hello everyone in this video I'm going to show you five ways in which you can
fill your sketchbook this video is ideal for those who have just bought a brand
new sketchbook and don't quite know where to start I just want to start off
by saying that the sketchbook that you're seeing in this video was actually
bought for the sketchbook slam challenge that I'm trying to accomplish for the
month of March and when I first initially bought the sketchbook I didn't
really pay attention to see what type of pages were actually inside and the
thickness of the sketchbook or of the of the pages so unfortunately I can't
actually show you any like watercolor or colouring techniques that I would
normally do in sketchbooks this sketchbook is primarily just for
graphite pencil and for a fine liner the things I'm going to show you in this
video are also applicable for beginners that are starting off with a new
sketchbook and don't quite know where to start or what to draw I'm just gonna
provide you with some key ideals like 5 ways you can fill your sketchbook and
sort of like 5 ideals on what you can do for the first 5 pages starting with
number 1 that is of course the home page or like the first brand new page in your
sketchbook I typically like doing a sort of title page again depending on what
type of sketchbook I'm going to do or what I'm going to be
drawing as a theme in the overall sketchbook I will tend to do a page sort
of like welcoming myself or anyone else that's going to view my sketchbook
and it's sort of like sets the tone for what's to come so in this case it's the
sketchbook slam challenge so what I wanted to do was just draw like a
full-body character with a little bit of background work and then just have a
title that says sketchbook slam March 2018
as for general ideas for like a a sort of title page for your sketch book I
would recommend playing around with colors making it bright and colorful you
can do a full detail sketch I really like just the idea of having like a full
page that is basically filled with a full detailed sketch I think this is
really pretty and it's a really inviting way to start your sketchbook again I was
not able to use color because the paper is way too thin and everything would
just believe right through but it doesn't really matter because the entire
sketchbook is going to be focused primarily on graphite and fine later
anyway so it does set the tone for for the for basically the topic of the
sketchbook
the second idea is actually really useful especially if you're starting out
a new sketchbook or you're new to drawing in general this idea is called
one day one theme it's actually something you found on the Internet and
it's basically the approach where you taking an inanimate object or an adamant
animated object oh my gosh my English basically you either take something
that's living or just a kind of any sort of object like chopstick or a cup of
coffee and you basically just sketch this in as many different ways as you
can use different colors you use different sizes different lengths
different yeah just different ways of sketching it and it's pretty much just
like doodling and you can basically just fill up your pages with this object now
the goal here is to basically have a theme every single day I so in this case
I did choose rabbits because I haven't Johnny Robin in a very long time and I
thought it'd be really cute to just sketch my two babies so I did draw them
in various poses and just yeah just basically it's just doodling the reason
why I love this exercise so much is that it forces you out of your comfort zone
so typically you will end up drawing things that you never really thought you
would draw in the first place and you learn a lot from it you learn in
terms of composition in terms of just drawing realistic things and or just
practicing your doodle and here's also where it provides you with more freedom
where you can basically just sketch really fast and not really worry about
if it looks bad because you're trying something new and you want to get as
many doodles out on your sketchbook so this is a super great exercise for
beginners and it's actually something that I should probably do more often I
don't do enough of it
another suggestion that is quite similar rather than selecting a subject you can
also go by letters like alphabetical letters I know a lot of youtubers
through this like YouTube artists I've seen the selected letter and then they
will just draw something that is starting with that letter and this is
also quite nice I've never actually tried this I probably do this as a
challenge in general because I feel like this would be super super challenging
because it will force you to draw different objects different maybe
animals just just things that you just typically do not ever draw so try it out
let me know in the comments below if you've actually tried this exercise let
me know how it turned out for you I would love to read your stories and if
this has actually helped you develop your drawing skill
the next I jail is actually drawn with ballpoint pen a lot of you guys have
asked me to do a complete video about this sort of challenge drawing bump with
ballpoint pens I actually do this a lot of work of course because I typically
only have ballpoint pens at work and I will just doodle away while I'm in a
call or like during lunch time I just I just doodle on everything and I just
literally cannot stop it but the ballpoint pen is so much fun to
play around with and to draw with one sort of bonus to drawing with ballpoint
pens is of course the fact that you cannot erase and I know that this
probably sounds weird to call it as a bonus but it actually is because it does
help you sort of develop your skill and not have to rely on erasers so often the
best thing about ballpoint pens is also the fact that you can sketch extremely
late so you don't actually have to draw really dark lines all the time you can
actually sketch very very lightly and then you can go on top with a darker
line with more pressure with the pen and this is where you can really start to
like carve these sort of lines to the person's face that you're drawing or the
expressions so the ballpoint pen is actually super versatile and what you
can do and this is why it's really really fun to draw with another factor
is simply the fact that if you have a sketchbook like I do right now where the
pages are super thin and you can't actually use any marker or any sort of
watercolor to color things in ballpoint pens you can get in all kinds of
different colors and you can really use this as an extra touch and extra touch
of color into your sketches sometimes I do like to combine my
graphite drawings with ballpoint a little bit so I will add a little bit of
color with the ballpoint pen and this just brings another dimension and it
just brings your drawings a little bit more to life and it's just really fun to
experiment with
for tip number four and number five they sort of go together I'm gonna first
start off with number four and that's just drawing a general sort of guide I
guess you can say of a face now I do firmly believe that at the beginning of
your sketchbook you should have these pages that are dedicated to helping you
throughout the rest of the sketchbook so what I mean by that is you should draw
some or spend a couple pages like spin a couple hours just working on these sort
of reference guides that you can later look back on as you progress through
your sketchbook so what I like to do is I like to draw guides for faces for
angles of the head also for bodies you may have already seen a little bit of
this in my mini sketchbook tour that I did a few weeks ago and by creating
these sort of guides you can bend when you're you're drawing further down the
line and you get stuck with something you can then just refer back to some of
the early guides that you created and this will just help you get inspired and
also push sort of the drawing that much further so you just you just have things
to rely on and you just set up your own rules at the very beginning of your
sketchbook so in this example I'm focusing on the front view I am just
doing some proportion work for a female face I can also expand later down the
line by having pages that are dedicated to the 3/4 view or the profile view for
the female face and then also for the male face and you can go step further by
doing things for children teenagers and or elderly people and this is just like
these sort of pages are super super helpful to refer back to later on when
you're drawing these sort of characters
for number five it does tie in with number four this is just taking it one
step further and creating a different type of guide so this is another example
of what you can do and this is just playing around with head angles and just
really just getting down to the fundamentals of the basic head shape and
how it will look like on your page as you're sketching it out in different
angles so either you have the front facing for you and then the
three-quarter profile and then you do the exact same exercise with the head
angled a little bit upwards as if as if the person is looking towards the sky
and you do the exact same you know front facing three-quarter and profile and
then the last point is also if the character was looking down a little bit
so if the angle of the head was a little bit downwards you then sketch it out
again with the front view three-quarter and the profile this is a super
fantastic exercise that you can do and it's also super helpful god to look back
on later on when you need to draw a character that has a unique angle of
their head and that's basically everything I hope that these five ways
to fill your sketchbook or five ideas for your first five pages in your
sketchbook will help you in the near future please let me know in the in the
comments below if you like these ideals and if you already if you're already
doing them and if it's already helping you let me know in the comments below
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