Calarts Sketchbooks are bad for you?
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- I think Calarts sketchbooks are bad for you. This is my work sketchbook. What it is, is basically the first step of every painting I do. I sketch out whatever ideas and notes for a big project here. There's a difference between the two types of 'sketching', it's just that we use the same word for both. One is the pretty kind, the kind you do sketchbook tours of. The other is the more functional kind, where it's about getting the ideas down on paper and figuring stuff out.
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As someone who has cheap sketchbooks, I find them more likely for scribbles and maybe some colouring then and there but not to drastic. I love to scribble and doodle a lot, not worrying to much of the doodles being perfect , but I do often cover them with sticky notes just to go over it again. I don't own too much of quality supplies so I mostly use what I have to draw. Though, I do have a few nice sketchbooks but I feel like I'm going to ruin them most of the time, so I put them aside for later. Often when I start a new sketchbook, I like to revisit the previous one just to get some inspiration. When I wanna do a full piece, I like to plan out stuff in them so I can later transfer that idea on canvas. Feel free to mess around in your sketchbook, try new things like a different art supply, different style ect. You don't need expensive art supplies to make art, sometimes cheap can come off better than expensive! Have fun drawing folks!
Edit: In my opinion, every scribble has some meaning or something behind the process of it. Even how messy it may look. When I get to describe my sketchbook, every page has its own theme or story that represents it, I guess. Just wanted to add something on top since it crossed my mind while writing this.
I totally agree. It's awesome reading about how everyone has their own way of using a sketchbook. There is no wrong answer and that's why its really cool seeing how different everyone's sketchbooks are.
I actually work in art journals with other intentions, but I do want to support your revisiting old sketchbooks. Painters have their old paintings or photos of them. They like most want to keep growing and changing. Knowing where you've been is key to moving forward. My journals are idea factories, but I also keep digital notes with RUclips links, new product reviews, scans from magazines, and even some art rants that need a safe home.
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reminder: the only way to waste art supplies is to not use them
Saving for posterity
Lordy! I recognize the truth in that, but I still struggle with it to the point that I just don't use my supplies for fear of wasting them.
ooo That's real nice.
this is so true but i still save them for when i’m better of an artist
you’ve captured my dilemma gloriously
I think the messier sketchbooks are more interesting to look at. When I see a sketchbook filled with completed colored illustrations it's a bit boring no matter how beautiful the art is. A sketchbook is the only place where you'll see process. If I wanted to look at completed illustrations I could go to any art gallery online. The process is what's most interesting in sketchbooks!
it's an example of something that's so good it's bad. a hyper-polished sketchbook tells me nothing about the artist because all the information leading up to the product is hidden. I'm more interested in the nitty gritty of the process than what eventually becomes of it, because the most interesting parts of someone's art comes from how they approach their ideas
That's why I love Kim Jung Gi's sketchbooks. He has a lot of quick messy sketches mixed in with them, but he is so skilled even those are beautiful to look at while also giving you a look at his process.
Not to mention most of the time completed sketches are never shared with the world so the owners end up with these tomes of dead art.
i love seeing the sketches and doodles that made the full drawings! seeing someone's thought process is much more helpful than seeing the complete artwork!
A sketchbook is not called "sketchbook" for nothing. It should be full of sketches, but I see more and more full colored pictures in them. And that's not really it.
I avoid sketch book tours as so many of these “sketch books” aren’t sketch books they’re more like portfolios. It gives a very daunting and false impression of what a sketch book really is and should be.
right, it voids the point of the word sketch, nobody carefully constructs a "sketch" for 3 hours with heavy details and multiple layers. That's a full piece. A sketch is a lighter, quicker idea of a piece. Don't get me wrong, A LOT of "sketches" are reeeaaally goood, but they aren't full works like you'd see in a portfolio (like you said)
Mine was part sketches and a lot of notes. I was shocked at some sketchbooks that have dried leaves or flowers, burnt edges of papers that dont even have a connection to anything in theirs. Like it's just for aesthetics sake.
@@alexchip1351 This not only happens with calarts sketchbooks, you can see a lot of youtubers here who do sketchbook tours and every page is a full on painting that took more than an hour. Its all good tho, i just hope some people who dont have enough knowledge start thinking that their sketchbooks have to be a full on portfolio.
Same, my sketch book seems so bad in comparison... But I try to avoid comparing and just be proud of my art, thinking there is always better than each of us, and if we focus on it, we will do nothing.
I personally like making nice looking, aesthetic and colorful sketchbooks. It’s very important for me to make something that looks good. I understand why you’re all saying sketchbook should be only for practicing new techniques and sketches, but I think everyone has their own way to do it and if someone want to make something that looks nice, let them do it.
That's true. Also the calarts sketchbook tours kind of are making a lot of ppl to do the same "reciepe" of sketchbook
I saw other day three sketchbooks that imitate the same order of drawings, and I dont believe that all those ppl think the same way...
I started to look some russian yt and they are totaly okay with showing the good and bad drawings. They are precious babies 🥺
This also makes us less creative when making your own sketchbook, why? We are thinking that we are doing it the wrong way, this limits creativity for sketchbooks and ends up making us uncomfortable when drawing.
To be fair, all Calarts has a list of criteria to be met for their application, so I don't blame them for drawing the same type of stuff. It's when it bleeds into 'regular' sketchbooks that I find to be a slippery slope.
Can you kindly name the Russian yt? I want to find motivation and inspiration from various sources and I feel like I’m running out of sources 😂
I need the link of their yt please
Lavanya me tooo
"who wants to look at scribbly messes?"
Me!
Me too!
Sketchbooks are places to fail courageously. They often aren't pretty, and are full of scribbles, but are also where progress happens and where artists can ruminate in and explore different creative ideas. I'd have to agree with you- Calarts sketchbooks can be potentially bad because if those perfect little museum pieces of paper are an example of what sketchbook 'should' be, then it leaves no room for failure. I think what you said about Calarts sketchbooks actually being art journals is quite accurate because, bro, my sketches are scribbles, failures, and definitely not Calarts material. But that's because those scribbles are not a part of an art journal, they're in a sketchbook.
Thanks for the video. Gave me a lot to think about. (Also, your editing, overall video pacing, and camera work is fantastic👌)
When I first started filling sketchbooks I got really self conscious about it because I thought it was too ugly. It's a shame that I kept comparing it to the Calarts submissions, since those sketchbooks weren't filled organically, they were filled as an assignment to get into an art school which had strict requirements and goals for what they wanted prospective students to have in their applications.
I feel like my sketchbooks now are a mixture of the 'pretty' sketchbook tours and the scrap ones. One thing I noticed is that my 'ugly' sketchbooks got way less views than the 'pretty' ones. Idk if it is because it had no commentary or people hated the music I put in it but it made me think.
I felt strangely soothed after watching this. I feel insecure about my sketchbook because I'm a beginner AND it's not finished pieces only scribbles. I feel a little bit better you confirming that people with ultra cool looking sketchbook ALSO do messier things but do them elsewhere
I'm so glad you've talked about this. I see so many people setting goals to create a finished illustration on each page and it's crazy. They can't give themselves chance to explore an idea, iterate and study because they think that it needs to look like a piece of artwork as a whole. I used to think that way to a degree and sometimes I still might put a box of colour behind a sketch to make it pop out if I really like it, but working freely in my sketchbook, mostly doing studies and messy stuff has helped me to improve so quickly!
I met a guy once, and he showed me his sketchbook and I showed him mine, and he looked at me weird seeing all of the stuff that I left unfinished, scribbled, unpolished, etc. in my sketchbook. I just looked at him and went like "You know, I usually do the finished ones digitally, so these ones don't matter too much".
@@taliyahofthenasaaj7570 haha why did he have only finished pieces? also for me i try to fill the entire page on all my sketchbooks, thats why i see ppls sketchbooks and im all like no finish the page... this has to do with me being poor. i filled almost 5 or 6 school notebooks when i went broke.
This is like everything I was thinking in the past 3 months Of quarantine lmao. All I have been doing is sittin on my bed watching sketchbook tours and feeling insecure. Thank you so much for this video for real! Ps. I love ur videos.
Lots of people here saying they are to afraid to use their expensive sketchbook, or too afraid to use their nice supplies. Just use them! :D You aren't wasting anything if you are enjoying the process or learning something. I don't use expensive sketchbooks often but I will treat myself every now and then because they are just nice to work in. The more you use your supplies and the more sketchbooks you get through, the more improvement you will see in your art - so don't be afraid of wasting supplies or nice paper, you are using it for a reason :)
*laughs in cheap art supplies*
But honestly tho cheap doesnt always mean bad.
@@sy-zu4uz of course not! My favourite art supply is a ballpoint pen! :)
for those people, i would suggest using a notebook, its super cheap, although, then you have to redraw it if you want to post it anywhere on the history of this earth
I feel like that about my gouache paint. I hate making crappy paintings cause it feels like a wasted paint. But the only way for me to get better is to make crappy paintings and use up paint. It hurts but I'm still doing it
I just noticed that this got posted right when I needed it-
Me: *Sees Title*
My last three brain cells: Well, I don’t think your supposed to eat sketchbooks....
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I've never agreed more! Also, I LOVE your work sketchbook, it's always super cool to me seeing people's messy scribbles and plans and honestly I'm amazed by your architecture and perspective.
yes! a while ago on tiktok someone showed their actual A-LEVELS STUDIO ARTS FOLIO and called it a sketchbook. all the comments were like “puts all the other sketchbooks to shame 🤪💞” this really rubbed me the wrong way because I didn’t want people to think their sketchbooks had to look like a literal school portfolio. i also didn’t want to discourage people from perhaps pursuing art and buying a sketchbook if they thought it had to look like that. thanks for this vid :)
When his 'uninteresting' work sketchbook is way more solid than your never-finished portfolio.T.T
That song of storms remix is so calming man
Yes! There’s a lot less pressure when using cheaper sketchbooks. If it’s $1 per page, I find myself always questioning if my sketch is worth it. Use the cheaper one, draw more, get better. Use the expensive ones for portfolios, gifts, or for $ale.
you are totally right. when the cost goes up the creativity goes down as the guilt takes hold.
The cal art sketchbook tours are pretty helpful to know what cal art is looking for in their applicants. In terms of trying diff mediums and practicing drawing... yeah it’s kinda discouraging and scary in a way. I mostly keep my sketchbook to myself and just draw then move on. I don’t expect my sketchbook to be pretty looking anymore bc I’m trying to think of the big picture and concept when I sketch.
I absolutely love Calarts sketchbooks and find a lot of inspiration in them, but I agree that for many of us, it creates a real fear of messing up in our own. And yeah, a part of that is because you don't wanna feel like you 'wasted your money' scribbling instead of creating a work of art on each page.
Thanks for the video and may I say, YOUR SKETCHES AND CONCEPT ART ARE FANTASTIC. You deserve more appreciation.
for real, my sketchbook it's a mess! sometimes i will color an entire pretty page but the next one it's just me trying some art supplies and scribbling or even writing. love your honesty!
My first thought when I saw a calarts sketchbook video was "where are the boxes?"
Dang, I love this. I totally agree that seeing all the beautiful sketchbooks on youtube just makes me and others feel like absolute garbage about their own. And while I think that obviously showing an amazing and beautiful final piece of art is important, I think the beginning stages or creation should be equally valued. It shows the thought process of a piece, and can reveal so much about it. It can also show the amount of creativity being thrown into something, having to draw things in many ways just to get it right. I think that should be valued just as much as the final piece, as it can really show dedication to ones work, rather than only complete works of art.
calarts sketchbook are made like a separate masterpiece (like a portfolio) to impress the board that will review it, and decide whether or not you'll get in to CalArts
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Ahahaha as someone who’s applied 3 times before being accepted, they totally can be bad for you. The faculty can tell when you’ve been watching sketchbook videos because a lot of them start looking similar. Maybe watching them to give you ideas is a nice thing, but don’t be too influenced by them. A good reference for a sketchbook is to think about what you need to do to get a movie or tv show up and running. Concept artists might need to draw epic scenes but they still need to figure out props and stuff. A producer doesn’t care about stickers and pressed flowers, rather they want to see that you’re trying to figure out a prop’s shape. Everyone works differently, so everyone has a different looking sketchbook. The main pointers of a good sketchbook is
1. Your voice and individual style can be seen. Show that you are confident in your work.
2. Your thought process can be seen, though, don’t be too messy. Managing page space is important to having a readable sketchbook, but it’s not a art gallery.
3. Draw from life, draw from what’s around you. It can be your pets, your culture, what you watch, buildings around you
4. Show through what you draw that you’re interested in animation/film making. Not just making illustrations
5. At the end of the day, make sure what you’re drawing is truly your own voice. They’re interested in people who can add something new to the animation industry, not a clone of someone else.
6. Don’t ruminate on your drawings. Animation is a type of industry that likes to see quality work that’s quick. A few quick 5 minute doodles that have a lot of information is better than 1 very labored drawing.
I’ve also have heard a lot of talk about the preference of using pens over any other medium. That’s not necessarily the case, the faculty just want to see that confident in your own work. Seeing an drawing that’s been erased 20 times doesn’t scream confidence but the school is cool with pencil as long as you show mastery over the medium like Erin McDermott. Draw with whatever medium makes you most confident.
Anyways, good luck if y’all are thinking of applying!
God I feel this, I ended up with such a huge self hatred to the point I just didn’t draw. One day I said “fuck it” and decided to start a series called my “shitbooks” which I just would open up and draw whatever I wanted wherever I wanted in it. I’ve now gone from never filling a book to filling almost 2 a year! That is a 200% increase from my past and I appreciate the messy scribbles so much more~
I keep a "pretty sketchbook" and a messier sketchbook at the same time. I find it helps to keep a balance between my want for a more "aesthetic" sketchbook and my want for a space where I can just scribble and unload ideas for bigger pieces.
gonna rewatch this video once in a while as a gentle reminder)
3:15 Bro i really felt that. I've made my sketchbook out of normal A4 paper and cardboard, mine it's actually broken 'cuz I'm a walking disaster. But it's part of the beautt of it.
Tysm for this video :3 I can relate now
I had like 1 A3 sketchpad I'll probably never use, the paper is liek 100g/m, not thick enough for markers to not bleed but smooth so drawing with markers and fineliners is a really great experience. But I would never use that A3 sketchpad - I've had it for about 5ish years and still almost haven't used it.
So, during quarantine, I finished my last sketchbook. And I went "oof, how am i supposed to buy a new one now? Stores dont work. I guess I could order one, but I like to feel the paper and everything...' then it came to me. I could just use my old sketchpad and just turn it into a smaller sketchbook.
I watched a few tutorials on youtube about how to sew a book, cut every page into 4 and now I have a great A5 sketchbook with that paper I probably wouldnt have used, for free /if you dont count the money I spend 5 years ago for buying the old sketchpad/. The covers were made out of the cardboard covers ont he old sketchpad, and I've decorated it with stickers. It does the job pretty well, I might say.
TL;DR: If you can't buy a sketchbook - do your own, it does the job.
I don’t completely agree with you 😁
For me it is a safe place where I can experiment with different art materials. It can be paints, ink, pencils and so on. I need thick paper to hold it. And I mix pages with simple sketches with those that I want to beautifully design! 😉
finally someone clears my mind! I always wondered why my sketchbooks looked so different, I like the moleskine notebooks but when people looked at my sketchbook everyone looked very disappointed looking that mine had many scribbles and repetitions of a mess. liked and sub!
thank you for this video it made me feel alot better cause i was comparing my ugly sketchbook to theirs and it would discourage me and make me not wanna draw or sketch for days ..!
and btw everything you show in this video was MASTERPIECE GODLY DRAWINGS ✨💖
you should do a q&a video!!! so curious about where you've studied and how you developed your skills!!
I like that your sketchbooks looks real. every one have their own style and we should don't be sad at ourselves, but instead take inspiration to improve.
pd: your draws are cool
I've just discovered your channel, it's way too underrated
Thank you for addressing this! I felt like sketchbook tours discourage a lot of new artists because they think everything has to be neat and perfect.
I understand what you mean. I like 40% of the art I do. But looking at those pretty books inspires me and then I want to do better. I think it's exciting. But also intimidating. So you're not wrong
Recently I have been watching a lot of calart sketchbook videos and as an artist even I was little bit confused as to how all the artwork are done so nicely . BUT one thing I hated is that everybody had the same style. Nobody's tryna do something that can make them different from the whole crowd . If you showed me these different videos by different artists na , I still would guess that it's all done by the same person , for real!
Funny you mention feeling more freedom with your cheap sketchbook. Same thing happens to me. I'll go out and buy a very nice journal for drawing, but I always feel intimidated and pressured to do "good sketches" in them because the journals are so nice (and expensive). Meanwhile I'll buy a cheap $3 sketchpad at a dollar store and fill it up with out inhibitions because I don't feel pressure over wasting bad quality paper.
whenever i watched sketchbook tours I thought the exact same thing. I was like where are the artist's mistake? Where do these artists fail? My sketch books are a mess, some pages look ok and others look like shit and thats fine, bc its where I have the chance to fail. But I love to see artists mistakes or half thought out ideas as well as their finished works. I get why they dont share it bc it hard enough to share your already completed work, let alone sharing your mistakes or just messy sketches but I think they have just as much value too.
Whenever I draw I like making sure my sketchbooks have some complete and beautiful paintings, while also adding the process and doodles, and just plain sketches
I like it when I see sketchbooks have both nice artworks and messy doodles
Expensive sketchbook deserves expensive art 😭😭😭
Expensive sketchbooks and supplies deserve to be used regardless of skill - your not wasting anything if you enjoy It and are learning something :)
THANK YOU. I am an "older" artist than most of the people here on RUclips browsing art channels, but it has become exhausting trying to find a sketchbook tour video or proper sketches in general. What I have found are mostly completed drawings (thus not really qualifying as "sketches"), very little mess-ups, reference material or other tidbits I would think would be in a sketchbook. Instead, I find perfectly rendered tiny paintings or drawings and as someone who struggles with using and completing sketchbooks, it's really disheartening to see.
Don't get me wrong, I still love looking at the work of other people, but it fundamentally bothers me and makes me think, even as a person in her 30s, that there must just be "something wrong with me" or that I'm not "good enough" because my sketchbooks don't look like little walking museums of art like I see here.
P.S. I adore the mechanical cicada. Insects/arachnids are so fun to draw and implement into other avenues artistically!
ohh jeeze i needed this. i always get so stressed about making my sketchbooks messy and if my art turns out weird i end up ripping the page out. i end up comparing myself too much to other artists that have much nicer or polished/pretty looking sketches than me. it’s been hard for me to get out of the mindset of trying to make really pretty looking spreads and having every page be well thought out and look beautiful.
i sketch a lot on random scratch papers lying around the house (mostly practice, since i'm just frustrated), put holes on the side of the papers, and I put them all in a 6-ring binder no matter how trashy they were drawn. LOL. I look into them sometimes for references or when I need to brainstorm ideas from my old self. Some friends gift me some brand new blank notebooks but I never get to use them because they intimidate me. LOL.
I totally get what you’re saying and I agree. But as someone who’s applying to calarts this fall the calarts sketchbook videos help me learn what calarts is looking for based on which ones get accepted. Also the only reason why they look so perfect is because it’s not meant to be a regular sketchbook months of work and stress goes into making them perfect, those books are works of art themselves and are half of the application that will make or break the person who applies future. So no one is trying to act like they are casual sketchbooks they’re just trying to help someone else who applies in the future.
I personnaly watch sketchbook reviews to get inspiration from the work of others. In mine, you would find practice sketches, ideas doodles, thumbnails just next to finished works that took hours to complete. And I prefer it that way. It show who I am and what I do. When I do live drawing sessions, I feel like most people's sketchbooks are like mines. I guess on youtube you only find portfolios disguised as sketchbooks.
I really like that your "scribbles" looks very confident and beautiful on such thin paper. all the sketchbooks that I bought in my city had pretty thin paper. I taught myself for a long time not to draw too much on one sheet, because the density did not allow and always admired those who could draw at once what they needed without damaging the paper to holes
For a few years I literally made finished works and compositions in my sketchbooks and wouldn't draw unless I was going to do something finished. So you can imagine I spent more time NOT drawing. It's weird because my sketchbooks from 20 years ago were work books, with gesturals, rough concepts and vent scribbles. I was also learning. I feel when I transitioned in to doing only finished art in my sketchbooks I stopped learning. This year I have returned to using a work sketchbook, and I feel that has helped restore my enjoyment of art again.
I love this. Thanks for sharing your art and sharing your thoughts!
Wow, your channel is growing! keep it up!!
I think you're missing the point of "Calarts Sketchbooks".. Those are not made simply to show off the pretty pictures, but rather to present the portfolio that they turned in to a specific institute for admission purposes. As long as those sketchbooks are part of a portfolio, especially for a school as competitive as Calarts, they will always be jam packed with pretty, presentable drawings and illustrations, cuz you wouldn't want your portfolio to be mostly unfinished sketch works. This makes Calarts sketchbooks a little different from your regular "sketchbook tour" vids, which are obviously done for the sake of presenting, because there is something at stake making those.
That said, I do think Calarts should keep in mine what you said in this video: Sketchbooks are for SKETCHES. The more they lean towards accepting applications with pretty, finished, well illustrated sketchbooks and rejecting those with raw idea drawings, thumbnail sketches, messy doodling pages, they are beating the purpose of having a sketchbook in the first place. So many Calarts applicants suffer from constant anxiety and exhaustion because they get immense stress from making the sketchbooks "perfect." But as you said, in the end, the sketchbooks that seem to be stuck with people the most is the one that has more of messy drawings, sketches that take less than 5 mins, pages that are nearly indistinguishable, etc. I hope Calarts takes this into account and start making changes to their admission process.
Great video!
Calarts sketchbooks r not bad for u, I actually learned sooo much making one.
For instance u would learn:
- Layout
- Sticking to what u have put on ur paper and learn that even if it wasnt “beautiful” u as an artist has the ability to “make it beautiful”
- Graphic design “drawing is not only about drawing, graphic design plays a major role in it”
- also, it teaches u that u can do great art in a sketchbook, u dont need no big canvas, and at the same time, it teaches u to not get too attached to ur “art”, if u r capable to to do great art in a sketchoob and make it work, then u for certain are able to do greater things with the right medium and big canvasses. U shouldnt be limited to a canvas, but u will do great using one.
Excellent video. Thank you.
I’m just getting back into drawing and sketching again after more than 10 years. The trends and attitudes towards sketchbooks in art spaces seems to be totally different than I remember. I would call all these “sketchbooks” on YT art journals or art books vs a sketchbook. My sketchbooks are doodles and freeform ideas. Hardly any color. Not every page is bursting with energy. It does make me feel inadequate that I can’t fill every page with a masterpiece. Sometimes a page is just an abandoned, half assed pose before I start over again on a new page.
Does anyone know what brand those sketchbooks with the flexible covers are?
okay can i just say, i don't even do anything art-related, but this video has helped me so much! i write in my free time, and this really helped me because i get super insecure about drafting and such (that might be dumb, sorry). i have what i call my chaos journal, where i just brain dump any ideas that come to mind and i write out scenes and stuff, then i have my character development and design notebook, and then i have a notebook for drafting and things to improve on, then i have two binders: one for short stories and one for full-length novel development. lastly i have my blog, where i publish all of my completed work and commissions. it's always made me super insecure to see other writers Just Write and to see their drafts be super clean and have mine be full of pen marks and things that need to be changed or edited, or to rewrite scenes 7 times and see others get it right like the first time. this video honestly helped me feel a lot better about the process and all the things we don't really see, so thank you so much!!
That's what I first had when I saw those sketchbook tours. I feared drawing anything randomly into my sketchbook because it could look weird but over time I recognized that those are literal illustrations and in my opinion, they don't belong in a sketchbook. It took some work and time but I finally can comfortably draw into my sketchbook and don't care if the skribbles don't match on the same page
I make (and sell) very nice very expensive watercolour sketchbooks. At some point I thought to myself "I should probably make one for myself and see in depth if I like it and how well it works" (of course I tested the separate elements myself before, and given lots out to my friends for free to get some feedback, but I've never made one for myself to fill). The results? I filled one page and went back to my cheap, easy-going sketchbook. Because if I want to be using expensive watercolour paper, I'd rather make a standalone piece, so I could hang it, gift it, sell it, burn it, anything but make it stay hidden in a sketchbook that takes years to complete. But other people think differently and make beautiful art journals that we all still call sketchbooks. So to each their own, but the irony if my extensive knowledge of sketchbook types, papers, making tools and binding styles despite using cheap spiral bound sketchbooks is not lost on me. They are more interesting to research than to use, to me personally at least.
“Who in their right mind is gonna show you their scraps?”
Me: *has a whole video up going through all of them* 😶
I think it is quite simple, those calart "sketchbooks" are not sketchbooks at all, imo a simple misnomer. They are demonstrations of good if not best work of the artist, fully rendered drawings/paintings.
What you call a working sketchbook is a real sketchbook.
Different functions so a different term would be less confusing.
I think using those cheap paper pads and store brand sketchbooks for scribbles and messy work is a good idea. I had two nice Arteza sketchbooks and I feel like I wasted then with bad doodles, but it's not really a waste if I enjoyed it ig.
do you have an instagram or twitter where you post your art?
This video is awesome, and I completely agree. I love watching calarts sketchbook videos but my own sketchbook looks like a mess and sometimes it can make me feel really bad.
I also wanted to say, in case you haven't heard it in a while: your channel is really high quality, and I sincerely hope you continue making videos. I know having a relatively low sub count might be really demotivating, but I think you'll inevitably amass the subs you deserve if you keep it up!
"this trend might end skewing a lot of people's perspective of what a sketchbook is"
Dude, it already has. You're not the first person to talk about this, either. There have been posts made on Tumblr, one that I remember from like a year or two ago explaining that sketchbooks are supposed to be where one experiments and stuff like that.
Absolutely! Ive been drawing digitally for a long time but just started this sketchbook thing and im feeling like i have a wrong approach to it bc of the videos
Just subscribed. Nice work! 💕
Besides work sketchbooks feels much more intimate. imo they are twice as fun to look at, because you're seeing what's going on inside the artist head. how they pick and choose colors,shadow, composition, how they make their decisions, the struggles,you know, the whole trajectory.
The only thing I can say is: Thank you!
Really, thank you for doing this short video. I have tons of messy sketchbooks with 3 finished pieces at the most on them.
The only way I found I could have fun drawing is by using those legal pads with yellow pages simply because I became afraid of sketchbooks.
Some other videos suggest "not writing on your sketchbook at all" which frustrated me because I want to draw and write down notes about the characters and storylines I'm creating.
Eventually, I realized that most of the sketchbook content that you can find either on RUclips or Instagram is heavily based on having finished pieces so the whole point of sketching and experimenting definitely got lost.
I prefer to look at the messier sketches, that's how you can actually see how much an artist has improved.
I heard saib's Chove Chuva and Song of Storms from Legend of Zelda, I love your taste in music.
After I watched your video, I've started to notice too-perfect sketchbooks. Before that I felt the need to put only pretty drawings in my sketchbook and got upset if drawings turned out to be meh (which happens a lot since I've just started to draw seriously). Thank you ✨
Thanks for sharing!
this video was well needed for the art community here on youtube (: love it
Wow! I really needed to see this video. As an aspiring artist, this really opened my eyes. All those sketchbook tours are so nice and pretty, and I try so hard to make my sketchbook look like them. In that process, I forget the scribbly process, the technique I planned to work on, and the very learning process! Believe it or not, I found this video while watching some Calarts approved sketchbook tours!
This video was something I should have seen a long long long time ago. Ever since I started watching these sketchbook tour videos, I have been so demotivated to experiment and try something new. Thank you so much for this video!!!
I started a social media account for my sketchbook and it ruined the project I was going for (making more quick sketches). It ended up a portfolio book that I post once every few months
I actually sketch whatever in my sketchbooks there is no order I compare them too, l m not a beginner but still i don't have my style yet and I don't have a separate fancy journal its all compiled together and I get what you mean, so chill every artist has a free soul and they understand a free space so leaves no space for disappointment.
Ive waited for this video on YT for so long haha you’re awesome man, you keep your sketchbook real and messy
'Art Journal' seems like a much better name for these books, I personally started calling them 'Art books', because they are NOT sketchbooks at all. Same goes for things being called 'speed paints' ,in yonder old days a speed paint was a painting done in less than a few hours, today its a youtube video sped up of something that could easily taken 70 hours.
Both are entirely different things.
i was just thinking the same thing. Ive been watching these sketchbook tours are they are not sketches LOL
Even your "ugly sketchbooks" look pretty
those sketches 👌
I've been trying to find the work sketchbooks like you show in the video but I honestly cannot find them. I can only find the big expensive ones with hardback covers and super thick marker resistant paper. Where do you pick up your sketchbooks from? If anyone has links to their favorite work sketchbooks I'd greatly appreciate it!
I needed this video 🙏 like I was so stressed seeing all these sketchbooks and I’m like why don’t mine look like that 😭 thanks for this
I find your take on sketchbooks really refreshing and honest. I don't think I've met other creatives with 'pretty' sketchbooks irl. They're there for experimentation and mistakes. Focusing on having a pretty sketchbook seems pretty counterproductive to me...
I have always felt this way! And like a bunch of other ppl in this comment section, it made me feel like less of an artist because I don't have such pretty sketchbooks. I take out my sketchbook when i just wanna DRAW. when I have an idea that I want to try out, or when I just want to set my pencil to the page and see what comes out. I have a very hard time making traditional work polished, so the best it gets for me is just a nice cleaned up sketch. I'm learning to be okay with that, but this video helped me out. Thank you, and I'm glad that you decided to start making youtube videos because of this! :)
Mostly my sketchbook is filled with memes and crazy stuff that idk people will consider good but does it bother me? Not much at all, I am not the only person who draws in there notebook in class( mostly because I rarely fill up my notebook) a sketchbook is where you put whatever is inside, doesn’t matter whether it’s pretty or not, or doesn’t matter at all, sometimes I just look at my old notebooks and looking at the many random stuff I have inside, I like my sketchbook being messy and what people say about your sketchbook doesn’t define you at all, I don’t mean to hate to people who have amazing illustrations on there sketchbook, you are as amazing as all of us. My deepest apologies if anyone got angry of whatever I said, I currently haven’t fix my way of speaking so sorry if it sounds bad or offensive
Also I don’t like debates cause I’ll mostly rant to you, I have a short temper and get angry whether it’s right, wrong or whatnot
Hello! I am a CalArts student and lemme tell you something: I never tried filling a sketchbook before applying. And to be honest, it totally ruined my experience with sketchbooks. Why? Because in order to get accepted you have to fill the sketchbook in the way they "want". And everyone knows how they look like. I got completely burned out after finishing my sketchbook. I never wanted to draw on a sketchbook again after that and I thought it was pointless (bc I kept thinking that sketchbooks need finished drawings or drawings that look like illustration.). I need to go back to the habit of just doodling without finishing anything. I guess this "way" of sketchbooking killed my joy. Anyways congrats on the video! Very nicely done!!!
i have drawings of my classmates assleep, they told me not to take pics of them when they were sleeping, so as a good friend i respect their boundaries and instead of taking pics of them i draw them 😈😈😈
but yeah, my sketchbook is full of junk but it's like a diary
Whats the brand of that cheap sketchbook?
this was another super cool video man! i seriously get it. as an artist, i'm very much guilted into thinking i should BE something that maybe i'm not. there's a lot of competition on youtube and social media to have one style, one type, one.. sometime you know? it makes young artists feel discouraged. there's a need for acceptance and diversity, and for the most part there is. but that's only done because people choose to stand out against the traditional type of art popular on the internet and for the "calarts" aesthetic.
for years i've compared myself to those kind of aesthetics, but i think it's important to see that everyone goes through art in different ways. comparing negatively is probably the worst thing an artist can do, especially when it's comparing to a "calarts" sketchbook which i wouldn't even consider a sketchbook.. it is more like its own piece of work.
this video really resonated with me, because i was planning to get a sketchbook and imitate what i would do if i were to apply to calarts, giving myself a relatively tight schedule to do so. after the fact, i wanted to explain what makes achieving this sort of style with sketchbooks something that maybe shouldn't be achieved with every sketchbook one does, because i've seen the process as strenuous, stressful, and forcing someone to push themselves to a very high standard.
while it's good to push yourself to do better, i feel like that kind of effort that is seen in calarts entries is more of an extremely important assignment or examination than what someone should want to achieve every time they pick up a pencil.
Wow! Awesome video
I don’t know u but your art interests me
you should rename it to expecting INSTANT PERFECTION is BAD for you :P
I don’t watch sketchbook “tours”....I don’t want to see something that people did planning for someone else to see it. It’s like someone writing in a diary, with the idea to leave it around for someone else to read. It’s somehow inauthentic, staged.
Good stuff man...thank you.😉
i started drawing seriously around 2015-2016 and all i saw on yt was these pretty and put together sketchbooks and as an impressionable 10 year old i thought that's how it had to be. i would get so mad at myself for not doing something perfectly or having a drawing turn out bad and i didn't allow myself the space to sketch or be creative.
Most ppl gets dis courage when they see/compare their own work vs the “better artwork”
But for me when i see “better artwork” i get encouraged and say to myself, “ Wow! So pretty one day i could do that to!” And i start practicing on wat i wanna draw or like the pictures i would like to draw like the ones in youtube, i didnt know even before drawing dat thereis some ppl who gets discouraged bcuz ik the amazing artists i see at youtube was at my point in there life too
Your ideas aren't junk. You didn't fill the book with junk. You filled it with YOURSELF. It's not about showing off. It's about art.
very relatable, I have a few sketchbooks. It's fancy, ugly and private forever sketchbooks. They give me freedoms to let my mind wonder around.
Oh my gosh thank you for posting this you said EXACTLY WHAT WAS ON MY MIND looking at videos for Calarts sketchbooks--- it doesn't show both sides of the sketching spectrum at all. Which, makes me think... I don't know the specifics myself, but does Calarts ask SPECIFICALLY for this kind of a sketchbook as their entry ticket? I don't understand why they wouldn't just seek a traditional portfolio instead---- it seems to me that by asking for a 'pretty sketchbook' rather than a functional work sketchbook, they're asking for your processes themselves to always be perfect.
As someone who is trying to get back into art after thinking I wasn't good at it when I was in middle school (I'm 31 now). This makes me feel like my sketches don't need to be pretty and help me to realize that most people aren't drawing beautiful pictures from scratch every time with 1 line stroke. In a way I knew that but the reality of someone who isn't that good at what they aim to do in the first place, its more of a criticizing every little line and I know that's bad but it still happens. I'll spend too much time on detail when the piece is supposed to be practice and I guess that's why I gave up in the first place so long ago and tried to pursue other things but here I am back at it to try again. This time I bought an art tablet and have hours and hours of time to spare thanks to this virus stuff. Everyone's different though but now I am going to switch between basic sketches and trying to learn how to use Ps.
Seriously, more people need to talk about this! I love my expensive sketchbooks as much as everyone, but if I were to just doodle everything in them, they'd run out too quickly and it'd get expensive quickly. Atm my solution is regular printing paper, and staple them in small blocks.