i simply adore the way you fill the pages on your sketchbook TT it’s also so interesting to see how you (for lack of a better word) i guess refined your style, it’s still clearly yours throughout but you can definitely see the progress! ✴️
I love how thoughtful all your content is; whether it's sharing about your personal life/reflectionss, or just talking about your art, its always a pleasure to watch! inspires me to get back into my illustrations
I am so excited for this! Yay! Thank you so much Chey! You are seriously THE multi passionate/ multi-potentiality queen. Your journey is so unique to you. Because you share your artistry as things unfold in your life. From showing us your bullet journals, stickers, clay pins, prints, artwork process and even your crochet tutorials! You have inspired me to continue with my RUclips channel and share my art along with everything I am passionate about. So thank you! 🤩✨🌷
i really love to listen the way u talk abt things u love, it reminds me abt the things i myself lreally enjoy and its gives me sm motivation to live life lol
after this whole tour i didn’t think i could adore you more until those last seconds when you were singing “hot” and did the mouth poppy thing perfectly 😻
Oh this video was so fun to watch, I'm already eager to rewatch it again. Alas, I must get back to work. I just wanted to say thank you for always be so candid and honest. Your work really inspires me and I'm ready to go home and pick up my sketchbook again!
Watching your videos while crocheting a bag is really my definition of a perfect evening haha. Thanks for sharing all this creativity and softness with us! (hug from France!!) 🌸✨️
I LOVE all the pops of color throughout your art😍 thanks for sharing your lovely doodles n sketches, frustrations and vulnerabilities included, we all deal with some of that and we just gotta keep trying new things to figure out what works for us 💪🏻
Thanku so much for sharing all of your thoughts and process and for the reminder about being kind to yourself! I get so in my own head and it's such a nice reminder! I love your art and your flip through really does show your progress! beautiful!
I've been watching your channel for years now and I'm just coming back to RUclips after a (very!) long break for reasons, and what a DELIGHT to see how your business has grown and your style has evolved. Your art feels even more **you** than before, if that makes sense. A delight, I tell you! A delight!
your process inspires me to follow my own path too!! the way your brain works (or the way i perceive it through your content) is so relatable to me and it feels like you GET IT. I feel so seen by your content! thank you for the process.
I was working on the last few pages in my sketchbook while watching this so it was really inspiring to see your pages as I filled out my own! I definitely resonate with what you said about wanting to leave your body when the art isn't turning out. For me I realized it was cuz I was doing stuff out of my comfort zone (using pen rather than pencil) and rushing through, it so slowing down and trying to enjoy the process helped me feel that slightly less. Can't wait to see how you continue to improve in your next sketchbook!
i relate so much to judging my own work when i draw and feeling frustrated! ive had a big bout of that recently. i find that it can go away when i manage to get deep enough into the flow of drawing - which can be hard when you have a hyper active brain with like at least 3 trains of thought running at the same time lol. having audiobooks on while i draw helps me a bit with that, like getting out of my own head. its not a perfect strategy but its something. i continue to work on it. i hope you find a strategy that works for you!
41:09 i’m the same exact way, also diagnosed with adhd, i’m genuinely my own worse enemy. i’m guessing it just takes time to overcome, and i can’t wait until i do lol
in the middle of this video I got that "frustrated to angry at myself about art" and had to just stop myself from drawing anymore today fdgsfh I feel like that is the only thing I can do about it
yayyy!! haven’t watched it yet but I was so glad to see it pop up on my homepage :)) thank you so much for your presence as a person as well as your amazing artwork in this little corner of the internet! you are a true inspiration xx
whaaaat you give classes about Sense and Sensibility ? And also make wonderful creations ? And also draw so good ? AND YOU PLAY GOOD VIDEO GAMES?? Just so you know you seem to be such a great and accomplished person, and I hope one day you'll realize that all the efforts you made weren't worthless ! Wish you all the love you need and wish you to be your OWN perfect version of yourself ❤️
okay this is kinda silly but i totally get what you mean by getting in your own way, and the way i've been combatting that myself is to get a little stoned before drawing and I'm not sure how to transfer that into my sober headspace but it's really been helping me losen up and try new things without worry!
This is a pretty good idea to use paintings from Renaissance as references !!! I've never thought of that (and I use them a lot in my abstract art but never in my illustration). Thanks for the idea ! I will give it a try (I use photo from Unsplash but... choice is very limited)
hey cheyenne !!! i hope u see this !!! I have adhd and probably also autism, but the feeling you're describing when you are unhappy with your drawings is something i've struggled with for years after art school -- going to school with an undiagnosed learning disability at the time, finally being expected to put effort into something I also felt passionate about but still lacked skill in, it ended in a lot of trauma that stopped me from drawing for my last year in school (i hit a wall and could not keep going) as well as several years after ! This was 2018 -- the pandemic hit and then I was able to put a lot more time into working through this trauma while reclaiming a passion that was smothered out. This may not be a universal cure, but it seems like you're struggling with similar feelings of the fun being sucked out, an intense focus on what is going to bring in money or skill or productivity, ignoring the part of yourself that gets giddy when you pick up a pen for the part of yourself that feels intimidated by the empty page. center your FUN !!! do what you find FUN !!! when you spend so much time worried about what it's looking like and how good you're doing or how this is going to fit into your next project, you lose all those fun mistakes that happen when you're experimenting, there's all this pressure to make something that you don't even know anything about yet !!! horse before the carriage type shenanigans. if you dont like what you're drawing, stop working on that. draw something you do like, draw a million sophies as lil blobs because you know drawing that makes you feel good. my specific feel good doodle has been furby memes for the past 2 years, cause when i draw them it makes me laugh. i was just doing it for fun at first and then it ended up turning into what launched my first ever etsy (shameless plug: etsy.com/shop/oddmerchandise ) just because i really liked the way the furby holding the knife looked lmao. and i only drew that because i wanted to laugh on a particularly difficult day in like january 2021. TL;DR: when art stops being fun, you have to make it fun again. having fun is the most important part, so if scribbling across the page to make pretty colors like a toddler is going to inject some fun into your process DO IT !!! the same way you have to help your inner voice with your self esteem, you have to help your inner voice have some fun when work is all we are expected to do all the time !!! draw some stupid hair !!! just scribble a bit !!! who cares !!! and then when you're having fun again, your logic brain can come back and figure out how to make it better/monetized/productive. fun first, always !!!
when i overthink and am processing emotions in general, I try to think my thoughts aloud (when i can. If i cant be loud i mutter/whisper or something). It took some getting used to, and im still getting used to it- but it kinda forces you to slow down your thoughts and I respond to myself sometimes to try and validate myself and feel better. I think self validation along with not running from emotions but *feeling* the emotion while being aware of any judgements we make (but not judging ourself for judging-- just *accepting*) are healthy but REALLY HARD methods to dealing with emotions. I hope this helps or at least gives you a new idea on how to approach overthinking. If not, i hope this helps you feel less alone! Or! Something!
getting out of my way and my head... I have been trying to shut off my brain and just do what first comes to my mind and be consumed by that for the duration... i get more done and am more satisfied and feel like I get more ahead from just doing and not thinking at all.. not sure if that was what you meant, but that is what it made me think of, relating to myself
Omg I always try to explain that hot feeling to people and they never get it, but you described exactly how I always feel, like my skin is just too tight and it's infuriating. Loved the video and getting to see your beautiful sketches ❤
thank you for this cosy video! I love your art style and I love tagging along on your art journey ! I hope august is a better month for you sending positive vibes x
Hey! Fellow ADHD artist friend who gets really mad at myself. I've been doing DBT: it's good for emotional regulation and distress tolerance and just offers lots of tools. There's really nice sheets on it everywhere. I've found it's helped me a lot.
Oh wow, I'd never heard of DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy). It sounds like an amazing approach that could be so helpful for me. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and experience, that's super kind of you. ☘️
This was seriously so lovely, thanks for sharing & being so vulnerable with us. I have ADHD as well and anger is something I struggle with, it’s reassuring to hear another femme person express that because I feel like it’s an emotion that is frowned upon for us. Love all your little characters and this inspired me to open up my larger format sketchbook and play!
Hi Cheyenne! I am a contemporary dancer- three dimensionality is something we talk about a lot in my world. Might be helpful looking at some pictures or videos of my kind in regards to the working on bodies existing in space thing you mentioned. Just a thought :)
I also get really angry a lot (a lot more than when I was younger, I used to be more of a crying person instead of angry lol), I usually count on the fact that it will pass if I focus on something else first. it's really hard because almost nobody understand the anger and thinks it's too dramatic hahaha. I don't have it with my art tho, mostly with routine related stuff and/or when I don't get my dopamine while looking forward to it all day 😂
It felt like you were describing emotional dysregulation (in connection to drawing frustration) coming from an adhder myself, I dunno could help to read up on it and find tips that way?
Hi I'm a new viewer and sorry if I kinda out of topic but has anyone ever said to you that your face look like a mix between Tom and Summer on 500 days of Summer?!?!?!? AND I EXCITED FOR THAT!! 😃
agh. absolutely love seeing a new Chey video pop up on my homepage! question for Cheyenne (and any other Seattle residents)- I'm going on a work trip to Seattle and have one free day on my own (albeit a Monday *sad face*) but does anyone have any recommendations for what I should check out, where I should grab a bite, etc.? anything would be appreciated!!
I find it so interesting that your sketchbooks are at least 90% people, but then most of your finished pieces are not? Or perhaps just have a tiny person in the composition, or just a torso. Is it because most of your pieces have been done digitally, while your sketchbooks are physical? I suppose I'd like to see more of your process and workshopping of actual completed pieces. More of the beginning stages of your flowers, fruits, cats, landscapes, etc.
I can relate so much to the frustrated/angry feeling when something doesnt work out like if really should. It like why does this look like crap? Come on brain! Wake up and do your job 😝
I just got through watching your movie maysville, you're an amazing actress and you look so beautiful and sweet in that movie, I mean it's like the kind of girl that I wanted meet again in my life, I lost my fiance of 9 years 3 years ago, I haven't dated since because I haven't found nobody who is worthy enough to take her place you in that movie was just exactly like her..
the first two sketches you drew look like the girl in profile is staring lovingly at the girl in the striped shirt and it made my little gay heart very happy ☺️
All I could think of while watching you draw is "It'd be so lovely to have your illustrations in comics, I'd definitely read the heck out of it."
i simply adore the way you fill the pages on your sketchbook TT it’s also so interesting to see how you (for lack of a better word) i guess refined your style, it’s still clearly yours throughout but you can definitely see the progress! ✴️
I love how thoughtful all your content is; whether it's sharing about your personal life/reflectionss, or just talking about your art, its always a pleasure to watch! inspires me to get back into my illustrations
this is so sweet oliver TT thank you !!!!
I am so excited for this! Yay! Thank you so much Chey! You are seriously THE multi passionate/ multi-potentiality queen. Your journey is so unique to you. Because you share your artistry as things unfold in your life. From showing us your bullet journals, stickers, clay pins, prints, artwork process and even your crochet tutorials! You have inspired me to continue with my RUclips channel and share my art along with everything I am passionate about. So thank you! 🤩✨🌷
Random note but the thought that you guys also celebrated 420 makes me so happy, that sounds like a fun time!
i really love to listen the way u talk abt things u love, it reminds me abt the things i myself lreally enjoy and its gives me sm motivation to live life lol
after this whole tour i didn’t think i could adore you more until those last seconds when you were singing “hot” and did the mouth poppy thing perfectly 😻
Oh this video was so fun to watch, I'm already eager to rewatch it again. Alas, I must get back to work. I just wanted to say thank you for always be so candid and honest. Your work really inspires me and I'm ready to go home and pick up my sketchbook again!
All your lines are so smooth and fluid, it's amazing:0
Would love a wall art tour !!! It looks so beautiful and colorful
I love seeing your sketchbook spreads, they're so pretty!!😍💕 your videos are so calming😊
Watching your videos while crocheting a bag is really my definition of a perfect evening haha. Thanks for sharing all this creativity and softness with us! (hug from France!!) 🌸✨️
I LOVE all the pops of color throughout your art😍 thanks for sharing your lovely doodles n sketches, frustrations and vulnerabilities included, we all deal with some of that and we just gotta keep trying new things to figure out what works for us 💪🏻
Thanku so much for sharing all of your thoughts and process and for the reminder about being kind to yourself! I get so in my own head and it's such a nice reminder! I love your art and your flip through really does show your progress! beautiful!
I've been watching your channel for years now and I'm just coming back to RUclips after a (very!) long break for reasons, and what a DELIGHT to see how your business has grown and your style has evolved. Your art feels even more **you** than before, if that makes sense. A delight, I tell you! A delight!
your process inspires me to follow my own path too!! the way your brain works (or the way i perceive it through your content) is so relatable to me and it feels like you GET IT. I feel so seen by your content! thank you for the process.
Thanks for sharing and being so honest. Glad to know you're doing okay 💕
wow your eyes look so blue in this video and your hair cut like that is so cute.I love the way you do your sketchbooks
I was working on the last few pages in my sketchbook while watching this so it was really inspiring to see your pages as I filled out my own! I definitely resonate with what you said about wanting to leave your body when the art isn't turning out. For me I realized it was cuz I was doing stuff out of my comfort zone (using pen rather than pencil) and rushing through, it so slowing down and trying to enjoy the process helped me feel that slightly less. Can't wait to see how you continue to improve in your next sketchbook!
Love your sketches!!! And it's so fun watch the process....
❤
I understand oh too well those feelings of frustration, anger, annoyance at oneself…thanks for sharing, Chey.
i relate so much to judging my own work when i draw and feeling frustrated! ive had a big bout of that recently. i find that it can go away when i manage to get deep enough into the flow of drawing - which can be hard when you have a hyper active brain with like at least 3 trains of thought running at the same time lol. having audiobooks on while i draw helps me a bit with that, like getting out of my own head. its not a perfect strategy but its something. i continue to work on it. i hope you find a strategy that works for you!
41:09
i’m the same exact way, also diagnosed with adhd, i’m genuinely my own worse enemy. i’m guessing it just takes time to overcome, and i can’t wait until i do lol
AHH i love your sketchbook, the spreads are so cute
in the middle of this video I got that "frustrated to angry at myself about art" and had to just stop myself from drawing anymore today fdgsfh
I feel like that is the only thing I can do about it
yayyy!! haven’t watched it yet but I was so glad to see it pop up on my homepage :)) thank you so much for your presence as a person as well as your amazing artwork in this little corner of the internet! you are a true inspiration xx
Love your art! Love listening to you chat...so relatable! Also, I love your new hair cut!
whaaaat you give classes about Sense and Sensibility ? And also make wonderful creations ? And also draw so good ? AND YOU PLAY GOOD VIDEO GAMES?? Just so you know you seem to be such a great and accomplished person, and I hope one day you'll realize that all the efforts you made weren't worthless !
Wish you all the love you need and wish you to be your OWN perfect version of yourself ❤️
okay this is kinda silly but i totally get what you mean by getting in your own way, and the way i've been combatting that myself is to get a little stoned before drawing and I'm not sure how to transfer that into my sober headspace but it's really been helping me losen up and try new things without worry!
This is a pretty good idea to use paintings from Renaissance as references !!! I've never thought of that (and I use them a lot in my abstract art but never in my illustration). Thanks for the idea ! I will give it a try (I use photo from Unsplash but... choice is very limited)
hey cheyenne !!! i hope u see this !!!
I have adhd and probably also autism, but the feeling you're describing when you are unhappy with your drawings is something i've struggled with for years after art school -- going to school with an undiagnosed learning disability at the time, finally being expected to put effort into something I also felt passionate about but still lacked skill in, it ended in a lot of trauma that stopped me from drawing for my last year in school (i hit a wall and could not keep going) as well as several years after ! This was 2018 -- the pandemic hit and then I was able to put a lot more time into working through this trauma while reclaiming a passion that was smothered out. This may not be a universal cure, but it seems like you're struggling with similar feelings of the fun being sucked out, an intense focus on what is going to bring in money or skill or productivity, ignoring the part of yourself that gets giddy when you pick up a pen for the part of yourself that feels intimidated by the empty page.
center your FUN !!! do what you find FUN !!! when you spend so much time worried about what it's looking like and how good you're doing or how this is going to fit into your next project, you lose all those fun mistakes that happen when you're experimenting, there's all this pressure to make something that you don't even know anything about yet !!! horse before the carriage type shenanigans.
if you dont like what you're drawing, stop working on that. draw something you do like, draw a million sophies as lil blobs because you know drawing that makes you feel good. my specific feel good doodle has been furby memes for the past 2 years, cause when i draw them it makes me laugh. i was just doing it for fun at first and then it ended up turning into what launched my first ever etsy (shameless plug: etsy.com/shop/oddmerchandise ) just because i really liked the way the furby holding the knife looked lmao. and i only drew that because i wanted to laugh on a particularly difficult day in like january 2021.
TL;DR: when art stops being fun, you have to make it fun again. having fun is the most important part, so if scribbling across the page to make pretty colors like a toddler is going to inject some fun into your process DO IT !!! the same way you have to help your inner voice with your self esteem, you have to help your inner voice have some fun when work is all we are expected to do all the time !!! draw some stupid hair !!! just scribble a bit !!! who cares !!! and then when you're having fun again, your logic brain can come back and figure out how to make it better/monetized/productive. fun first, always !!!
when i overthink and am processing emotions in general, I try to think my thoughts aloud (when i can. If i cant be loud i mutter/whisper or something). It took some getting used to, and im still getting used to it- but it kinda forces you to slow down your thoughts and I respond to myself sometimes to try and validate myself and feel better. I think self validation along with not running from emotions but *feeling* the emotion while being aware of any judgements we make (but not judging ourself for judging-- just *accepting*) are healthy but REALLY HARD methods to dealing with emotions. I hope this helps or at least gives you a new idea on how to approach overthinking. If not, i hope this helps you feel less alone! Or! Something!
getting out of my way and my head... I have been trying to shut off my brain and just do what first comes to my mind and be consumed by that for the duration... i get more done and am more satisfied and feel like I get more ahead from just doing and not thinking at all..
not sure if that was what you meant, but that is what it made me think of, relating to myself
Love your illustrative style!💕
Omg I always try to explain that hot feeling to people and they never get it, but you described exactly how I always feel, like my skin is just too tight and it's infuriating. Loved the video and getting to see your beautiful sketches ❤
thank you for this cosy video! I love your art style and I love tagging along on your art journey ! I hope august is a better month for you sending positive vibes x
this will probably be one of my fave vids from u now chey! :DDD thank uu so much for this!!!
Hey! Fellow ADHD artist friend who gets really mad at myself. I've been doing DBT: it's good for emotional regulation and distress tolerance and just offers lots of tools. There's really nice sheets on it everywhere. I've found it's helped me a lot.
Oh wow, I'd never heard of DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy). It sounds like an amazing approach that could be so helpful for me. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and experience, that's super kind of you. ☘️
This was seriously so lovely, thanks for sharing & being so vulnerable with us. I have ADHD as well and anger is something I struggle with, it’s reassuring to hear another femme person express that because I feel like it’s an emotion that is frowned upon for us. Love all your little characters and this inspired me to open up my larger format sketchbook and play!
Pencil case sure is cute! ♡
You really have a knack for talking to the camera ..it almost felt like a friend complaining to me about hot weather etc..😂😂
Loved how the video ended with HOT by seventeen 🤣✨💗 Your art is always so cute and inspirational Cheyenne!!
as someone who has had the same sketchbook for THREE YEARS and still isn’t done….. i feel you
This whole video is super fun, but the bread on the right page at 34:30 is absolutely killing me
So nice and relaxing, thank you for this! 🤩🥰
my pleasure!!! ty for watching!
Cheyenne, dear! not sketchbook related but: how's the bullet journaling going? Any good notebooks to recommend?
love the new hair! also, your art is beautiful as always 💟
Hi Cheyenne! I am a contemporary dancer- three dimensionality is something we talk about a lot in my world. Might be helpful looking at some pictures or videos of my kind in regards to the working on bodies existing in space thing you mentioned. Just a thought :)
1:16 is so fucking funny every time I rewatch this I lose it at that part
the music selection is always so good chey
aaa ty fin
I also get really angry a lot (a lot more than when I was younger, I used to be more of a crying person instead of angry lol), I usually count on the fact that it will pass if I focus on something else first. it's really hard because almost nobody understand the anger and thinks it's too dramatic hahaha. I don't have it with my art tho, mostly with routine related stuff and/or when I don't get my dopamine while looking forward to it all day 😂
Love you sm Cheyenne 💖
three dimensions... texture and shadow can help add to the the dimensions, like variation in the tone of shadow?
woah, I feel the exact same way with heat. It makes me SO irritable and I don't want anyone to touch me.
Appropriate with your little dodie dots under your eyes and dodie featuring in your sketchbook ;)
i got so excited about your seventeen ref at the end i made a misclick lol cx
So cute
Love it! ♥♡ ♥♡ ♥♡ ♥♡ ♥♡ ♥
It felt like you were describing emotional dysregulation (in connection to drawing frustration) coming from an adhder myself, I dunno could help to read up on it and find tips that way?
Hi I'm a new viewer and sorry if I kinda out of topic but has anyone ever said to you that your face look like a mix between Tom and Summer on 500 days of Summer?!?!?!? AND I EXCITED FOR THAT!! 😃
Love the video so much! What sketchbook do you use? 🌈
agh. absolutely love seeing a new Chey video pop up on my homepage!
question for Cheyenne (and any other Seattle residents)- I'm going on a work trip to Seattle and have one free day on my own (albeit a Monday *sad face*) but does anyone have any recommendations for what I should check out, where I should grab a bite, etc.? anything would be appreciated!!
my two fave fave cafes are Joe Bar in Capitol Hill and Miro Tea in Ballard !!!
we remember the things we work hard on the most.
but in a similar situation.
-ADHD babe
:P
oo what sketchbook do you use??
How did you get son comfortable drawing people?!
what sketchbook do you use ??
I find it so interesting that your sketchbooks are at least 90% people, but then most of your finished pieces are not? Or perhaps just have a tiny person in the composition, or just a torso. Is it because most of your pieces have been done digitally, while your sketchbooks are physical? I suppose I'd like to see more of your process and workshopping of actual completed pieces. More of the beginning stages of your flowers, fruits, cats, landscapes, etc.
I can relate so much to the frustrated/angry feeling when something doesnt work out like if really should. It like why does this look like crap? Come on brain! Wake up and do your job 😝
omg what sketchbook do you use
what sketchbook do you use
I like to think you recorded your audio first for the sketchbook tour and then went back and acted it with your hands lolol
I just got through watching your movie maysville, you're an amazing actress and you look so beautiful and sweet in that movie, I mean it's like the kind of girl that I wanted meet again in my life, I lost my fiance of 9 years 3 years ago, I haven't dated since because I haven't found nobody who is worthy enough to take her place you in that movie was just exactly like her..
the first two sketches you drew look like the girl in profile is staring lovingly at the girl in the striped shirt and it made my little gay heart very happy ☺️
You remind me of Zoey Deschanel
Am I slow…or…how is your hair THIS long after just two weeks?
the opening clip is from before my haircut hehehe
I’m just over here asking questions in real time, like you just made the vid for ME 😌🤣🤣🤣🤣