#sketchbook Saturday

[lightofunova]

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I never really utilized it but I made Reshi a christmas outfit for an event i ended up not participating in!(I wanted to just no timeee)

The idea was white and red and to be sorta angelic themed! I like the concept more than the final piece more? I feel like I could’ve emulated the flow a bit better but eh

I was gonna have Phillip from my other blog bring Reshi as his plus 1 cus he’s not good with the cold XD but I scrapped the entire idea. Maybe I’ll use this later on? i dunno!

[shrikeseams]

fuck it, sketchbook saturday!

[jenibearx3]

[dyingroses]

Opened up my sketchbook . . . .

[flittermouseart]

Comfort Characters

If you stick around Sketchbook Saturdays long enough, you’ll start to recognize this character. He was one of my very first OCs (original characters), and he likes to wander onto my practice pages. I’ve drawn him so often that he’s fallen into the category of “comfort character.” 

I strongly believe in practicing my drawing skills every single day … but sometimes I want to create without the pressure of being creative, y’know?

Comfort characters are my go-to when I’m not feeling particularly artsy. They’re the characters that I’ve sketched over and over and over. Some of them, like this one, I’ve drawn so much that I only need one active braincell on duty in order to whip out a decent drawing. He seems to jump out of my pencil and onto the page, which is great for days when I’m not up for an artsy challenge.

I think Flann! (from my graphic novels) will eventually fall into the “comfort character” category. I’ve drawn her so many times in so many different poses that I don’t really have to THINK anymore when I draw her. Flann!’s on Active Duty right now — I’m sketching her every day while I map out Volume 3! — so I’ve temporarily banned her from my sketchbook, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see Flynn, Flann!, and James all sneak into my practice pages once we’ve completed their current adventure.

[loremaster-lavellan]

For this Sketchbook Saturday, enjoy a time lapse of this drawing of Llambde Fyr.

It's been a minute since my last Sketchbook Saturday post, and I'm not in the mood to photograph all the little doodles I've done since the last one, and I doubt you all want to scroll through that . . .

[canadianartjunkie]

Sketchbook Saturday - Birds

[dransnake]

Sketchbook Saturday!

Today I'm gonna share some concept sketches for my current screen printing assignment. We're making a tri-tone poster based off of idioms and sayings, and I decided to base mine off of "brain weasels" since I use that all the time hehe

So first I started off practicing drawing weasels, just to get a feel for them. I wanted to draw something scary, but it was rough finding any decent references of them snarling. Weasels in general look really polite, so that was challenge number one. But there were references of stoats and ferrets snarling, so I was able to make do.

Along with these practice drawings, I also made a few thumbnail sketches to go with them! Here is half of the ones I made.

Out of the six thumbnail sketches I made, I chose the bottom right sketch as my final composition. Although I did make some major changes once I got the final version made. I'm going to start printing the posters this week, so hopefully I'll be able to show it off soon! I'm going for an edition of 10, but screen printing is finicky so I might not get that high of a number.

[theartsjunkie]

Sketchbook Saturday - David Habben's "sketchbook so far"

[sweetkissstrawb]

I keep seeing this little abandoned shop on tumblr

[ghoulsandgunsmoke-blog]

Sketchbook tour, part two

Part 2 of my sketchbook ‘Codex Umbra’ Hey there, here’s a short video tour of my sketchbook, Codex Umbra. It’s a place to flesh out, or perhaps skin some ideas. If ya gotta minute literally, check it out! Thanks!

[lightofunova]

Reshi

A sketch i STARTED and then never wanted to go back and finish LOL

I dont hate it but something feels off about it…i dunno! Maybe I’ll get back around to it later but I think the inspo wasn’t there to want to finish it? Still I like the concept of the piece alot, wanna do a day/night theme. Sun/Moon, Light/Dark :)

Theres alot of fun themes to apply to these two that I think is really fun to play around with, the duality is really somethin’

[shrikeseams]

fuckit sketchbook saturday

[jenibearx3]

Some of my fav sketches from the week

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[lukecoalman]

Sketchbook Saturday:

More digital sketches. I was using the iPad app Concepts a lot at this time. It's an infinite canvas app where you can just keep on drawing. I was trying to keep up a daily drawing practice. One of my many attempts to post more drawings. I would usually spend an hour or so sketching hoping to come up with at least a one drawing I thought was okay. Eventually I got a little burned out by it. Mostly I think because I was more focused on making work to post than making art that went anywhere. Started to feel a little hollow and pointless. I now try to draw more to enjoy drawing.

[flittermouseart]

I always feel a little weird when I share pages out of my sketchbooks. Not because I’m embarrassed by my doodles, but because I honestly think they're boring. Most pages look like this one — a lot of floating heads surrounded by a bunch of half-drawn hands, random body pieces, and the occasional eyeball.

To me, “scratch-book” sketches aren’t interesting to look at. When I look at this page, I see mistakes that were never intended to be corrected. The whole point of this page was to warm up my drawing hand before I started inking a “real” piece, so I drew some flowy hair to loosen up my wrist and practiced a few hands (because hands are the devil’s invention and I always need to practice drawing hands). When I’d gotten done “stretching” my drawing muscles, I sketched one of my personal characters in the bottom corner for funsies, then I set this page aside and sat down to do some “real” artwork.

For me, a sketchbook is a playground for random doodles. It didn’t occur to me that anyone might like to see that kind of thing until I had a really great conversation with a young artist who stopped by the bat-booth during craft sale season. She said she she found the idea of being an artist intimidating because nothing she made ever felt good enough to share. Everything she saw from her favourite artists online were carefully curated collections. The “sketchbook tours” she saw posted on Instagram or TikTok were filled with polished portfolio pieces. She mentioned that even the rough outline stages looked “so much better” than her finished piece.

That conversation really stuck with me. As an artsy individual, I love sharing pieces that I’m really proud of. Sketchbook pages like this one never seemed worth sharing because it’s not very pretty, and I’m not particularly proud of it. To me, it’s just doodles, and doodling is such a huge part of my life that it honestly never occurred to me that seeing unfinished sketches could be interesting, or even helpful, to other artists.

After that conversation, I made it a personal goal to share more of my personal sketches and practice pages. They won’t always be good, and I can guarantee they’ll never be “finished,” but I hope everyone will enjoy my silly Sketchbook Saturdays!