyscale Copic markers just just experimenting with different things pretty happy with this one every now and then I just see one of my own drawings like this and well is it bad to say that I inspire myself I really do because I feel like if this doesn't look a whole lot like any other artists work of I I've seen so I'm like maybe I've actually done a little bit of my own thing here maybe I've branched out on my own a little bit I don't know because I feel like there are certain times where not like I've drawn something that's like okay maybe that that looks a little bit you know that's that's exactly Mobius like I can see how heavily I was influenced by Mobius there or you know where are crumb or something I don't know but sometimes I feel like I do make a little bit of my own art and it feels good and it excites me a little bit obviously another self-portrait here really all my drawings are self that's what I say all my drawings are self-portraits some of them look a little bit more like it than others I don't know there's a drawing I did for my reading of the color out of speech by HP HP Lovecraft on YouTube if you guys heard of YouTube you guys never watched that one youtuber that says hello tubes it plays a piano not a little face here a quick one sometimes they're a little quicker and sketchier I have a few different drawing styles or a little quicker sketchy or looser you know feels a little more liberating in the looseness and sketchiness but sometimes you know I get a little more careful and and just like lose myself and being held careful and and neat I am with the lines and that's also liberating in an entirely different way I think this one was also a glass pen in fact I'm not sure if this one was a glass pen no I'm pretty sure it was a glass pen was it a glass pin or a fountain pen not he was a glass pen this was this was definitely a glass pin though because it drew nice big fat lines oh yeah some good intestinal stuff going on here there's some contraption and some other contraption the Douglas McDougal long-range defense agitator mark five and I mean I did a YouTube video explaining all this some of you may have seen it targeting computer recycling bin escape pods heartfelt thanks backup tapes armor plating Presidential Suite F port starboard bow internal wiring hydraulics paused ok so there's a little you can read I don't know why I'm reading it - you can probably read still so must we still sell those I think by the way as you can see I kind of like doing these false borders around them you know and like kind of different levels and layers like they'll be okay enter one and then an outer one and even these like don't know they don't even like line up completely I enjoy those I don't know if you can see here there's a little bit of smudging here the that's one downside of just like whenever you put a lot of like dark ink right here I don't know if I didn't let it dry long enough but a little bit of it came off from here and smudged on over here when I close the book maybe I just didn't let it dry long enough I'm not sure yeah I like these full-page ones I used to not be able to do the full-page ones in my old sketchbook because I'd be I knew that I I couldn't get the middle here this middle crease which used to be a crack and my other one just because it would go deep down into the book and the scanner couldn't get it but now with this this type of binding you can some sort of something some sort of someone sort of ruler maybe mm-hmm hard to say you tell me what you think it is these are all open to interpretation so I liked about it it's like seeing things in the clouds everyone's like I see a duck in that person like I see a hippopotamus riding a duck there's a big one with the that's a very fine tip pen so if I like details and stuff took a while some sort of spaceship rocketing out through everything I don't know I like this one hmm sometimes I see pictures that I've forgotten I've drawn and I see them like whoa that's cool good job Peter it's good to support yourself oh I like this one I really like this area with these lines I drew and then like Lydon swimming details here and all that all this and then like this thing oh I like that one a lot that's more cryptic characters if I were to improve anything on this one I would have worked on this background area some more this is the last part I did and I think I was feeling a little bit you know their artistic version of cabin fever you know I just I wanted to move on to the next drawing but maybe I should have just move on in the next drawing and then come back to this and finish that off of something I would have liked a little more I think it would have looked good to have like a circle of some sort there may be a mandali sort of thing kind of radiating out it doesn't look awful but looking back at it now I I can see that I rushed it just because I was getting some sort of art art ache you know from spending too long on this the diagram I like these it's kind of like a would have an inspired by both wood textures and muscle they're like how muscled like the 10 knot tendons but the sinews and stuff I think this part was inspired by the insides of of accordions how accordions look on the inside also I think I started drawing this when I was in Jackson also because I went back this is an empty page this other one I drew in Jackson that I talked about I think so maybe I think these were inspired by the Grand Tetons I'm not sure I'm pretty sure I think so anyways yeah I like the all my lines I've got shooting out of here some sort of momentum or action going on there I think that's good this is inspired by by both rocks and like driftwood stuff like that just like the textures and how gnarled it is you know what I mean hmm so we're working with like Flo and soos general swoop penis with this one very fine tip pen here then digging in like you can see I was working on making like dark little sections there so it looked like some of the drawing was like I'm just giving it a little bit of body they're still working on that see that's something I've been trying to do for a long time it's making my drawings feel less flat I want to make the feel like we could fall into it or reach around it hold it grab it stick your fingers in it or be sucked into it I don't know what is something like that so still some sort of big windmill II sort of thing I think I had a story on YouTube that went along with this one I told us told story I remember exactly what it was mmm got some stippling here so this just this is all just dots I think you can tell in the video probably right and then some other sort of mechanism some giant sewing machine or something I'm not sure I like I like feeling the pages because you can kind of feel the texture of the ink on there there's a little bumps and ridges I don't know if it's good for the pages as far as their longevity you know getting more finger or finger oils on there but I I mean my hands have been all over these pages anyways so I mean it couldn't hurt that much more right and they're not smearing I mean they may be are a tiny bit uh yeah I don't know it's probably not good to touch whenever I ever let whenever I hand this over I do i if I see people in person my friends you know I do let them look through it but I tell them you know only touch the edges just cuz you don't you don't know when I touch this I know my fingers are clean except for this smudge of ink I just got but you just don't know you don't know what people have on their hands even if they say their hands are clean you don't know and then here's the last page it's pretty simple it's the last page is a little bit frustrating sometimes and stressful I even started this page before I did the second last page just because I knew it would weigh heavy on my artistic heart you know the last page and a big sketchbook you've been working on for two years and so eventually when I was finishing up and I was like you know I can't think of it as the last page it's just it's not the last page just the well mean it's the last page in this sketchbook but it's not like this last page we're gonna draw us just a page that happens to be located it's a drawing that happens to be located at the back end of this sketchbook so it's no big deal right because is it a psych yourself out both with the last page and the first page of a sketchbook so you just got to start you just got draw something and then keep moving forward go on to the next drawing draw something else draw anything but good the main thing is that you are drawing okay we're so good at talking ourselves out of it because we don't have the right pens or we don't have we don't know what to draw we're not inspired you can draw without being inspired you can draw without being having the right pens the right paper or the right you know setup or too loud or too quiet and have the right music there's so many reasons not to draw but there's so many more reasons to draw just because you should you can or you want to it's good to I don't know I don't know I don't know what I'm saying anymore but thanks for watching this video this grace also I do have some little books like these which I call line almanacs I don't know why I started calling them that I have like three of them right now I think I do whatever you like year or so but basically they just have like you can see like a bunch of these drawings in them that you just saw so if you're interested in having any of this art in your own hands these are not like I wouldn't say they are copy table quality books but they also have a lot of my my writing in them which if you know in that sort of thing I'm pretty happy with my writing it's you could like it so check them out they have have stuff in them if you're if you want it to look at and it's these support me immensely also I get like I get like seven dollars every time you buy one of these which is great so anyways thanks for watching everyone have a great day you're all beautiful and here's to the next here's to the next sketchbook okay bye

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Length: 33min 4sec (1984 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 31 2018