I like the content of your channel, but i think the editing need some modernisation. For example those sound effects which are intended to make all the thing funny actually sounds silly and old. I think that changing it and make it more modern will have a great impact and bring new public
“Do not be precious with it” 🤣🤣🤣 you guys have no idea how true that is! I once threw my sketchbook across the room because of an art block. I learnt that day how to repair a book and now one of my favourite hobbies is to do book binding 😅.
This is so freaking inspiring. Like “You were doing this one thing, it wasn’t working out and you allowed yourself to react and learn.. You kinda just let life flow without trying to control it and now you have a new hobby that’s currently one of your favorites.” I love this thanks for sharing. Amazing how this comment just helped me almost a year later. Thank you. I’m just going to go through it and see what I get out of it.
I’ve been drawing for years though I haven’t completely mastered a lot of elements to art, I realized that regular sketch paper even printed paper works alright. As for pens, I found ballpoint still being the absolute best even though we’ll have them all over the house. Like Stan says, it’s all about comfort and you don’t need to settle for something very expensive because art is actually a cheap and easy to pick up hobby, perhaps career.
So true! Even with some of the fancier art supplies I have and used, I've sometimes come back to using a ballpoint pen and printer paper quality materials. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What’s a “printed paper”? Do you print paint-by-numbers stuff on it or something else? I have never used a printed paper before, curious what exactly you print on it…
I had no idea why my drawings with colour pencils was grainy and very textured….I’ve only been drawing on sketch paper because i didn’t know there was any difference. Thank god i came across your video Stan. Thank you so much 🙏🏼
I like that bit at the end about sketchbook versus portfolio. Reminds me of when I was a kid people would steal my sketchbooks because they want to see what the “talented” artist kid would draw… needless to say my sketchbook became a portfolio really quick lol 🥲😅 Very useful information all throughout & interesting to hear about the difference between pound and Gram paper. Excellent as always Stan!
I have many sketchbooks, but I honestly love printer paper for practice. I think it's almost 100% psychological though, because it keeps the "this is precious" mentality out of my way. I don't think about that chronological aspect that Stan mentioned as much though. None of my stuff is in order and I even throw it away on occasion. I wonder if people would cringe watching me throw stacks of drawings in the trash 😂? Even in my sketchbooks, my art isn't in order because I have so many and I draw in whatever one is closest to me at the time. I think I may be very different than other people in that respect. I think I'm mostly concerned with what I draw next more than what I already drew. Huh, interesting to do some self analysis.
Oh, Stan, even after years of amateur drawing, your video starts exactly where I am. I want my sketchbooks to have beautiful, semi-finished drawings on every page, but every time I pick up a pencil after a few weeks of not drawing, everything looks like crap to me. I want to be free with my sketchbooks, but I have this sense that "Real Artists" have good drawings on every page. Thanks for bringing me back to Earth.
Years ago I found myself falling into the same mental trap that it has to look good. what I did was I got a sketchbook to specifically do messes in, I wrote all over the cover things like "this sketchbook is for crap" "the perfect imperfections" "the messy sketches" "this sketchbook is for me". Now whenever I get a new sketchbook I'm not precious with any of them, in fact I deliberately mess up the first page doesn't even feel right if I don't.
@@dreamoflegends4004 That is great. I actually NEVER draw on the first page, because I think I'm going to "git gud" and then go back and make that first page a real slapper! It's insanity!
I watched this video by the begining of 2023 and I can't say how grateful I was for deciding to watch this. Your advice is such a game changing for me. I started to throw away all my expectations of creating a masterpiece on a sketchbook and started to draw messily on every sketchbook I got. I finished three sketchbook by the begining of this year. Now I bring my sketchbook anywhere with me. It feels great just to doodle and trying new things with tools I have. Drawing became so so much fun again ❤❤❤🎉 Thank you so much mr. Proko 😭😭😭
Who would have expected a video about which sketchbook to use, to be so helpful and inspiring! I think most artists know they should be taking a sketchbook with them.. but we all get lazy and videos like this are the perfect reminder!
You don't know how much I needed this and how relevant this video was to me. I've been putting off your videos and drawing in general for weeks out of fear and all the goals I've built up in my head. I just picked up a "casual" sketch book a few days ago to take off the pressure as you said and it helped a bit. Just need to remind myself that my drawings won't be amazing for a while and that's okay. :)
I loved using printer paper for a bunch of my pencil sketching at one point. I’d buy a ream, hole punch the sheets, and fill up a folio style 3 ring binder that could be refilled as needed. It allowed me to just get in a ton of sketching mileage without having to worry about using up the paper or making mistakes, and it was one of the things that helped to build my skill and confidence. Later on, I was able to move to sketchbooks with better paper and both appreciate the quality of drawing in them, and feel less intimidation and pressure than I would have done without that printer paper practice. Another type of sketching that I feel helped my drawing in combination with a ton of printer paper was digital. Treating drawing on an iPad much like drawing on paper (not using a ton of the digital bells and whistles), I had the opportunity to sort of bust through my failures faster and/or discover how I could fix something and try it again. This also carried over into more confidence when working in traditional media, because the sense of “I can fix things” started to more and more replace the fear of messing up, and that freedom allowed me to grow.
Thank you! I needed this because I feel so bad when I fill a page with "bad quality" drawings even if there are some good ideas. I can't change my mentality so easy, but hearing you will help me to draw more and try new things or materialize my doubts or when I understand something!
Try to sketch in graphite with not too much pressure, so you can modify later. Yes, i know, i like to sketch in ballpoint or fineliner pens also but thats just sketch page. even if its not very good thats the part of learning process.
Been drawing when the covid-19 pandemic began. Started to burn out after 2022 and didn't touch a pencil for months. Now that I found an art course for the average artist to comprehend, I'm thankful. I don't know how far I can go, but its a start.
When I was starting to draw for real, after failing to fill up a single Strathmore sketch paper book for over a year. I gathered all my HS notebooks, clipped all the blank pages and bound them into a bunch of crude pads. Six months later I had over 900 A4 sheets of doodles and anatomy studies.
Spiral bound books can also be made more sturdy by *tying them together* with bits of string so the spiral is completely closed. I often find that they get beat up easily and start dropping pages. My personal preference as someone doing a lot of watercolour and ink is 300gsm mixed media, ideally toned but white is also good
Spiral books are garbage. Complete garbage. I need one, that has papers sewn together properly, plus a sturgy hardcover. All spiral notebooks are just a stack of papers, since that binding is fake and pages WILL disattach very fast.
I've been watching your channel for years, and this is one of the best videos you've ever done! I'm really excited about this new "How To Draw" series! Thanks for all your hard work!
the jokes are impeccable as always :D thank you for the amazing advice! i struggle a lot with sketching. tried carrying a tiny cheap sketchbook but only used it twice Marshall's voice always brighten my day ❤
Old folks like me (80 yr)/us? Sketchbooks are a wonderful companion. If you haven't heard of Danny Gregory, he has many wonderful thoughts and info on sketchbooks. Proko is a great hub of education continuously getting better. There are a LOT of folks who want to draw. Sketchbooks and good coaches are a real help. Never stop.
@@billlarocque8359 Thanks, Bill, for the information. I am 78 and am getting back to drawing after a long time off, and I need advice. Please stay healthy and draw, my friend.
Lol! Those sunglasses and paper bag! Your ninja skills are amazing! I will definitely be saving this to show to my daughter before she picks her next stack of sketchbooks. I wish I had used more small portable sketchbooks when I was a kid. My dad gave the same advice and usually gave us huge paper to get used to drawing from the elbow and shoulder, then when I got into later years, I was like "I'm running out of space!" or "My wrist isn't doing what I want it to!" Now I have like 5 sketchbooks going at a time in different sizes, from Strathmore and Canson to cheap dollar store paper. ...also because half the time I'm like "IDEA!! Omg paper, I need now!! Where did I put it???" 🤣 Also, for anyone that has tree allergies like I do: definitely buy a cotton spa glove to wear if you don't like the cotton paper. Saves you from sudden rashes and skin conditions.
I love sketchbooks! Im on my fourth one in one year and im in track to fill five in 12 months. (I use a4 140-180 pages usually 120-140gsm for daily use, but I also bound my own with handmade indian cotton paper. I use that one when I feel particularly inspired)
I never knew that I was using a sketch book wrong. Thank you Proko, you made me cough blood from my mistakes and enlightened me of my show book idealism.
Best thing to do for outdoors is buy/make one that looks like it’s a phone case. People will assume you’re arrrrsing about on your phone, won’t ask questions or stare at you and it’ll fit into your pocket comfortably.
I’m new to your channel and I found your channel when thinking and searching what youtube videos might be informative! Your videos are funny either❤ Thank you for sharing your tips and journey!!!!
For me the best way to train myself to not be precious about my work was, at the end of each life drawing class I would immediately throw all my sketches in the bin. That probably seems extreme; I know there's value in re-evaluating old drawings, but when you know nobody is ever going to see your practice work you become a lot less worried about the end result and you're able to be much more present, take risks, and be less anxious about making mistakes. Personally I found that quite liberating and my drawings became a lot more bold as a result.
Wished i got this advice much earlier. Spot on, thank you Proko. Understanding this helps me to be braver and not afraid to make mistakes and enjoy art without pressure❤
I literally don't leave the house w/o my sketchbook, and if it's a planned outing, I have specific one's I bring depending on the destination. My smaller one comes with me throughout the workweek. I eat and draw 😆 (most days) I love drawing and I'm thankful for the talent. So every chance I get, I create!
I don't usually comment but this video has to be the best most comprehensive video I've ever seen on this topic, kinda wishing it was out years ago when I decided to start taking art more seriously. I agreed with basically everything in here and still learned something new, only thing I would add would probably go under the personal preference section, which is I don't like spiral bound sketchbooks anymore because if I want to connect two pages(as in a double spread) when the sketchbook is completely open I won't have the annoying spiral between both pages, sure you can have a double spread with spirals but I don't like it and when its laying flat that's the part where I like to rest my other hand, not very comfortable to do with spirals and if I ever get a toned sketchbook again I'll get toned grey instead of tan I learned I don't prefer the tan color. Absolutely agree about the flimsy books, I need it to be able to support its own weight so when I'm holding it in one hand and drawing with the other I'll have a sturdy backing, I also prefer white paper, so many sketchbooks are cream or off white now😑 to anyone starting out just know that someone who has been doing this for years and years, their "sketches" will look like your idea of a finished piece it's a skill level thing for example if you've ever played a game and got really good and went back to the lower levels it's extremely easy now compared to when you first started playing the game, what these artists can do in a few minutes is more than what you can do in a few minutes, heck when I first started I was still trying to get a circle done under ten minutes 😔😅🤫 but anyways just keep practicing and you'll get there eventually.
Heck! I didn't know there was this many paper types! I now need to try em' all! Imagine if there was a sketch book with all of these paper types within it? That's be really nice to get people out of their confort zone and try new mediums for each type!
I miss drawing on Mayfair paper. It was discontinued, but it had the perfect durability for multi-media works, and it was relatively cheap. Haven't been able to find anything like it.
I don't like huge sketchbooks, mine is always A5, no smaller no larger (that's about 6x8"). By sketchbook I mean a book full of first attempts, like my ongoing art journal. It's not a place where I'd put serious"work." I use a fully bound book with heavy covers, 130-ish GSM paper non-perforated. That's the book I use to test out pens, ink, materials, techniques, effects. If I wanted to sketch a tiger up a tree and I've never tried that before, that's where I'm going to practise relative sizes, positions and looks. The finished drawing or painting goes on much bigger paper, never in this sketchbook. I got drawn into art in my late 40s driven by a need to illustrate children's novels I'd written. I'm talking about traditional pen-&-ink sketches in black-&-white, although I've started working in colour as well. Unlike certain other illustrators (bizarrely) i always use permanent, lightfast materials whether I'm doodling, drawing or painting. It seems crazy to me to buy drawing ink you know isn't lightfast when it's just as easy to get stuff that is. Originally I was going to do all my artwork with a drawing program on a PC. I'm so glad I didn't!
if you are a digital artist you can also take a photo of your sketchbook and use layers ar pages.That way you can decide if and when to start a new one.
lol, I have to return to complete this video but for the reasons that you started with, I am making my own sketchbooks (with really primitive hand-sewn binding) from ledger sized printer paper. I'm really happy with them. I could sketch more but am filling them up at ok pace. would be better if I sketched more for sure... ok, I finished the video. impressed with the production quality/editing. Marshall's message about play. that is pretty important
Really great video! Now i want to go buy a bunch of sketchbooks to experiment lol. Unfortunately this broke boy only has copy paper but i will revisit this video when i go to grab a sketchbook. Thanks Stan! Great editing btw. Really liked the MGS alert while talking about being stealthy lol.
Man, I needed that first part. I just got two sketchbooks and sometimes treat the pages a little too sacred-like. Also that first part made me laugh, bravo.
In all my drawing and art classes. I never had a lesson on papers. I truly wish I did know more about paper a decade ago. And that I understood the value of having a sketchbook with me at all time. You never know whrn you'll see something incredible or just everyday things that you want to try to put on paper. And yeah, BIG Paper is great to have ready at home and in class.
when i started with colored pencils i bought every brand of paper our art store had, smallest size pad or sketchbook available. Those that ended as rejects went to the grandkids so weren't wasted.
I just use printer paper with a clipboard. Its way cheaper than buying a sketchbook. Usually when I'm down to the last few pages with the sketch book I want to save it for a good idea, but I end up drawing less. But definitely if inks are involved it's good to use bristle paper.
I have a roll of newsprint hanging from a clothing rack in this spare bedroom/office/closet-wardrobe/art area space lol that I work in, and if I REALLY like what I did or think I could learn from whatever I might have done on the newsprint, I'll cut it out and paste it into my sketchbook. I'm currently on the hunt for a new roll of paper - looking into butcher paper and kids easel papers (theyre said to take paints and inks and other beatings pretty well lol!) or I may end up buying another brand of newsprint...
Ya I just keep drawing it my doesn't have to be perfect just draw each page to make it better I started when I was 6 years old it was bad but I kept trying
I found the video in my feed just after returning from a restaurant. I brought my sketchbook just for using it while waiting for my food and the funniest doodle is the one of the back part of a coaster car that looks like a silly face
The only art store near me is a hobby lobby and they only carry 1 toned paper sketchbook and it’s a bit small for my taste. That and I hate using Amazon.
I used to make my own sketchbooks by sewing together colored printer paper! I took them with me everywhere, they look like an apocalipse survivors and smell like chemical experiments gone wrong (tried a lot of unorthodox substances in collage and paint) Then I got hooked on Talens art creation sketchbooks. I adore the texture and slight yellow color, but I put too much effort in the sketches now! I don't take the sketchbooks with me anymore, hate the spills and wrinkling on that paper! They are too pretty, so I'm mostly copying masters and writing theory... which is not bad but I can't go back to printer paper! I'm ruined!
also, as a personal preference, I hate ringed sketchbooks! Mostly because I love sketching spreads, weird perpective experiments, for my hand to go from one end to the other uninterrupted, and the paint and rubber shavings love to seep through the ring holes to ruin the pages below. It's good that there is a choice between ring and book binding, wish there were more eastern bindings on the market avaluable.
They make em! Some great watercolor artists like Tiffanie Mang and Marco Bucci are good social follows to see what they use if you're looking for good shopping options.
@ProkoTV I have a Stillman and Birn Beta 9" x12" and have to say I was disappointed by its performance with watercolor. I didn't love the sizing. To be fair, it is listed as a mixed media sketchbook. I am currently on the hunt for something better. I wish the Arches 140lb paper came spiral bound!
OMG I laughed so hard with you staring at the guy across the waiting room. I worry that I might make people uncomfortable doing that... thus I STILL don't draw people. I'll draw the plant in the waiting room, though! I lean towards being a watercolor artist, so I recommend 100% cotton watercolor paper. Cold press if you're sticking with just watercolor, hot press if you like to do a lot of line and wash. And you're right - don't be precious with it. 100% cotton is expensive, but it supports watercolor the best (and doesn't make you think you're incompetent with watercolor while using it), so you've gotta be willing to use the really good stuff.
A sketchbook is useful for travel, but I find that simply having a stack of paper next to where I work makes me a lot less precious than a sketchbook. Of course, the sketches I do like still need to be organised somewhere, but a folder is usually enough for that.
In the end, i mostly only draw on used printer paper (HVS) because it gets the job done and i have a lot of it lying around my house lol Also i draw mostly digital anw
Next week we’ll have a premium-only comprehensive beginners guide to Pencils, Erasers, and Sharpeners! That’s over at proko.com/drawing
I like the content of your channel, but i think the editing need some modernisation. For example those sound effects which are intended to make all the thing funny actually sounds silly and old. I think that changing it and make it more modern will have a great impact and bring new public
In syntesis, change the type of humour!
@@andreapiredda8016 wow, you've spent a lot of time thinking about this. Just draw.
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😂agree 💯 @@kevinconnolly9982
“Do not be precious with it” 🤣🤣🤣 you guys have no idea how true that is! I once threw my sketchbook across the room because of an art block. I learnt that day how to repair a book and now one of my favourite hobbies is to do book binding 😅.
Is book binding a fun hobby? Do you draw anime?
This is so freaking inspiring. Like “You were doing this one thing, it wasn’t working out and you allowed yourself to react and learn.. You kinda just let life flow without trying to control it and now you have a new hobby that’s currently one of your favorites.” I love this thanks for sharing. Amazing how this comment just helped me almost a year later. Thank you. I’m just going to go through it and see what I get out of it.
@@iHyRisk What's your newest hobby, m8?
What's your hobby?@@TheFunnyDictator
@@kumardhruv5621 Watching videos and playing video games, I guess?
01:49 Really cool to see old sketches of Stan. It's nice to see how a master started just like all of us
I’ve been drawing for years though I haven’t completely mastered a lot of elements to art, I realized that regular sketch paper even printed paper works alright. As for pens, I found ballpoint still being the absolute best even though we’ll have them all over the house. Like Stan says, it’s all about comfort and you don’t need to settle for something very expensive because art is actually a cheap and easy to pick up hobby, perhaps career.
So true! Even with some of the fancier art supplies I have and used, I've sometimes come back to using a ballpoint pen and printer paper quality materials. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What’s a “printed paper”? Do you print paint-by-numbers stuff on it or something else? I have never used a printed paper before, curious what exactly you print on it…
I had no idea why my drawings with colour pencils was grainy and very textured….I’ve only been drawing on sketch paper because i didn’t know there was any difference.
Thank god i came across your video Stan. Thank you so much 🙏🏼
Grainy drawings is a style loved by many artists. It’s NOT a mistake.
I like that bit at the end about sketchbook versus portfolio. Reminds me of when I was a kid people would steal my sketchbooks because they want to see what the “talented” artist kid would draw… needless to say my sketchbook became a portfolio really quick lol 🥲😅 Very useful information all throughout & interesting to hear about the difference between pound and Gram paper. Excellent as always Stan!
@prokoarts screw off scambot
Ah, you were one of “those” kids… the losеr artist, who was bad at most subjects at school 😂
@@ELENAOttawa you couldnt be more wrong but thanks for ASSuming.😂moron
I have many sketchbooks, but I honestly love printer paper for practice. I think it's almost 100% psychological though, because it keeps the "this is precious" mentality out of my way. I don't think about that chronological aspect that Stan mentioned as much though. None of my stuff is in order and I even throw it away on occasion. I wonder if people would cringe watching me throw stacks of drawings in the trash 😂? Even in my sketchbooks, my art isn't in order because I have so many and I draw in whatever one is closest to me at the time. I think I may be very different than other people in that respect. I think I'm mostly concerned with what I draw next more than what I already drew. Huh, interesting to do some self analysis.
Oh, Stan, even after years of amateur drawing, your video starts exactly where I am. I want my sketchbooks to have beautiful, semi-finished drawings on every page, but every time I pick up a pencil after a few weeks of not drawing, everything looks like crap to me. I want to be free with my sketchbooks, but I have this sense that "Real Artists" have good drawings on every page. Thanks for bringing me back to Earth.
Years ago I found myself falling into the same mental trap that it has to look good. what I did was I got a sketchbook to specifically do messes in, I wrote all over the cover things like "this sketchbook is for crap" "the perfect imperfections" "the messy sketches" "this sketchbook is for me". Now whenever I get a new sketchbook I'm not precious with any of them, in fact I deliberately mess up the first page doesn't even feel right if I don't.
@@dreamoflegends4004 That is great. I actually NEVER draw on the first page, because I think I'm going to "git gud" and then go back and make that first page a real slapper! It's insanity!
This is probably the best “sketchbook video “ I have ever seen! Incredible advice!
I watched this video by the begining of 2023 and I can't say how grateful I was for deciding to watch this. Your advice is such a game changing for me. I started to throw away all my expectations of creating a masterpiece on a sketchbook and started to draw messily on every sketchbook I got. I finished three sketchbook by the begining of this year. Now I bring my sketchbook anywhere with me. It feels great just to doodle and trying new things with tools I have. Drawing became so so much fun again ❤❤❤🎉 Thank you so much mr. Proko 😭😭😭
Thanks for letting us be a part of your art journey!
Did you draw the anime character in your PFP yourself, ma'am?
@@TheFunnyDictator Yes, draw it by myself
@@sutimomoo How do I get married like you did?
Who would have expected a video about which sketchbook to use, to be so helpful and inspiring! I think most artists know they should be taking a sketchbook with them.. but we all get lazy and videos like this are the perfect reminder!
You don't know how much I needed this and how relevant this video was to me. I've been putting off your videos and drawing in general for weeks out of fear and all the goals I've built up in my head. I just picked up a "casual" sketch book a few days ago to take off the pressure as you said and it helped a bit. Just need to remind myself that my drawings won't be amazing for a while and that's okay. :)
@@anastasiathehiphopfairy Aw thank you. Rooting for you too.
Fear of failure, yes. That's the problem. But taking every page as a chance for learning is such a good advice.
Do you like Violet Evergarden?
@@TheFunnyDictator Yeah.
@@fandeandreaarruti What about Kyoto Animation?
@@fandeandreaarruti Also, what does your name mean, mate, dude?
@@TheFunnyDictator It means that I'm a fan of a voice actress that died, it was her name.
I loved using printer paper for a bunch of my pencil sketching at one point. I’d buy a ream, hole punch the sheets, and fill up a folio style 3 ring binder that could be refilled as needed. It allowed me to just get in a ton of sketching mileage without having to worry about using up the paper or making mistakes, and it was one of the things that helped to build my skill and confidence. Later on, I was able to move to sketchbooks with better paper and both appreciate the quality of drawing in them, and feel less intimidation and pressure than I would have done without that printer paper practice.
Another type of sketching that I feel helped my drawing in combination with a ton of printer paper was digital. Treating drawing on an iPad much like drawing on paper (not using a ton of the digital bells and whistles), I had the opportunity to sort of bust through my failures faster and/or discover how I could fix something and try it again. This also carried over into more confidence when working in traditional media, because the sense of “I can fix things” started to more and more replace the fear of messing up, and that freedom allowed me to grow.
Thank you! I needed this because I feel so bad when I fill a page with "bad quality" drawings even if there are some good ideas. I can't change my mentality so easy, but hearing you will help me to draw more and try new things or materialize my doubts or when I understand something!
Try to sketch in graphite with not too much pressure, so you can modify later. Yes, i know, i like to sketch in ballpoint or fineliner pens also but thats just sketch page. even if its not very good thats the part of learning process.
Been drawing when the covid-19 pandemic began. Started to burn out after 2022 and didn't touch a pencil for months. Now that I found an art course for the average artist to comprehend, I'm thankful. I don't know how far I can go, but its a start.
What complicated course were you taking, when you burnt out? I will try to stay away from that one… Thanks!
I love the level of production this video have!!!!
When I was starting to draw for real, after failing to fill up a single Strathmore sketch paper book for over a year. I gathered all my HS notebooks, clipped all the blank pages and bound them into a bunch of crude pads. Six months later I had over 900 A4 sheets of doodles and anatomy studies.
Spiral bound books can also be made more sturdy by *tying them together* with bits of string so the spiral is completely closed. I often find that they get beat up easily and start dropping pages. My personal preference as someone doing a lot of watercolour and ink is 300gsm mixed media, ideally toned but white is also good
Spiral books are garbage. Complete garbage. I need one, that has papers sewn together properly, plus a sturgy hardcover. All spiral notebooks are just a stack of papers, since that binding is fake and pages WILL disattach very fast.
I've been watching your channel for years, and this is one of the best videos you've ever done! I'm really excited about this new "How To Draw" series! Thanks for all your hard work!
the jokes are impeccable as always :D
thank you for the amazing advice! i struggle a lot with sketching. tried carrying a tiny cheap sketchbook but only used it twice
Marshall's voice always brighten my day ❤
Excellent material, I am an older individual who loves to draw, and your channel is amazing. Thanks, Howard
Old folks like me (80 yr)/us? Sketchbooks are a wonderful companion. If you haven't heard of Danny Gregory, he has many wonderful thoughts and info on sketchbooks. Proko is a great hub of education continuously getting better. There are a LOT of folks who want to draw. Sketchbooks and good coaches are a real help. Never stop.
@@billlarocque8359 Thanks, Bill, for the information. I am 78 and am getting back to drawing after a long time off, and I need advice. Please stay healthy and draw, my friend.
Talking about sketchbooks hit all the right places. Give me so much anxiety just watching it. Great video thanks I needed the wake up call.
I kinda like the Toned Tan because i draw more messier and more texture probably gonna switch to it. Thank you Stan!
Lol! Those sunglasses and paper bag! Your ninja skills are amazing!
I will definitely be saving this to show to my daughter before she picks her next stack of sketchbooks.
I wish I had used more small portable sketchbooks when I was a kid. My dad gave the same advice and usually gave us huge paper to get used to drawing from the elbow and shoulder, then when I got into later years, I was like "I'm running out of space!" or "My wrist isn't doing what I want it to!" Now I have like 5 sketchbooks going at a time in different sizes, from Strathmore and Canson to cheap dollar store paper. ...also because half the time I'm like "IDEA!! Omg paper, I need now!! Where did I put it???" 🤣
Also, for anyone that has tree allergies like I do: definitely buy a cotton spa glove to wear if you don't like the cotton paper. Saves you from sudden rashes and skin conditions.
I love sketchbooks! Im on my fourth one in one year and im in track to fill five in 12 months. (I use a4 140-180 pages usually 120-140gsm for daily use, but I also bound my own with handmade indian cotton paper. I use that one when I feel particularly inspired)
I never knew that I was using a sketch book wrong. Thank you Proko, you made me cough blood from my mistakes and enlightened me of my show book idealism.
Ive been doing art for so long i didnt know a lot of these specifics about sketchbooks! Thank you!!
Oh my gosh; laughing out loud. Very entertaining AND educational.
Best thing to do for outdoors is buy/make one that looks like it’s a phone case. People will assume you’re arrrrsing about on your phone, won’t ask questions or stare at you and it’ll fit into your pocket comfortably.
IPad with procreate apo is best for outdoors, actually.
I’m new to your channel and I found your channel when thinking and searching what youtube videos might be informative! Your videos are funny either❤ Thank you for sharing your tips and journey!!!!
For me the best way to train myself to not be precious about my work was, at the end of each life drawing class I would immediately throw all my sketches in the bin. That probably seems extreme; I know there's value in re-evaluating old drawings, but when you know nobody is ever going to see your practice work you become a lot less worried about the end result and you're able to be much more present, take risks, and be less anxious about making mistakes. Personally I found that quite liberating and my drawings became a lot more bold as a result.
Thank you so much for this video🌹
I wish that I had these information long time ago😊
Wished i got this advice much earlier. Spot on, thank you Proko. Understanding this helps me to be braver and not afraid to make mistakes and enjoy art without pressure❤
I literally don't leave the house w/o my sketchbook, and if it's a planned outing, I have specific one's I bring depending on the destination. My smaller one comes with me throughout the workweek. I eat and draw 😆 (most days)
I love drawing and I'm thankful for the talent. So every chance I get, I create!
That truly was the ultimate guide for sketchbooks. Impressive! Thanks for all that juicy knowledge.
1:36 Huh. Never considered drawing _everywhere_ I’ll try that!
I don't usually comment but this video has to be the best most comprehensive video I've ever seen on this topic, kinda wishing it was out years ago when I decided to start taking art more seriously. I agreed with basically everything in here and still learned something new, only thing I would add would probably go under the personal preference section, which is I don't like spiral bound sketchbooks anymore because if I want to connect two pages(as in a double spread) when the sketchbook is completely open I won't have the annoying spiral between both pages, sure you can have a double spread with spirals but I don't like it and when its laying flat that's the part where I like to rest my other hand, not very comfortable to do with spirals and if I ever get a toned sketchbook again I'll get toned grey instead of tan I learned I don't prefer the tan color. Absolutely agree about the flimsy books, I need it to be able to support its own weight so when I'm holding it in one hand and drawing with the other I'll have a sturdy backing, I also prefer white paper, so many sketchbooks are cream or off white now😑 to anyone starting out just know that someone who has been doing this for years and years, their "sketches" will look like your idea of a finished piece it's a skill level thing for example if you've ever played a game and got really good and went back to the lower levels it's extremely easy now compared to when you first started playing the game, what these artists can do in a few minutes is more than what you can do in a few minutes, heck when I first started I was still trying to get a circle done under ten minutes 😔😅🤫 but anyways just keep practicing and you'll get there eventually.
Looking forward to the new year? Can we get more Asking Pro videos. Keep it going, love this channel!
Heck! I didn't know there was this many paper types! I now need to try em' all! Imagine if there was a sketch book with all of these paper types within it? That's be really nice to get people out of their confort zone and try new mediums for each type!
I felt the same way with my sketchbooks. Also I got some white pages and started to use them as a new day of practicing my drawings.
I miss drawing on Mayfair paper. It was discontinued, but it had the perfect durability for multi-media works, and it was relatively cheap. Haven't been able to find anything like it.
Very useful presentation. Thank you!
I needed this today I’ve drawn for a long time but still go down this spiral..
I don't like huge sketchbooks, mine is always A5, no smaller no larger (that's about 6x8"). By sketchbook I mean a book full of first attempts, like my ongoing art journal. It's not a place where I'd put serious"work." I use a fully bound book with heavy covers, 130-ish GSM paper non-perforated. That's the book I use to test out pens, ink, materials, techniques, effects. If I wanted to sketch a tiger up a tree and I've never tried that before, that's where I'm going to practise relative sizes, positions and looks. The finished drawing or painting goes on much bigger paper, never in this sketchbook.
I got drawn into art in my late 40s driven by a need to illustrate children's novels I'd written. I'm talking about traditional pen-&-ink sketches in black-&-white, although I've started working in colour as well. Unlike certain other illustrators (bizarrely) i always use permanent, lightfast materials whether I'm doodling, drawing or painting. It seems crazy to me to buy drawing ink you know isn't lightfast when it's just as easy to get stuff that is.
Originally I was going to do all my artwork with a drawing program on a PC. I'm so glad I didn't!
Great video ! I will be forever thankful for your content in general. Have a great day !!
if you are a digital artist you can also take a photo of your sketchbook and use layers ar pages.That way you can decide if and when to start a new one.
This video is both hilarious and insightful! Thank you, it was a pleasure to watch.
I just find your channel and it’s great! Thank you a lot I find your videos very useful🙏🙏🙏
lol, I have to return to complete this video but for the reasons that you started with, I am making my own sketchbooks (with really primitive hand-sewn binding) from ledger sized printer paper. I'm really happy with them. I could sketch more but am filling them up at ok pace. would be better if I sketched more for sure... ok, I finished the video. impressed with the production quality/editing. Marshall's message about play. that is pretty important
The first couple minutes were epic advice for me.
Really great video! Now i want to go buy a bunch of sketchbooks to experiment lol. Unfortunately this broke boy only has copy paper but i will revisit this video when i go to grab a sketchbook. Thanks Stan! Great editing btw. Really liked the MGS alert while talking about being stealthy lol.
That park scene🤓😂🤣😂🤣
Thank you.. Proko.. for such a valuable information..
awesome info Proko, really quality video with enough fun stuff to enjoy watching it besides learning :)
Man, I needed that first part. I just got two sketchbooks and sometimes treat the pages a little too sacred-like. Also that first part made me laugh, bravo.
its a good thing i saw this video i recently bought a sketch book
In all my drawing and art classes. I never had a lesson on papers. I truly wish I did know more about paper a decade ago. And that I understood the value of having a sketchbook with me at all time. You never know whrn you'll see something incredible or just everyday things that you want to try to put on paper. And yeah, BIG Paper is great to have ready at home and in class.
For a practice sketchbook I recommend the brown Strathmore sketchpad it’s never failed me.
I love this guy
when i started with colored pencils i bought every brand of paper our art store had, smallest size pad or sketchbook available. Those that ended as rejects went to the grandkids so weren't wasted.
I was just thinking about which sketchbook to bring with me on a trip to the Philippines!
I just use printer paper with a clipboard. Its way cheaper than buying a sketchbook. Usually when I'm down to the last few pages with the sketch book I want to save it for a good idea, but I end up drawing less. But definitely if inks are involved it's good to use bristle paper.
Multimedia rules! Works with almost everything!
the first advice really suits me
I usually throw my sketchbook on the wall for no absolute reason
in my 8ish years of hobbyist art I went through
7 white sketchbooks
and
20 toned sketchbooks lmao
love brown paper
another glorious example of metric system overwhelming superiority
I have a roll of newsprint hanging from a clothing rack in this spare bedroom/office/closet-wardrobe/art area space lol that I work in, and if I REALLY like what I did or think I could learn from whatever I might have done on the newsprint, I'll cut it out and paste it into my sketchbook.
I'm currently on the hunt for a new roll of paper - looking into butcher paper and kids easel papers (theyre said to take paints and inks and other beatings pretty well lol!) or I may end up buying another brand of newsprint...
Ya I just keep drawing it my doesn't have to be perfect just draw each page to make it better I started when I was 6 years old it was bad but I kept trying
I've finished many sketchbooks and haven't start another one again in years, I guess it's time I do another one :D
1:43 I swear this actually saved me a lot of time of justification for why I love sunglasses
Great video, very helpful! I'm on my 4th sketchbook, and I was thinking to buy a more thick and bigger one
1:00 That escalated quickly
I found the video in my feed just after returning from a restaurant. I brought my sketchbook just for using it while waiting for my food and the funniest doodle is the one of the back part of a coaster car that looks like a silly face
The only art store near me is a hobby lobby and they only carry 1 toned paper sketchbook and it’s a bit small for my taste. That and I hate using Amazon.
I used to make my own sketchbooks by sewing together colored printer paper! I took them with me everywhere, they look like an apocalipse survivors and smell like chemical experiments gone wrong (tried a lot of unorthodox substances in collage and paint)
Then I got hooked on Talens art creation sketchbooks. I adore the texture and slight yellow color, but I put too much effort in the sketches now! I don't take the sketchbooks with me anymore, hate the spills and wrinkling on that paper! They are too pretty, so I'm mostly copying masters and writing theory... which is not bad but I can't go back to printer paper! I'm ruined!
also, as a personal preference, I hate ringed sketchbooks! Mostly because I love sketching spreads, weird perpective experiments, for my hand to go from one end to the other uninterrupted, and the paint and rubber shavings love to seep through the ring holes to ruin the pages below. It's good that there is a choice between ring and book binding, wish there were more eastern bindings on the market avaluable.
Would love a large spiral bound watercolor sketchbook.
They make em! Some great watercolor artists like Tiffanie Mang and Marco Bucci are good social follows to see what they use if you're looking for good shopping options.
@ProkoTV I have a Stillman and Birn Beta 9" x12" and have to say I was disappointed by its performance with watercolor. I didn't love the sizing. To be fair, it is listed as a mixed media sketchbook. I am currently on the hunt for something better. I wish the Arches 140lb paper came spiral bound!
Прохожу курс с авто переводом на русский. Это первый структурированный курс для рисования, который я пока встретила)
The force is strong with this one, sick video dude! 😷
OMG I laughed so hard with you staring at the guy across the waiting room. I worry that I might make people uncomfortable doing that... thus I STILL don't draw people. I'll draw the plant in the waiting room, though! I lean towards being a watercolor artist, so I recommend 100% cotton watercolor paper. Cold press if you're sticking with just watercolor, hot press if you like to do a lot of line and wash. And you're right - don't be precious with it. 100% cotton is expensive, but it supports watercolor the best (and doesn't make you think you're incompetent with watercolor while using it), so you've gotta be willing to use the really good stuff.
I NEEDED TO HEAR THIS! THANKS 💙😭
A sketchbook is useful for travel, but I find that simply having a stack of paper next to where I work makes me a lot less precious than a sketchbook. Of course, the sketches I do like still need to be organised somewhere, but a folder is usually enough for that.
Very good lessons
So is drawing basics will be like anatomy course? Like free course which require premium for extra stuff?
I love Strathmore paper sketchbooks.
Amazing production
paper on the left is my go to. 12:34
Spot on, thanks for advice
omg the drawings representing the types of paper killed me.
Proko: “they keep your work chronological”
Me: opens random pages and just start drawing regardless of order and embracing the chaos 😂
That's one way to do it! lol
Hey! Great video. I loved it! Thanks :)
Thank you this helped me alot! :D
In the end, i mostly only draw on used printer paper (HVS) because it gets the job done and i have a lot of it lying around my house lol
Also i draw mostly digital anw
Failure leads to doubt.
Doubt leads to fear.
Fear leads to 15 empty sketchbooks sitting on your shelves.
I love your videos!!!! This is great.
Hey, I have that little Koh-I-Noor elephant eraser too!
Thanks proko nice video. 🖼️🎨
Marshall wise words are the hallmark or the “Artist Wisdom”
Sir you are great 👍😌
I love cold-pressed cotton paper, but printer paper has been my homie since I was 3.
I like the idea to draw only for fun, only to observe the real world and simple draw, anymore, just fun, study, practice and draw a lot