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Great video as always, Forrest. I always look forward to your content. You really need to have a sponsorship agreement with some colored pencils or watercolor paper! When I was first introduced to your style, actually I think it was through Annabelle's profile when I found her book, I thought you must've been inspired by Mary Blair, but also the cartoony minimalist style of the 50s, which I love. And I'm also a fan of Christian Robinson! Many of the other Illustrators I didn't know. A fellow Capricorn, well then I understand better, we are always very hardworking, perhaps the hardest working of the signs.

I'm behind on your videos, but what a joy to be initiated into your book projects. "Dreamweaver" is on my list of books to buy. "Thankfully I have no friends or a life". Thanks for the tip on how to be successful, I'll have to write that down :)) And lastly no thirty is very young and your thirties are your most transformative years. You become much more true to yourself, but also find out that everything you thought was the truth in your twenties maybe was turned upside down. PS. You look super cute in the park, would love to join you with my sketch book.

That, "Sure, Jan" moment 😂 Such a cool glimpse into your processes :)

Love you ❤

Nice to see another picture book maker here on youtube 😊 What I’ve done to get some more stability money wise is starting writing and illustrating my own picture books. It feels different when the income depends more on myself rather than outside jobs 😊

Love your videos! Thank you for being so open and honest about the industry and the challenges

How are you not ridiculously famous?! You have a sparkling personality, your videos have such great substance and your editing is just delightful. I’m so glad that RUclips finally served me up your video bc I’ve search picture book illustrator and keywords similar to our field (Art and illustration, design, etc) and you’ve never come up before. Happy I found you. Start your Patreon ❤ *She said with love. Looking forward to you blowing up!

I thought about getting an agent but I feel like one of professors talked me out of it, he kind of implied “they take all your money” but now I’m reconsidering it 😖🤔

FORRESTTTTTTTTTT!!! Yaaaay 😊 You mentioned a lot of favorite artists of mine. You should look up Fuzzy Little Peach, and Beatrice Alemagna as well, in terms of whimsical. ☺️ Aaaaand I would buy your prints!!!!

Hi!!!I just found your channel yesterday. I had been bingeing sketchbook tours and im glad the algo worked in my favor and led me to you!!! i've watched most of your videos so far. You are entertaining and so authentic in your videos. Your honest thoughts and feelings abt capitalism and AI rly resonate with me. Oh and abt how you have 3 roommates and you can never afford a house --- same. HAHAHA. Im looking to rent a house with 2 other friends eventually. LOL

Happy i got to submit a question, hope they pay you soon, you deserve your money. Your art looks very tasty

I love your videos. I get happy whenever I see one on my feed. You're my friend in my head anyway 😅. Also, thank you for giving me more illustrators to check out!

OMG I LOVE your style!! How do you keep your Neocolor II pastels from leaving marks on the opposite page? Or do you just accept that they'll make the other page a bit messy?

i love your channel!

i love your sketchbook and your energy

Hi Forest, that's exciting you've got so many projects, although stressful that the deadlines are all the same 😬 I love your gothic illustrations. I'm also in my 30's (although on the higher end 😅) Me and my husband Tom keep saying we're going to start doing yoga every day, it's becoming a running joke, because we then don't do it 😂 We have actually started now, two days in a row! 🥳

I love your energy and the feeling of your video :) I always enjoy seeing how other artist spend their days ❤

Omg! August 9th I did the exact same thing to my lower back! It was horrible. I literally had to have people help me get up and walk for like two days. 🫠

30 isn’t old, the trick is to surround yourself with older people then you’ll always be a young one. Hi friend I’m turning 41 in a little over two weeks 😉

love the video Forrest! i would love to see how you scan and edit your traditional work! (i always seem to lose the quality of the work when trying to scan my work into the computer)

I adore your videos - keep them coming! And the stretching moment was SO RELATABLE! haha.

I love your videos and YES to the hot press! I also have a variety of watercolor brands simply because I have a watercolor hoarding problem😂. ALSO I’m looking forward to your book!

So excited for a new video from you forest!!!! 😊 Oh and I need all books by you, as you are a favorite artist of mine now 🤗

Super cute art and nice video!

30 years old?? You're just a baby! 🤣 (I have kids older than you) Love your work and videos and even though I'm older can't wait to read your book! Keep us updated! 💖

The watercolor and pencil kids look amazing!!!

Amazing :O

This is so cool! I’m just now getting into sketchbooks again and seeing so many artist use the Talens Art Creations brand I’ve finally ordered one! It’s sketchbook tours like this that helped me re-discover my love for art. :D

Gouache is a great medium, but some mediums you are just more drawn to than others Maybe yours is pastels, while mine is water colour. I just feel happy and at ease when using these colours. Interesting with the AI talk. It's crazy to think that we are currently living in the science fiction world they wrote about in the 70s and 80s. I would have preferred flying cars to AI that takes over the jobs that we humans want to do (drawing, painting, writing, analyzing). But it's clearly here to stay, and perhaps that is the reason why analogue art has had a revival. How can we use AI as a tool without it taking over our lives? As a teacher I usually have this discussion with my students: Why study music? Why do art? And they forget that our world is filled with music and made of art. Also when students question reading fiction. But it isn't real or practical knowledge? Reading books strengthen our empathy and our human understanding. Literature turns our gaze outwards towards the world, towards new horizons and away from ourselves. Music, art, dance, and literature train our capacity to immerse ourselves, and they give us unimaginable insights into what it means to be human. It opens the door to the depths of the mind and new perspectives that you might not have thought of yourself. It's also something for you to enjoy and it's a way we connect with each other. It's like we are losing our spirituality and most things are about growth, being efficient and monetizing everything. In this digital age we must focus more than ever on real physical communities and on creating with our hands.

Didn't know you had posted new videos, what a joyous moment! Digging the new hair cut and the art. Definitely petrified of creating, but when I do I feel calm, I feel fine, I feel good... Why this ambivalens? I think my problem is also suffering from anxiety, but also being too easily distracted. Hopefully I can find my inner calmness and believe in myself.

Very inspiring I loved it thanks for sharing

Absolutely gorgeous

I loveeeee that you piece you did at 8:08! soooo gorgeous and full-feeling. I also love the crow at 10:40, the black and red is exciting to look at.

The one that gave you the most stress is the one that is so beautiful. I enjoyed watching this. It really made me feel good about my drawings and what I need to do to push forward.

"The people who create things are valauble" LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!! Really enjoyed your thoughts on this, thanks for sharing!

Well said! I feel like the world is going so fast and demands fast art, not on board with this as I’m a slow artist and appreciate te process. Love your videos 🌟

Would loooove to see a video where you do this again(if you want to ofcourse^^). The drawings were so cool and I loved the backstorys with all the refences in it so much!!!

I want to share my personal opinion on AI art. 1) if it's learning content was given with consent from artists, I don't think the issue would be so HORRIFYING. But it is stolen, so GROSS. 2) AI in general, has GREAT applications. PLEASE go look up the Japanese bakery/cancer cell identification using AI. This could be LIFE CHANGING technology. 3) AI in art, in my personal opinion, can be used to play with, but should not be used as an actual public art piece. 3a) However, I have heard of the AI art competitions, yeah, I think that would be fine as it's own limited category IF the generators were working off of CONSENT given art. Back to 3. I'm writing a book, and I needed something to sit for my book cover. Staring at the blank logo was KILLING my soul. But I really didn't know how or what to do with it. So I typed a shitty prompt into a free ai, and grabbed something to just sit there. Like when you prep your canvas do it's not just white. After a few days, I felt more confident in a design, and made my own (shitty) book cover and replaced the AI one. It was just a place holder. I also took the chance while playing with AI to dissect the images they were producing, and picking apart their structure, the ratios, shapes, fields of depth, color choices, etc. And this helped me place in my mind, how I might draft up my REAL book cover, or at least art pages. [Yes, im making an adult book with PICTURES!!] I find that dissecting real artists works, I get swept too much into their style and I get confused, or I end up STEALING their style instead of using it to create something of my own. AI art is already a Mashup of stolen art, so by dissecting it, I'm kind of learning what EVERYONE does similarly, and it takes away that direct copying from a singular artist. Do I think we should use AI art to teach composition, ABSOLUTLY NOT. I'm just pointing out that this tool can be used for good or evil. I think we should continue to push for people to ACTUALLY make art, and not rely on AI to replace the creative process. But I don't think we should confuse 'people who are pretending to be artists by using AI' with 'AI being an evil concept.'

i'm so glad i found this video!! i've been in a pretty big art slump, and this really made me miss working with oil pastels

It’s a great drawing but Violet looks more like Sasha Velour 😂

and i always wonder how people deal with the art they made but they dont like it at last😢 will they repaint it or just ignore it and move forward？😢

I'm in LOVE with your sketchbook art. So much inspiration, thank you so much for fresh art air :D I was browsing videos about sketchbooks because I was doing research before recording my own sketchbook tour, and I'm so soooo glad I found your channel. I want to have that kind of courage in combining colors😍😍

I hear Rick Rubin said something like this: " Making art it's almost like a diary entry, so how I can could be concerned that someone else might not like my diary entry. Doesn't make sense, my diary entry has nothing to do with anyone else. So everything we make as artists are essentially diary entries " That idea helped me alot in my creation process! I don't know but maybe helps someone here too 🥰

"not everything has to be fast, not everything has to be more more more" i needed to hear this today as I'm under some deadlines and it really feels like I have to draw as fast as humanly possible, it doesn't even feel like art anymore right now

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So jealous of your vintage tee 😭🍦 thanks for the video as always!

Why would RUclips recommend me this video?????

Love love looove your Style/Art voice 😍 Discovered you over on TikTok and just noticed you also have a RUclips - love that for me!! Btw you asked for insights on the artists your where referencing (I know the struggle haha). I think on the spread with the… let's say "weird shaped head", I recognize some of Amélie Fléchais's characters. The sheep/goat and the little wolf - she's one of my favorite Illustrators 😊

You couldn't have said it better! Let's keep creating!