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Sketchbooks-Intro to Drawing Bad Art

Added 2024-02-07 01:00:03 +0000 UTC

The number one rule of sketchbooks is Do not try to make your sketchbooks perfect. Do not be precious with them. You should try and burn through them. Fill them with bad drawings. Draw a lot.

There are a few ways to approach your sketchbooks.

One is to think of your sketchbooks as a place to study the world. Draw from observation. Collect visual information, draw from life, develop your visual vocabulary.

Another way is to explore your imagination, doodle, experiment, try new things, go crazy.

Another approach is practice. drawing perspective lines or boxes, constructing geometric shapes, line quality.

It really doesn't matter what you are filling your sketchbooks with. Just as long as you are filling them.

This video is a deep dive into sketchbooks. Why they're important, how to approach them, how to decide which kind of sketchbook to buy, the differences among the wide variety of sketchbooks on the market, how to choose paper, the kinds of sketchbooks I use, and much more.

This is pretty much everything I have to say on the subject of sketchbooks in one video. There are probably some stuff I left out.

Note About the Intro to Drawing Bad Art Course:

This is a pre-fundamentals video. Up until this point I've been putting out these videos in sequence. Starting with the cold hard fundamentals of drawing and leading up the more experimental approaches and all that.

At this point I'm kind of going back through and finding the gaps. So in the actual course this video would come before the first fundamentals video.

I don't know if that matters to anyone except me.

But I'll arrange them in the Intro to Drawing Bad Art collection on Patreon in the order that the course should go.

Also, this is technically the January Intro to Drawing Bad Art Course. So I'll be trying to get another one done by the end of the month.

Have Fun,

Goodnight Sweeties