What Should My SKETCHBOOKS look like?

hey everyone today we are doing a live stream on what should be in a sketchbook if you are looking to strengthen and flex your art muscle our profit blah blah blah our profit is the community for you we have tutorials critiques and more and it's all for free clara would you like to start us off yeah because this is a phenomenon that i have noticed probably over the last 10 15 years that people do have this really unrealistic expectation for their sketchbook to look perfect and curated and everything has to look amazing and my suspicion is that social media is responsible for this mindset because i grew up without social media and we had crappy sketchbooks and nobody worried about it we just carried them around and it was fine cat do you think that's accurate or am i just an old fart i definitely think that's accurate and it's kind of interesting to see how this has evolved over the several years i mean i think i first started this trend on blog spots and on tumblrs and deviantart and stuff like that but now it's evolved to instagram and tick tock and youtube the sketchbook flip throughs or my accepted art school portfolio including my sketchbook and it just has a really unrealistic expectation of what your sketchbook should be which is a safe space for your own ideas and your own art and deepti i think that it's a big problem because if you can't see your sketchbook as a safe place to do whatever you need to do and sometimes it's strange terrible drawings that we have to do to get to a certain place it's a huge limitation i mean do you ever worry about that with younger artists who are just getting started and don't have as much experience with this yeah as a teacher i think what i try and tell my students is that a sketchbook should be something you feel is private and it's harder and harder to see it that way because of the way that social media has made all of us put our sketchbooks into the public eye or what people are claiming or they're like oh this this little thing this whole thing that i just drew in five seconds is like a sketchbook page but um in reality what a sketchbook should be in my opinion to make it like the most beneficial to your art practice is something that you feel comfortable doing whatever in and is a private space for you to just explore thoughts and ideas because that will generate a lot more content and ideas and make you looser and explore things that maybe you might not otherwise because you're nervous about putting it out there in the world or having other people look at it w315 says the sketchbook isn't meant for someone else to experience it's just for you you can share it but it's not a performance what do you think about that cat i agree i really like the term performance as a lot of the sketchbooks we see online right now because that's what it is it's a performance you don't actually see the behind the scenes because most artists don't want to show the messy stuff before they get to the final stuff right i mean that's all what instagram is nowadays and tick-tock i guess if you're on tick tock but i think another thing is that there are different kinds of sketchbooks for everyone i mean some people work really well with these like performative sketchbooks if that's your cut cup of tea then pursue that by all means but just don't set that expectation for yourself or everyone in the world everyone has their own different kind of sketchbook emily says as a kid my sketchbook was the only paper i owned that was nicer than printer paper which i think is why as a kid i used it more for finished pieces than real sketching that was pre-social media well deep do you do you think it matters what type of sketchbook you buy do you think that that influences how we sketch in it i think it does influence it in a sense this comment reminds me of like when i was a kid i would make sketchbooks out of printer paper just like stapled um and i totally understand that if you're going to spend more money on a sketchbook that has thicker nicer higher quality paper that you'd want those pieces to hold more weight or be more finished or be something you're more pleased with and i think that's totally fine but i think that there should always be a less intense or a more free sketchbook nearby when you're working on that um that sketchbook i think should always be your the the like kind of free dirty loose sketchbook that's just printer paper stapled or something that cost you not a lot of money something that you don't feel very like attached to um should be in your pocket at any moment because you might have an idea but you might not explore it in your nice sketchbook because you want it to be beautiful or you're not 100 committed to it yet but if you have that like other one nearby you can use that as a launching off point so having multiple sketchbooks like kat said is not a bad idea just having that other one nearby is always a good practice rachel says i found it to be a struggle to work in nicer sketchbooks too i find it adds pressure to match the cover with the work inside for me the only time that i actually buy quote nice sketchbooks is something like this which is actually the sketchbook that i used in my utah watercolor tutorial and it was just because to use watercolor i couldn't do that in a crappy sketchbook because it would totally fall apart but you know what's really funny is i love stuff like this because i had a student who was house-sitting for me julie sharp and she got a hold of my sketchbook and was like drawing stuff in it and occasionally one of my kids would come in and like invade one spread or something do you ever do that cat where do you have to put these like little collaborations in the sketchbook actually yeah i do i think it happened more in art school because you're just surrounded by artsy people who kind of know your boundaries as an artist and they know it is okay to just draw these little doodles in your sketchbook in some random corner somewhere so yes it has it has actually happened for me um i feel like everyone has their own boundaries for their sketchbook their own terms of privacy so although some people may be okay with other people drawing in their sketchbook maybe other people won't be okay with it and either way it's totally fine the sketchbook is yours it is your private safe space kiva says sometimes i just sketch on printer or scrap paper and put them in folders i think you do that deep d right don't you collect random papers i i literally have just this right here that i don't even know what it is but i was doodling just while we were talking earlier like it's just a piece of paper that i've found and i think this is from like 2017 but yeah i have i tend to just grab the thing nearest to me because i'm not great at holding like a book but napkins um if i'm waiting at like the dmv the paper you know but i i always keep it and then i have a folder that i just stuff everything and and it's interesting because if you actually watch my um artist's pro like profile stream on artprof with my early work is a lot of like random sketches on pieces of paper that my mom saved and like shows and shows me today so i'm like maybe that's where i got this habit of just like keeping every little drawing i ever have so that i have it in the future that's why i grew up but i think it's great practice and it's always beneficial in the future to look back on it too and be like oh what an idea that i had three years ago cat do you ever collage things into your sketchbook yeah absolutely you might actually see an example later in the slideshow but sometimes i sketch something on a piece of binder paper or something i'm like oh shoot i should have just put it in my sketchbook so i just tape it into my sketchbook i tend to also just draw on random scraps of paper i find because they're the fastest thing to get in hand and i have an idea now i need to i need to put onto paper immediately so i just grab a piece of binder paper also i feel a lot of pressure to finish sketchbooks which is actually why i never finished the last page of sketchbooks almost because the pressure's too much for me so that's why i actually prefer scraps of paper over sketchbooks i don't think i ever finished sketchbooks because i did a stream a little ways back where i did a flip through of all my sketchbooks from childhood until now i don't think there was a single one that didn't have at least 10 pages at the end that weren't filled up and you know what's weird because i look on youtube quite often just to see keywords and stuff like that and you know what most of the sketchbooks on youtube have the word fill in the title fill your sketchbook and i wonder if that's not helping people either that they're feeling like oh it has to be a completed thing and i'm like i just toss it around and what's the big bus so kat i know that you were applying to art school during the time of youtube and cal arts has the sketchbook requirement and not only do you have to do the sketchbook you actually have to physically mail the actual sketchbook to the school as part of your application so can you explain to people what your experience was with that because i feel like this is responsible for half of everybody's insecurity online for sketchbooks right so i actually never applied to cal arts i did go to a summer program there which is why i decided um to not attend cal arts because i didn't think it was a personal fit for me it could be a personal fit for other people but i did make a very finished sketchbook during my time in the summer program at call arts and i just felt like i couldn't express all my ideas because every single drawing i had to do was perfect and i didn't in order to get a good drawing you need like 10 really bad drawings you did beforehand and where else was i going to draw those 10 really bad drawings clearly not in my very finished sketchbook so where else am i going to draw them suddenly i just don't know what to do so basically i think it is good if you're trying to make a sketchbook appropriate for collards to have yeah sure your very fancy performative cal arts sketchbook but also have a really bad sketchbook on hand the one where you can just make 10 bad drawings and i don't know warm up before you actually draw into your nice colored sketchbook and you know something you guys i actually feel really bad about this because we're talking right now about how social media creates a lot of the sketchbook shame and envy for a lot of people but the thing is we have sketchbook videos that do show people with amazing work and a lot of it's quite finished i mean the and the opposite of that would be my sketchbook video which is not impressive in terms of finish and stuff like that i guess i just wish that people showed more the range and that it wasn't so curated what's your take on that deep d i agree i mean i don't think one is better than the other i think when it becomes a problem is when you start putting a lot of pressure or rules on your sketchbook that it has to look beautiful or it has to look messy i think at least having one sketchbook in your arsenal of sketchbooks that has no rules no nothing is really important because sure everything might have turned out beautiful but also you might just be feeling stiff one day and just want to make 10 really weird marks with the medium you're making and are you gonna do that if your sketchbook feels like a place that should only be beautiful and like those don't qualify as that so i think having something that really just alleviates those is alleviate lifts those rules i don't know if that's right um but doesn't have those rules on it is really important and yeah i think showing a variety like you said clara is really important because a lot of times on social media and like you said we're complicit in this um you're showing the like cool sketchbooks like oh look how finished and different and you know tied together this is and of course that's enticing but you know there are so many other types of sketchbooks out there that aren't getting the light put on them so that's important to show too it's really great actually if we go through the comments people are talking about exactly what they use for sketchbooks for example trent says i have different levels of sketchbook quality i have one that is literally just a one dollar college ruled notebook from walgreens i know cat you do that a lot you have a lot of just crappy line notebooks that you use for comic sketches why do you use those i feel like the lines would get in the way for me it's almost freeing because it's aligned you know that it's not good quality paper it doesn't matter if my drawing is good or bad i just get it down somewhere and it builds a stepping stone to create a better artwork on a better piece of paper later so i think those lined bad sketchbook quality sketchbooks are necessary and neil is asking there's a video recommended to me on youtube called quote how to finish a calart sketchbook in 12 hours i didn't watch it but i wonder what are your thoughts on this deep deep that sounds really difficult to do um [Music] that's also confusing to me um i would be i would like i think i'm gonna watch that video after this to see what they recommend but um i think what the main issue that i find with that is that it seems like there are a lot of like rules and a lot of like this is how you do this and it's very um formulaic and methodical uh which doesn't seem like what i would recommend healthy for a sketchbook practice and also feels very like um like you're taking a test and i don't know if that's what you know at the end of the day the colors people want to see in the sketchbook i think they do want to see a level of i don't know i didn't apply to that school but um it does feel performative like cat said s.a.t sketchbook that that's not something i want to associate with my sketchbook practice well see that that whole concept just bothers me so much that it's not that you're using the sketchbook for the well i don't know if there are right reasons but to me i think about a sketchbook it's like primordial soup it's the beginning of time and life and it's messy and there are dinosaurs dying and protozoa growing and it's chaos it should feel that way and when you tell somebody you should be able to pull this off in 12 hours and i'm going to tell you how i mean talk about unrealistic expectations i couldn't do that so why are we telling people who are applying to cal arts that they should be able to do that it just frustrates me to no end when people have these expectations for each other online um deepti what about other platforms like you talked a little bit about youtube and cal arts what about other platforms like instagram tick tock deviantart tumblr how have you seen sketchbooks presented in those platforms i used tumblr a lot when i was in high school and i think that it was similar in the fact that um it was a lot of really pretty images and people promoting that they got into the school and that school but again it's not bad that's awesome that they draw that way and they use their sketchbook that way it's just there's not a balance like you said earlier clara of also using those platforms to show the the nitty gritty the mark making the ripped pages the quick ideas the brainstorming but i do think that both instagram and tumblr those are the ones that i have a lot of experience with kind of sensationalize um what a sketchbook should be i even have a friend who has a beautiful sketchbook practice but in my opinion and has a huge following on instagram but in my opinion those aren't like sketchbook pages those are final pieces that actually get sold for like a lot of money and that's awesome and they're beautiful i love them but a lot of people see those and are like oh my goodness this artist has hundreds of thousands of followers on instagram because their sketchbook looks like this and i'm like they they i know for a fact they have a sketchbook that looks like the one that you see on the screen too it's just that's not the one that has an instagram page and you don't know about it but i do because they're my friend and so i can guarantee you that you know it exists and that's part of the process it's just that people take out all of the really boring stuff i mean i'm sorry to sound so unglamorous but sometimes i feel like being an artist is sort of boring it's just like a lot of crappy drawings and cross this out and talk like a lot of it's not that exciting to look at a lot of the time am i wrong cat or am i just boring no you're right um sometimes i tell people oh i do comics and they're like oh my gosh like you're carving out your own path you're telling your own story that must be so amazing every day you're such a creative person but really it's just ninety percent of the time me going like doesn't make sense and my sketchbooks also show that i don't know how many times i have to redraw redraw redraw thumbnails and ideas to get to the right narrative i'm looking for that sketchbook is really there for me to reach places i don't want to be for me to find the place i want to be so i'm wondering also in terms of social media people are posting images but i think cat you had mentioned that you've seen on tick tock a lot of these sketchbook videos where it's like boom boom in three seconds this amazing drawing and i think we know in our heads didn't really happen in three seconds but it's not helping is it right those videos tick tock videos are very short they're not there for the educational value all the time some of them are i guess but not all of them and when you speed up the art process to just be a few seconds long you're not going to learn anything basically because most of art making is just that nitty gritty boring stuff the stuff you just have to like parse through and put in hours and you can't see that through tick tock we have a comment from ht poke pack that says i have many sketchbooks for different purposes including a performative sketchbook every piece isn't the best of course but it's one of my favorite sketchbooks and satisfying seeing completed pages i think that that's really valid too that sometimes that's really motivational to have a sketchbook like that i know personally sometimes motivating myself with the fact that i'm gonna post instagram and i'm gonna know that i'm gonna get like all these likes and i'm gonna get that dopamine hit really motivating to me and sometimes i won't create something but then being like okay well i'll post it on instagram and then all my followers will see that i'm doing something is really motivational and i will do something that i didn't previously feel like doing so if that is a sketchbook practice and that performative quote-unquote sketchbook gets you to work then fabulous but i think what we're all saying is that like cat said there should be another one that also promotes the journey and the exploration and doing things that you feel like you need to just do to get to a point where you feel like maybe then you can work on your performative quest book or a final piece i feel like a lot of it is just trying to get rid of those unrealistic expectations because i think a lot of the time the issue is that we're the ones placing that enormous pressure on ourselves to look perfect all the time i mean a lot of it comes from what we see and what's getting views and stuff like that and it's hard to get that out of your head i mean this past week i uh youtube drives me crazy like there are some things about it that i think are phenomenal and obviously they're our primary platform so i can't complain about that but it's like some days i just look at the numbers on other videos like i watched this terrible anatomy video the other day and i just was like why why can't i get anybody to watch our video and it's like so frustrating when you start thinking about numbers and how many followers people have so i get it and it's hard to put that away cat do you have any suggestions for how to just turn off all those voices from social media i mean my biggest piece of advice is to ignore it all together but that's easier said than done because it's there all the time it's on your phone it's on your computer and you're always connected somehow to social media but i think it's good to also find a community of artists that you can also share like your behind the scenes work with or just your friends with with your friends because sometimes validation doesn't need to come from social media like those hundreds of thousands of likes in order to just like ignore that or try to ignore that maybe you can just look for validation among the people close to you so that could be for your sketchbook or your final pieces but i just say don't look at those numbers talk to real people ron nook says what are your thoughts on digital sketchbooks deep do you know anybody who has a digital sketchbook i don't think i do i don't think i do either but it seems like a great idea if that's you know what's easiest for you to get your hands on if that's a medium that you're used to working in um seems logical to sketch in that medium too so i like it and i think it works in the same way as long as it's helping you generate ideas and keeping you loose that sounds great also i just wanted to comment on something cat said i was i was just thinking about like community and stuff and at the end of the day you also just don't have to show your sketchbook to anyone and that's a great way of like silencing those thoughts and you know showing your work like for example the stuff that i've put in this stream of my work i would never have shown it to anyone if it wasn't for this educational purpose i know that they all kind of are awful and there are issues with it and if you're going to show your work to people there are going to be opinions so you should know that and having a community that you trust will often make sure that those opinions are kind and helpful but at the end of the day you don't have to show your sketchbook to anybody unless you're us and we want to send you our sketchbooks to make you know that we're here with you i want to pull up the super chat from margaret johnson thank you very much as you guys know your support helps us keep art prof running completely free for everyone so thank you very much margaret well i do want to point out that when we were assembling the slideshow for the stream i specifically said to deepti and cat okay take some pictures from your sketchbooks but make sure they're really crappy looking i mean it's funny to me that i had to be so specific about that because everybody's average expectation is oh if you're going to show something somewhere it better be good it better demonstrate that you're not a total fraud as an artist and we had to be so clear about this sketchbook stream is about showing what people don't show and i think fine i mean i don't have any issues with you guys seeing how crappy my sketches are it's totally okay w315 says you should also have a secret sketchbook on the side for the stuff you would never show anybody i have one it's in my purse it's like this big i showed it on my sketchbook video but that's because i wanted you guys to see it otherwise i would never have done that and i use it when i'm stuck in line at the grocery store i mean i could look at my phone but sometimes it's just fun to draw people who are standing in line at joann fabrics i like this comment from emily saying lol their crappy pages are on par with my beautiful ones that's like again this comparison mentality i will say that there were some really crappy ones that i was like i just can't like i can't so it gets worse than what you're seeing and also that's okay like clara cat and i you know went to art school where how far into our careers like you know like their people are all over the place i'm sure if i dug up my high school sketchbooks or when i was early on in my art career which i'm not i'm like a professional working artist now there would be some stuff that you would you know choke on your spit looking at so don't even make that comparison i just wanted to pull this up and be like do not make that comparison at all because whatever you have is so valid and i'm sure if you put yours on the screen other people would be like oh mine are worse than that so it's just like a slippery slope starving artist says is there a quote ugly sketchbooks channel in the discord there is not because you know what we have too many channels as it is and we try to cut back on the number because i know it's overwhelming especially for new members we don't want them to feel that way but we do have a channel called show and tell and that's basically a channel where you just show anything that you want that's artwork the difference is that it's not a critique channel so if somebody posts in show and tell the assumption is that you don't want feedback you just want to show people what you have critique channels the assumption is oh if you're putting it here you're going to want to get feedback i want to pull up this comment by meisuku saying a general question how many sketchbooks do you fill a year is it normally a lot and i'm going to be completely honest here i don't fill out any sketchbooks like not one because i never finished sketchbooks i always leave the last couple of pages blank i don't know why maybe it's just my own mindset blocking me but i'm fine with it i mean uh you should not feel pressured to finish multiple sketchbooks a year like everyone's goals and everyone's abilities are very different and you got to be understanding about that for yourself do you finish sketchbooks i never do literally never in my life have i ever finished a sketchbook i can't think of a single one that's reached the end and i also think that's okay because like sometimes i'll be on the train and i'll have an idea and then i won't do it because i'm like oh well it needs to go in my sketchbook because i have to finish my sketchbook and then i just won't do it so again it's like all these rules and pressure i'm like if i have a napkin and i have an idea and i have a writing implement or some sort of tool it's going to get put and then i'll just put it in a folder or something so you can always revisit all sketchbooks um don't feel that pressure maro says but it's funny how i absolutely love some of the sketches you're showing i feel like they're all really fun and loose well i'll tell you i think one of the reasons a lot of them are fun and loose is because we were not trying to do great work i have found when i set out to do an amazing job i'm always mad at myself by the time i'm done like cat you and i did that linear perspective stream a little ways back where i was doing ink wash and i was like so excited about the alfred hitchcock stills and i went into that stream this was dangerous going i'm gonna push that perspective and i'm gonna really show the haunting lighting and that was such a mistake because i had all these expectations and of course i couldn't live up to them and so i think sometimes when you just free yourself of those expectations you do end up making good stuff so it's weird the way it works i don't know yeah everyone has a different relationship also with their sketchbooks like maria right here saying omg i can't drop my sketchbooks until they're finished it's like a whole breakup novella every time like see you everyone has a different sketchbook practice don't be ashamed you do you yeah and we have this comment from juan who says i usually do quick little sketches of drapery stole lives etc i find it interesting that usually when i think i'm going to do a horrible job i end up with a surprising end product that ever happened to you deep d yeah when i'm sometimes just doing whatever i'm not even thinking and i'm just improvising and then when i like it's almost like i black out and then i come to all of a sudden like two hours later and i'm like whoa i would have never done this if i was like thinking and trying to create like a cool end product this just happened um and then that opened so many doors for cool avenues to explore after that so yeah like um the art dare right now is this like selfie self-portrait thing that i started doing of like a few months ago that literally was that experience i was like let me just draw this funny photo and then two hours later i was like well what just happened and then i had a wonderful idea and i kept doing it and i love them and they're so fun but literally the experience was i was i was actually digitally sketching like rondon asked i was on procreate just trying to figure out the program and truly the start to finish just feels like a blur but the end product i was like i haven't done something like this ever or like felt so free and it was awesome and now it started not there amanda says maybe we're mixing up sketchbooks with visual diaries they're a bit different the first is for drawing stuff the other for notes scribbles and thoughts i'm not familiar with the term visual diary or you cat i've not really heard that before but that's actually what i called my comic journaling before i knew they were sketchbooks and comics like i have one right here it's right nearby and i call it a diary but it's like look at it they're sketches that's a sketchbook right and i think a sketchbook can be a visual diary for you or it can be called a sketchbook but i think they're just like a book for yourself you know the term feels so loose and open it's like a really a sketchbook can be whatever you want it to be if you have a sketchbook that's literally all text from start to finish cool that's awesome jd corgin says i've started several new sketchbooks designated for different media mostly because i'm so tired of charcoal all over everything i do i bet jordan would sympathize with that feeling but sometimes sketchbooks also are situational because okay total confession you guys i don't have a regular sketchbook practice at all like i have sketchbooks but i don't do it on a regular basis i just take them out now and then but i don't think to myself okay sketch in my sketchbook the only time i really use a sketchbook heavily is when i'm traveling and to me i have a taiwan sketchbook i have a china sketchbook and it feels weird to like work in the china sketchbook when the trip is over have you had that deep d no i sketch for 10 minutes every single day every day of my life clara what are you talking about i absolutely practice what i preach um no that's a lie i definitely don't have a sketchbook practice at all um but yeah i i have different sketchbooks like when i travel to india or like um when i'm on a little vacation i like to take specific so yeah i do like to keep my sketchbook separate sometimes and um a lot of times it's like a sentimental thing like i don't want to touch this sketchbook because it reminds me of a certain place or i like to have it like almost like a photo album um and i really like that too it's almost like if i want to as a filmmaker if i'm trying to like you know think of a certain moment in time going to like this specific book like that's like a little time capsule is kind of a cool um experience and artistic process all right so kat now you have to confess do you have a regular sketchbook practice or are you frauds like me in deep d uh not really in fact i even questioned what do you mean by regular sketchbook practice because i write notes and i draw little things every day so long as a thought occurs to me would you count that as a regular sketchbook practice like it's it's so casual i don't even see it as a routine it just happens and that's how i work yeah i'm curious do people here have specific routines like there is a comment let me see if i can find it somebody was saying that they were trying to finish a sketchbook i think it was like one a month sorry i can't find it right now but oh here it is varun says i have set a goal to fill a sketchbook a month right now the last one took two months though this is a sketchbook that has both finished illustrations and just random doodles and experiments so i guess i would call that more regular practice because there's a concrete time period to finish something whereas i don't have that at all it's just oh i gotta scribble something i don't know i think there might also be a pressure once you reach a certain level of art making because i actually do think a regular sketchbook practice is necessary to grow your skills as an artist but once you start getting foundational things down like anatomy and plein air drawing and you have a pretty good grasp on perspective and then you're like now what what do i practice now right so a lot of sketchbooks can be practice to develop those skills and sketchbooks can also be ideating writing down or drawing whatever ideas that come to your mind so there are just a lot of uses for sketchbooks and i just see a regular sketchbook routine as being necessary to build skill i just wanted to give a huge huge shout out to jill and to ray thank you both for your donations like kat said earlier you helped create keep art prof free and accessible to everyone for as long as possible and keep us running so thank you so much you rock kesem says when i try to put thoughts on a page spread i usually end up zoning out and just doodling how do i avoid that tesla i don't think that's necessarily a bad thing what do you think cat i don't think that's a bad thing at all sometimes you just get into the zone i feel like if you think too hard about what you're drawing you freeze up actually like i think the best portraits slash caricatures i've ever done in my sketchbook were just teachers in the classroom milling around trying to teach me and me clearly ignoring them i was super casual about it i'm like oh she has really droopy eyes i'll draw those two pies you know i'm not thinking too hard about it and they looked so much like the teachers then but i feel like if i thought oh i gotta get the proportion right her eyes are this far apart and her nose is this length once i start thinking too hard about it suddenly it doesn't really look like the person anymore it feels like a machine drew it and i there was no like personal touch to it well so i doodle when i'm waiting for a doctor's appointment or i'm at trader joe's and there's a line or something like that dp you told me that you sketch when you're waiting for pasta to boil do you still do that um i don't need as much pasta as i did in college so thank goodness um but yeah when i'm waiting for like mundane tasks to just happen i definitely am sketching or like it happens a lot on zoom calls unfortunately like with clients i'm like oh you have an interesting face or like that thing that you said it's kind of interesting i mean i'm paying attention but like actually what um the comment earlier was thing about zoning out like sometimes i feel like i concentrate more and i'm more tapped in when i am just like doodling um perhaps because we're visual learners but yeah i think the zoning out isn't something that you should try and prevent but like you know use that as a stepping stool for like phase one and then maybe phase two is developing off of the thing that you drew when you zoned out um and seeing where that takes you mills gwimper says sometimes doodles end up being great and can be good jumping off points for a bigger project later that's really common i mean my sketchbooks they're a mess and half the time they're just demos or sometimes like before we start a draw along i sketch for like 15 minutes because i get like worried about starting cold at the beginning of a draw along and i think that's fine for them to be you just like noodling around doing all these different things builder d says when you're stuck in doors all day because of kovid how do you draw aimlessly without thinking too much about it ends up being too much repetition a simple observation i find cat any tips maybe actually take a little break from drawing because you know covid does not equal artistic residency code is something you have is like in a mammoth thing you have to sort of process on your own and just because you have time indoors doesn't necessarily mean you should be drawing all the time do not pressure yourself like that so actually maybe take a break from drawing if you find yourself lacking an inspiration you feel like you've drawn everything in your house then like veg out on youtube watch art prof relax a little bit and uh sometimes you just can't force inspiration sometimes you actually just take care of yourself and you know it will come when it comes don't pressure yourself slept near says i sketched when i had to sit through kids concerts and activities or would i have time to just draw oh my god i did that do you guys know how many band concerts and chorus concerts i had to sit through that uh let's just say it wasn't like going to the met in new york and so you just are like you you don't want to like sit on your phone because you feel like it's rude to like sit on your phone during it it's like nobody will bother you about sketching so it's actually a really good strategy to get through some really uh cringy events by the way everybody this google slideshow is available the link is in the youtube video description below art prof is a podcast it's available on spotify and also on itunes and in a few minutes deepti in cat will be hanging out in the art craft discord in the post live streams channel come chat with them about more quirky sketchbook practices or lack thereof whatever you guys want to chat with us about subscribe to our channel so you can 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Channel: Art Prof: Create & Critique

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Id: j7MjYWJkX28

Length: 41min 11sec (2471 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 19 2021