@@parasiticpantheon just a digital download of a hi res scan? I can do that for just a few pounds / dollars. Go to the website link on my channel info and use the contact form. We can sort something out easy peasy
This is such a cool challenge and your execution is so wonderful in all of the drawings, love the way you don’t have to go into full depth to talk about each drawing, visual feelings and visual stories is so cool
I usually dislike more realistic art but yours just feels so alive and unique! Like it was staight out of a picture in the best way possible. Also, could you give me some tips on how to draw anatomy? I don't know why but every time I try it just feels wrong haha
Thank you so much 😀. Hm i think its definitely NOT about learning all the muscles and bones and more about understanding the proportions of the “human mannequin” and drawing it lots, maybe in life drawing. Its just lots and lots of practice. If theres a shortcut, i dont know it…
Now I know why you invited me to see your Sketchbook Tour here... It's much more interesting here than on Instagram and its limitations!! Thank you very much for sharing it Neil and for all the explanations on each page!! 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Lovely stuff, makes me want to pick up a sketchbook that size to try a similar challenge. My current is used for everything from warm ups to hatching, markers, ink, blocks in space. The idea of having one of just “finished” pieces is very compelling
This is literally the best sketchbook tour I’ve seen, even tho I hate it when ppl just talk abt their sketches,I felt like I could listen to u speak abt all ur art and everything man! So much vibes and just WOW !!
I love the flmaboyance, the nonchalant attitude and the delicious playfulness that this sketchbook offers. I have grabbed a sketchbook recently and using it to draw whatever comes to my mind. And the feeling is beyond enjoyable. Thoroughly enjoyed this tour of yours.
This is soo relaxing to watch. I love your art! You're so good at drawing from life. Your drawings of your daughters surely are my favorite. Just pure awesomeness ❤️ Thanks for touring us inside your sketchbook!
Moleskin sketchbooks are REALLY good quality for the price point! Working on filling my own moleskin sketchbook. =) This is video is VERY good and inspirational.
They are good quality… but honestly they used to be better. They downgraded the paper a few years ago but kept the price. Cheeky cheeky. I still use them though obviously
Thanks so much. Theres no good reason other than my camera set up points at the easel but i tend to work in my sketchbook in other places. Like if im in the studio im usually painting. BUT, you arent the first person to say this so I promise theres some on the way. The next few are painting based but stick with me, its coming.
Neil, that is the most interesting sketchbook tour I have watched ( and I have watched a heaps)> So much to think about!!!! Techniques, composition....etc, etc. Your mind Rocks!!!!!! Cheers, Muffy from Australia.
I loved the 3D figurines, they are simple and look easy to draw but it hard to get them positioning in 3D space. I want more practice like that so that you can draw from imagination. Kim Jung Gi did that a lot that most of his stuff is 85% imagination goes straight in with ink, I loved watching his process.
Oh dont be jelly, but thank you. I appreciate it. Ah very little is from pure imagination but quite often i will adapt a reference quite a bit… but i am usually using some kind of reference image
Thank you so much for sharing! May i ask how thick/heavy the paper of you sketchbook is? And about that oilpainting sketchbook, i just started mine. Of course, gessoing the pages twice, but after a week the paint still super wet! I can't continue on the next page yet. I did expect the paint to dry more rapidly because of the paper speeding the drying process, but i doesn't. You mix a medium into your oils for sped up drying? Greetings!
Im not sure. Moleskine doesnt state the thickness of the paper in the book so i dont know. Feels like 160 -200 gsm maybe? I could be way off… I use a little liquin to speed up drying but its also true that the brand of paints you use and temperature of the room will impact drying too… for example i have a few pigments that just take forever to dry
Lovely work! It takes me months and sometimes years to fill a sketchbook, but I wouldn’t trade the time spent drawing. You are so inspiring. Thanks for sharing your work.
Well normally it also takes me months. This was a specific challenge for October. For reference ive drawn maybe one page in my other sketchbook in November. Needed the break! 😅. Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks. Yes one of my favourite too! Ah its easy. All you have to do is practice. The problem is you will never feel good enough. Like I do not feel like i am good yet. I have so much to learn.
6:22 Nuovo Cinema Paradiso by Giuseppe Tornatore, the movie about love for cinema ❤ insane sketchbook! You inspired me to use copics in my sketches too xd
wow I thoroughly enjoyed that, had to pause many times to really appreciate it, especially the amazing life drawings. brilliant creativity. i feel really inspired to try some of these on my sketchbook. btw im totally stealing that angel of bad drawings 😂
This is a fantastic sketchbook! Love the range of the images and subjects, and how you layer everything to build a narrative. And I'm a sucker for good ink work. You kept mentioning that you were getting images for portraits/figures off of a website, but I couldn't make out where you got them from "kayno?" - you say it first at the 2:17 mark with the girl with the flowers on her head. I've heard that word before from other artists, too, and I would really love to find out where I could get better figure references! Thanks in advance.
Hey thanks so much. Im so glad you enjoyed it. Yeah its CaneYo. Its basically an art group that exists inside an interconnected network of telegram chats. One of them is a reference sharing group. Its open to everyone if you can find the link. Try the CaneYo instagram 🙏. Thanks again for watching and leaving a comment. I appreciate it 🙏
❤ I love all the different perspectives and the art style mixes you created. Urban sketching meets character design… very very inspiring my guy! Thank you for sharing. I am an “awe”. ❤
How ican. E costant at mh drowings? Imi. A pajnfull situation with art, i want to drow but fisically can't, i mean im able to but still cant, what should i do?
What a joy watching this sketchbook flip through and in only one month filled it that's amazing . I loved the "collage" way of compositions a lot . Thanks for sharing . Looking forrward to your painting sketchbook .
Oh thanks so much for watching and leaving a comment. Im really glad you liked it! Honestly im not sure how I managed it in a month either…. Oil painting sketchbook was 5 years in the making. Its filmed just need to edit it. Itll be up next Thursday 👀
loved the tour, the diversity of the drawings is just mind blowing… i have a question, what kind of pen/fineliner do you use for pieces like the one at 6:22? what tip size? i just love the hatching and the crispness of the text!
Oh thats my favourite pen. Its a 0.05 staedtler fineliner. I buy them in boxes of ten. I love them but they dont last all that long. Thanks for watching!
Yep. Im not really a watercolour painter to be honest so i dont really know what the “right way” is. I just use a little bit to add colour to ink drawings. Which one looks opaque to you and maybe i can give more info?
@ncunning the nuns showing their feet, maybe its just me who thinks its too opaque cause im still inexperienced with traditional painting, ive just been drawing my whole life
halfway through and wow, the way you compose your drawings is very cool. they all tell a story together and feel so intentional, even if they weren't. great job!
Thanks! I dont think anything was longer than 2 hours. Maybe 3 max. Sometimes i would maybe spend some extra time hatching while watching tv or something. The reason its hard to tell is i would do little bits throughout the day rather than one big session. Thanks for watching!
Maybe. I think now i have less time in life (family commitments etc) I work a LOT faster. Back when i had all day to do something, I would take all day.
That's also my favorite page
We love our nuns
@@ncunning and our nans
how much for a scan of that page?
@@parasiticpantheon just a digital download of a hi res scan? I can do that for just a few pounds / dollars. Go to the website link on my channel info and use the contact form. We can sort something out easy peasy
Perspective in the Nuns one is insanely good !
I strive to get as comfortable with drawing people in perspective like that one day
Practice all things in perspective. If you can draw some boxes in believable perspective then you can draw some nuns
A non-braggy sketchbook tour?? Sign me up, this was great! Actually motivated the dog out of me
Thanks so much. Really glad you enjoyed it
if you like this then id also recomend sketch book tours by Ahmed Aldoori. you might have to go a few years back but theyre simply amazing!
This is such a cool challenge and your execution is so wonderful in all of the drawings, love the way you don’t have to go into full depth to talk about each drawing, visual feelings and visual stories is so cool
Thanks so much, im really glad you enjoyed the video and the drawings!
I usually dislike more realistic art but yours just feels so alive and unique! Like it was staight out of a picture in the best way possible. Also, could you give me some tips on how to draw anatomy? I don't know why but every time I try it just feels wrong haha
Thank you so much 😀. Hm i think its definitely NOT about learning all the muscles and bones and more about understanding the proportions of the “human mannequin” and drawing it lots, maybe in life drawing. Its just lots and lots of practice. If theres a shortcut, i dont know it…
simplify the muscles to primitives, remember how they connect and use references.
Now I know why you invited me to see your Sketchbook Tour here... It's much more interesting here than on Instagram and its limitations!! Thank you very much for sharing it Neil and for all the explanations on each page!!
👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Oh thanks for actually crossing over and watching it Luis. I really appreciate it and glad you enjoyed it!
Elton John Marmite “does he even like Marmite?” really cracked me up 😂 the sketchbookor the way you draw is fantastic!
Thanks so much! And yeah the Elton John Marmite was weird. I still cant work out the connection between them...
Lovely stuff, makes me want to pick up a sketchbook that size to try a similar challenge. My current is used for everything from warm ups to hatching, markers, ink, blocks in space. The idea of having one of just “finished” pieces is very compelling
Go for it! thanks so much for watching
This is literally the best sketchbook tour I’ve seen, even tho I hate it when ppl just talk abt their sketches,I felt like I could listen to u speak abt all ur art and everything man! So much vibes and just WOW !!
Dang. That made me smile. Thanks so much!
Okay this inspired me to draw more, thanks for sharing!
My pleasure 😊. Glad to be part of the inspiration!
I love seeing smaller art content creators that show what they’ve been up to rather than the ones that only make content to generate clicks
Ah thanks. Thats nice to hear. Clicks are good though. PLEASE CLICK
THUS US SO AWESOME I FEEL SO INSPIRED!!
Ah thats so good to hear! Thanks. Show us what you make!
Thanks for sharing. Absolutely love these small stories coming up…
you're an underrated artist. your channel definitely needs more attention.
Thanks, I appreciate that. Ive only been posting on RUclips for a few months so its early days still.... but thank you!
Absolutely stunning, love it.
beautiful drawings, inspiring stuff. Love the little creative personal touches - Shout out to the angel of bad drawings!
thanks so much. And thank you also to the angel 🫡
loved watching this to wind down after a chaotic week, thank you!
Glad you liked it, you are very welcome
so good!!!!
Thank you!
I love the flmaboyance, the nonchalant attitude and the delicious playfulness that this sketchbook offers. I have grabbed a sketchbook recently and using it to draw whatever comes to my mind. And the feeling is beyond enjoyable. Thoroughly enjoyed this tour of yours.
Thanks so much for the nice words. Im so glad you are enjoying your sketchbook. Its great to hear!
Absolutely lovely work - envy!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching
I love your art!!! Appreciate you for sharing. Great inspiration. :))))
Thanks fruitcake. Glad you liked it!
Loved your sketchbook!
Absolutely stealing the angel of bad drawings haha, unreal you did this in a month so inspiring !!
The angel is not mine to steal. She visits everyone in need 🖤
you’re incredible !!! I loved this tour
Too kind. Thank you 🙏
This was an absolute delight to watch and it inspired me a lot! Funnily enough the nuns drawings were my favourite
Ah thanks so much!
"Not that easy"
Shows some of the best art I've seen from a modern artist in a while.
Ha. that is very generous of you to say, thank you.
siiick sketchbook!
thank you!
This is so so cool ✨️ you're so talented
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1:47 Ok fellow people of culture, let's leave this artist a like for his contribution to the arts.
Ha, thank you. Glad to be of service 🫡
This is soo relaxing to watch. I love your art! You're so good at drawing from life. Your drawings of your daughters surely are my favorite. Just pure awesomeness ❤️
Thanks for touring us inside your sketchbook!
Thank you very much!
Moleskin sketchbooks are REALLY good quality for the price point! Working on filling my own moleskin sketchbook. =) This is video is VERY good and inspirational.
They are good quality… but honestly they used to be better. They downgraded the paper a few years ago but kept the price. Cheeky cheeky. I still use them though obviously
Inspiring great work ✨
Fabulous work! Keep up
Thanks buddy. Thanks for watching and for the motivation 🫡
I really enjoyed this it helped give me motivation and get my creativity flowing
Yessss. Go for it! Great to hear and thank you for watching
That was awesome neil. I reckon your style would make a great graphic novel.
Oh thanks. Ive often thought about it... but such a big project! I couldnt decide on the idea... plus painting is my main focus right now.
Sketchbooks are awesome. I love seeing them from many different people.
I agree. Was really happy to share this with all the other great sketchbooks ive seen on YT
This really making me wanna sketch more
YES! Go for it
That was so good and i hope soon I'll come and show my sketches ❤
Do it! Have no fear
amazing
Why there isn’t any timelapse of your sketchbook drawings on your channel???? Just subscribing till you post some. (LOVE the crosshatching pages btw)
Thanks so much. Theres no good reason other than my camera set up points at the easel but i tend to work in my sketchbook in other places. Like if im in the studio im usually painting. BUT, you arent the first person to say this so I promise theres some on the way. The next few are painting based but stick with me, its coming.
I'm in love with this sketchbook
Im so glad you like it. Thanks for watching!
i'm a fan! excited to see the oil painting sketchbook!
Thanks so much. Yes! Its filmed. Just needs editing 😉
i love it so much hope to see more sketchbook tour like that in the future :)
More coming. And painting stuff. Lots of good painting stuff
Such amazing artworks, every page feels so authentic. Thanks so much for this video 🙌
Thanks so much for watching! Im glad you liked it!
6:36 its from Tornatore's film nuovo cinema paradiso. I dont know how others country named the film.
Thats it! Its known as just "Cinema Paradiso" here. Great film!
Neil, that is the most interesting sketchbook tour I have watched ( and I have watched a heaps)> So much to think about!!!! Techniques, composition....etc, etc. Your mind Rocks!!!!!! Cheers, Muffy from Australia.
Thanks so much Muffy from down under. I really appreciate you watching and your nice words. Very very encouraging for me to hear. Thank you!
Nice ❤.
I clicked on this by accident, I'm glad I did!
It wonder what it would be like to be this talented?
one will never feel they have enough talent
I loved the 3D figurines, they are simple and look easy to draw but it hard to get them positioning in 3D space. I want more practice like that so that you can draw from imagination. Kim Jung Gi did that a lot that most of his stuff is 85% imagination goes straight in with ink, I loved watching his process.
Yeah same. The mannequin figures are very very useful
4:17 Free Pal my brother ❤❤❤
🍉 ❤️
how much of if is from imagination? amazing work, im jelly
Oh dont be jelly, but thank you. I appreciate it.
Ah very little is from pure imagination but quite often i will adapt a reference quite a bit… but i am usually using some kind of reference image
The drawing from min 6.30 depicts a scene from the film Cinema Paradiso. An italian film with a sad love story...
It does! Well recognised. One of my favourite films
@@ncunning It s a classic and has a great soundtrack by the great maestro Ennio Moricconne
some interesting tastes
👀
Thank you so much for sharing!
May i ask how thick/heavy the paper of you sketchbook is?
And about that oilpainting sketchbook, i just started mine.
Of course, gessoing the pages twice, but after a week the paint still super wet! I can't continue on the next page yet.
I did expect the paint to dry more rapidly because of the paper speeding the drying process, but i doesn't. You mix a medium into your oils for sped up drying?
Greetings!
Im not sure. Moleskine doesnt state the thickness of the paper in the book so i dont know. Feels like 160 -200 gsm maybe? I could be way off…
I use a little liquin to speed up drying but its also true that the brand of paints you use and temperature of the room will impact drying too… for example i have a few pigments that just take forever to dry
really love the nuns, the shape their cloaks make it's really cool!
Yes my favourite too! Thanks so much.
Lovely work! It takes me months and sometimes years to fill a sketchbook, but I wouldn’t trade the time spent drawing. You are so inspiring. Thanks for sharing your work.
Well normally it also takes me months. This was a specific challenge for October. For reference ive drawn maybe one page in my other sketchbook in November. Needed the break! 😅. Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed it
Amazing work! Really enjoyed watching it. Thanks a lot for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it! thanks for watching
fkng gorgeous
Too kind. Thanks for watching
Awesome, loved the variety and quality of the drawings! Well done!
Thanks so much!
Wow Wow Wow !!!!!!! I wanna be as good as this one day! I Love the Picture with the Nun's !
Thanks. Yes one of my favourite too! Ah its easy. All you have to do is practice. The problem is you will never feel good enough. Like I do not feel like i am good yet. I have so much to learn.
@ncunning this is the artists curse haha 😂💪🏼
also maybe the only way to improve? imagine thinking "ok im good enough now, no need to get better"... I think that would be an error.
Love the artworks in your sketchbook!!! 😍
Thank you. I enjoyed looking back over them for the video!
مذهل حقا👏👏
Thank you 🙏
Great stuff!! Really loved the one with the girl listening to music and the street scene. Nice narrative
Thanks Luke. I also liked that. Well done again on organising the whole challenge. It was a blast.
so beautiful ❤❤❤ new subscriber
Thank you so much. Welcome
😌
6:22 Nuovo Cinema Paradiso by Giuseppe Tornatore, the movie about love for cinema ❤ insane sketchbook! You inspired me to use copics in my sketches too xd
Bingo! Thank you. Im glad to be part of your inspiration 🙏
Fun, beautiful, inspiring, thought provoking, medicinal, ... Loved it. Thank you!! 💥👌👍
So glad you enjoyed it. Medicinal even! Thanks for watching again. See you on the next one 🫡
2:25 I didn’t allow you to draw me on the bottom right 😤
lol
wow I thoroughly enjoyed that, had to pause many times to really appreciate it, especially the amazing life drawings. brilliant creativity. i feel really inspired to try some of these on my sketchbook. btw im totally stealing that angel of bad drawings 😂
thanks. really glad you enjoyed it. More coming!
So beautiful
Too kind 🙏
Impressive, very nice.
thanks!
hahaha nice to see you here Patrick
This is a fantastic sketchbook! Love the range of the images and subjects, and how you layer everything to build a narrative. And I'm a sucker for good ink work. You kept mentioning that you were getting images for portraits/figures off of a website, but I couldn't make out where you got them from "kayno?" - you say it first at the 2:17 mark with the girl with the flowers on her head. I've heard that word before from other artists, too, and I would really love to find out where I could get better figure references! Thanks in advance.
Hey thanks so much. Im so glad you enjoyed it. Yeah its CaneYo. Its basically an art group that exists inside an interconnected network of telegram chats. One of them is a reference sharing group. Its open to everyone if you can find the link. Try the CaneYo instagram 🙏. Thanks again for watching and leaving a comment. I appreciate it 🙏
❤ I love all the different perspectives and the art style mixes you created. Urban sketching meets character design… very very inspiring my guy! Thank you for sharing. I am an “awe”. ❤
Ow thanks. Thats a very nice and encouraging comment to read. Thanks for watching. More coming soon!
How ican. E costant at mh drowings? Imi. A pajnfull situation with art, i want to drow but fisically can't, i mean im able to but still cant, what should i do?
Im not sure. Maybe you should do a course or draw along with a good tutorial book?
CINEMA PARADISO HELL YEAH. It's good advice, but surprisingly tough to follow through with
For sure. Nostalgia is everywhere and more seductive than ever. It may be impossible to resist…
What a joy watching this sketchbook flip through and in only one month filled it that's amazing . I loved the "collage" way of compositions a lot . Thanks for sharing . Looking forrward to your painting sketchbook .
Oh thanks so much for watching and leaving a comment. Im really glad you liked it! Honestly im not sure how I managed it in a month either…. Oil painting sketchbook was 5 years in the making. Its filmed just need to edit it. Itll be up next Thursday 👀
loved the tour, the diversity of the drawings is just mind blowing… i have a question, what kind of pen/fineliner do you use for pieces like the one at 6:22? what tip size? i just love the hatching and the crispness of the text!
Oh thats my favourite pen. Its a 0.05 staedtler fineliner. I buy them in boxes of ten. I love them but they dont last all that long.
Thanks for watching!
OMG ARE YOU WELSSSSSHHH?
Lol. No
Iam the first hahaha You need more subs 🥰
That was pretty fast.... even with more subs you might still be first.
*don't give in to nostalgia*
.....
From the amazing....
*Cinema paradiso* :)
Great sketchbook.
Stay happy everyone:)
Absolutely. One of my favourite films ever.Thanks for watching!
Great stuff! Amazing how complicated the drawings are. You are a very good artist.
You are too kind. Thank you
Cool notebook
Thanks!
hi, what is gms of that paper?
hi, i looked it up for you its apparently 165gsm
@@ncunning thanks
Oh come on! So good❤
Haha. Thanks so much!
are those really watercolor paintings? cause they look too opaque and if so how did you do it with watercolors
Yep. Im not really a watercolour painter to be honest so i dont really know what the “right way” is. I just use a little bit to add colour to ink drawings. Which one looks opaque to you and maybe i can give more info?
@ncunning the nuns showing their feet, maybe its just me who thinks its too opaque cause im still inexperienced with traditional painting, ive just been drawing my whole life
Oh no that is definitely watercolour. To be clear the black of their cloaks is ink, the skin is watercolour.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful works!!
My pleasure!
halfway through and wow, the way you compose your drawings is very cool. they all tell a story together and feel so intentional, even if they weren't. great job!
Perhaps intentional in my subconscious. Thanks so much. I hope you enjoyed the second half too!
@@ncunning I did! :D I feel inspired to continue working on my own sketchbooks.
Do it 🫡🙌
Love your videos ❤
Thank so much! Im so glad you like them.
yes
baby
Oooooh yeah
its like kim jung gi
Oh no. Not even 0.1% like KJG. Even if i drew all day every day, id never get that good
5:13 ma dong seok and his Hello kitty phone case 😭
Ha! Yes! It is. Though i slightly messed up the hello kitty face… annoyingly
this makes me want to draw :) very impressive for only a month- your style and the way you collage is beautiful!!
Thanks so much. I love hearing ive inspired people to draw! Very encouraging for me
This is amazing!
Thanks Eman. Im so glad you enjoyed it!
I´m a simple man, I see feet I click
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beautiful sketchbook Neil each page has a story to tell
Thanks so much Ayoub. Im glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for leaving a comment.
This is good stuff! How long d'you reckon it took you to knock out those tighter compositions? ones w/ multiple figures?
Thanks! I dont think anything was longer than 2 hours. Maybe 3 max. Sometimes i would maybe spend some extra time hatching while watching tv or something. The reason its hard to tell is i would do little bits throughout the day rather than one big session. Thanks for watching!
@@ncunning That's crazy impressive, man. Takes me hours to do half of something like that.
Maybe. I think now i have less time in life (family commitments etc) I work a LOT faster. Back when i had all day to do something, I would take all day.
I think Bro is into Nuns
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Nuns feet you have my attention
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Great sketches! I like how you took inspiration from Kim Jung Gi
always good to learn from the best!
@@ncunning exactly!