#sketchbooki

[parissfrogg]

The aliens of hermitcraft!!

[avianii]

ok procrastinating rn

do you guys like my rendered sketches or the full illustrations more?

[fabledivine]

various clares (+ 1 vaguely-shaped megan) for @riseinviolence's last life au :3

[sourkitsch]

Keter (Torah Crowns) 1945 – Hyman Bloom

[bluenightcomedies]

uuuugh i keep procrastinating cuz i wanna make new refs n' arts n' all for us all but art slow so fuggit placeholder pinned abt the system better pinned with comm details, other accs, etc later :3 will reopen for commissions once arty verifies me! as a whole we're legally deaf and disabled! we can all draw but have diff styles/preferences :3 body is 30 (eugh i don't like admitting that) so am adult BUT we don't wanna be involved in nsfw art so pls respect that⭐ We can't get a formal diagnosis due to various real life issues, so we're not going to claim any particular diagnosis, but we can't exactly ignore the symptoms and stay masked forever. We're going to stay out of syscourse as much as possible, of course. 🌙 each alter has an assigned emoji so ppl can tell us apart easier if needed, use em as our tags too (when we remember) note- using they/them for any of us fine too!⭐

(doesn't include alters that rarely or never front) ⭐star emoji = Blue! she/her pls~ guess i'm the honorary host cuz i front most. uhhh... nothing rly too fancy i can say abt myself, i'm p affectionate and love y2k art and hanging out, i try to be as nice as i can >w< my art's usually sketchbooky, with thin lines and soft colors/shading!

💠this blue gem/flower emoji is Azure! she/her, she's kinda new to the system. looks n' acts a lot like me but uh... more childish i guess? very silly, very 'cringe culture is dead'. loves to rp, say silly things, n' cling to people. hyperfixates on Dot Hack (RIP) her art looks like mspaint x3 🌙 (Writing for myself since I'm available.) The name's Lune, hence moon emoji, and I use she/her pronouns as well. Formerly "Starry" but people kept confusing me with Blue due to her star symbolism. Used to be the designated mask, I'm glad I don't have to do that anymore... Sometimes I re-mask out of habit so if something sounds like me but wasn't marked as an alter, it probably is me. I have a flat tone and chronic paranoid anxiety so uh... Let me know if I come across as rude, I usually don't mean to. I enjoy doing research and organizing information, so I'm often the one to fact-check things or find guides and how-to's for the system. My art's very bold and colorful, and friends describe it as 'angular'. Clashes with my personality, huh? 🗝️key emoji = Sylverwynd! he uses he/him! he's super laid back and chill, i've never seen him upset or anything, but he's rly long-winded talks... kinda poet-y? he loves reading and talking abt lore and myths so he'll pop in if ur talking abt something he likes or if he has trivia 2 share! fave genres r horror n' fantasy he's still experimenting w/ style but likes drawing rly soft

❌cross emoji= Laceburner! it/its or they/them pronouns! tbh i'm not used to it/its pronouns but Lace wanted em; it's very uh... emotionally empty i guess? aroace, agender, can't socialize or empathize v well. it usually fronts when the rest of us are tired or in pain cuz it just ignores all that. likes 2000's scenemo aesthetics though which is surprising but ye idk how to describe its style, but it's trying to mimic emo art n' likes bright colored lines with dark bg/colors 🗡️the dagger is Kal! he/him pronouns, he gets angry and stressed abt things really easy but he gets too hostile abt it so he tries to not front too much; need to find him a way to de-stress n' chill out... when he's not mad at smth he's a good sympathetic listener imo, still swears and talks all rough tho hasn't drawn much yet but does rly harsh lines and fast/messy sketches when he does (and gets riled up by mistakes =w=;)

❤️heart is Weiss! genderfluid, goes by any pronouns, usually uses whatever they like at the time x3 has a hard time fronting but tries to. flirty, loves dumb jokes, overly confident... (we worry they'd get us in trouble sometimes cuz the shit they want to say) loves demon and monster-related stuff! still experimental style but uses bold colors and thick rough lines a lot, may get suggestive (forbidden from outright nsfw, don't ask >:c) btw ur always welcome to direct asks @ someone specific >w< we just might take a while to respond

[kokidee]

ill post the draw that was supposed to be posted yesterday like a liiitle later :3 but this weeks sketchbookies :3

first artemis is normal her... second artemis is a supr kyute design my bestie did of her during arfight :3 ill post it belowww :3

tried to wm it but if its hard to see its by merioux !! :3

[threegoblinart]

do you think you would sell your Noceda sibling art? 👀 just asking. For a friend. 😃

Maybe, it's a pretty sketchbooky-sketch of a painting. But there has been another request to do it up properly for prints, so maybe?

[two-cue]

SKETCHBOOK

I saw a cool notebook with eyes on it but I don't use notebooks. So I decided to decorate my sketchbook with eyes X'D 

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[cathrynworrell]

How to use that sketchbook you hate

One thing that’s stayed consistent about my sketchbook habit over the years it’s how it keeps changing and evolving!

How my sketchbook habit started

About 10 years ago I had a daily sketchbook habit. I would draw something (anything) every day and often share it somewhere online - either on social media or my blog (or both). I didn’t really care about the outcome. The important thing was that I was drawing, enjoying the almost meditative process and feeling happy with the wobbly lines on the page.

After a few years, that daily habit waned a bit. Not completely, but it faded into the background as I started to spend what creative energy I had on designing and making things for my online shop and doing the occasional illustration for clients.

Feeling pressure to create

A few years ago I had some ideas about things I wanted to explore in my work so I decided to play more in my sketchbook. That's how my landscape prints were born. But even as I was playing, I was sharing everything online and wondering what I could do with the finished paintings.

It never felt completely free. There was always an awareness that someone was ‘watching’ or would see what I’d created. And a thought in the back of my mind about how to sell what I made. All of that meant that I shared some drawings I wasn’t totally happy with and felt a little bit stifled sometimes because I was aware that I would be sharing what I had created with other people.

Since then my sketchbook habit almost (but not entirely) fizzled out. It felt like there was pressure around it. that what I drew needed to be of a certain standard or be part of a process of designing a new card or print. And that pressure meant I almost stopped drawing and painting, at least drawing and painting just for fun.

4 new sketchbooks

A couple of months ago, I decided I wanted to build up a regular sketchbook practice again and felt quite excited about it, so I treated myself to some new sketchbooks. I had plans which resulted in me buying 4 sketchbooks - 2 medium-sized sketchbooks and 2 mini (very portable) sketchbooks.

So I had 4 sketchbooks - one for painting, one for drawing or mixed media, and 2 corresponding mini sketchbooks.

I’m happy to say, this is not a story where I explain how I bought the sketchbooks and failed to use them. Something else happened. I started using all 4 sketchbooks, each in slightly different ways and I love them all.

Fear of the sketchbook page

But there was one week where I was finding it really difficult to allow myself to sit down and make marks on the page. Fear had crept in (again). That niggling feeling of what I created needing to be perfect or sellable.

I wanted to draw or paint but I was nervous in case something went 'wrong' and even started to feel a bit anxious at the thought of sitting down to draw. This goes against the whole reason I started drawing regularly in the first place - to enjoy the process rather than worry about the outcome.

Over the course of a few days, I made a drawing and spent ages trying to get the proportions just right, sketching it all out very carefully in pencil before slowly tracing over the lines in ink. This helped me feel more in control of the outcome so it wouldn't 'go wrong' but the end result was a drawing that looked really stiff and a kind of boring.

I sat with this anxious feeling for a while longer and sank into watching videos of other artists creating freely, embracing the messy, wonkiness in their work. And then had an idea.

Creating a messy, playfully sketchbook

I was worried about making a bad drawing or painting or somehow spoiling my lovely sketchbooks. But I had another sketchbook I'd only ever painted in once and didn't enjoy using it much. So I thought I could use that (5th) sketchbook to make messy marks on the page. I'd use whatever paints were still on my palette and might otherwise go to waste.

So, grabbing a big brush, I started painting big yellow circles (a shape that, interestingly, keeps cropping up). On another page, I layered different colours on top of one another just to see what would happen. It didn't matter because no one needed to see this. And, actually, I could tell myself I was doing a good thing by using the gouache that would have otherwise sat dried on my palette before being scraped away to make room for more blobs of paint.

This (slightly bigger) sketchbook that I didn't really like was getting a new lease of life and I was splashing paint around. Nothing I've painted will become anything else and most of the pages probably won't even be seen by very many people, but it feels like a really good space to relax and explore.

Rediscovering the joy in creativity

And the best part is, that this more relaxed way of creating has spread across to my regular sketchbook practice now. I'm making paintings and drawings of whatever I feel like making.

Sometimes I work slowly over a number of days to allow layers of paint to dry. Sometimes, I use watercolours and see what textures I can encourage on the page. Sometimes I intentionally choose a colour I don’t like just so that it gets used (often to discover that I do like it after all).

Creating in private

Having a handful of sketchbooks means that I can move between them, leaving paint to dry for as long as necessary while I doodle something else in another sketchbook. And I've not shared much of this stuff online (apart from with my Patrons, who have had a peep at a couple of things). Maybe I will at some point but I think I'll wait a while because the feedback (or lack of it) might influence what I do next. Right now I'm playing with no pressure. You might say, I’ve come full circle, thanks to that sketchbook I didn’t like.

I still have ideas for new products and how I'd like my business to grow but I don't think those two sides of my creativity are mutually exclusive. In fact, I think it's likely that they will feed one another, which seems so obvious now I’m writing it down. I'm curious to see what happens anyway.

Do you have a sketchbook habit? Has it changed or does it feed into other areas of your work?

[frogsandfries]

We got paper on the way!! We got ink--and the printer--and tons of mulberry paper, somewhere, for making book cloth out of not-bookcloth.

Then I ordered the book cloth--hell yeah! And because this is a book for reading, not just a lil sketchbookie.........I bought binding tape.............I still don't think I'm going to purchase proper davey board >.>

I even bought a roll of ribbon just for this project, for a fancy bookmark! I have silver thread, I have any cardstock I might need. I'm getting the covers figured out.

I think all that's left is figuring out my end pages. I only have four spreads to work with for end pages and I'm most likely going to use the Avendell art. I love the idea of the last set of end pages being Draco loving his daughter. And the back cover of the second volume has to be what looks like a yearbook photo.

I'm lowkey suddenly kinda obsessed with DraMione right now, so that's going to look weird in the future to whoever gets their hands on my bookshelves. Oooh, speaking of bookshelves, I don't presently own any. I let the ex have the shitty five-dollar ones we bought. They were too flimsy to move and I deserve better.

I'm just going to do a really easy typeset for Uncoffined. It's got me feeling very Libraries of Yore where we have preserved, extant texts referring to texts that were lost. I can't lose the texts, if I can help it.

I wonder if there are other fucked up ships I can get into............. I'm not really a die-hard-to-the-core fan of anything else........I don't really read much these days; it turns out you can train the dyslexia out of your brain, but if you don't keep that part of your brain active, it, like everything else in your body, will atrophy. So reading is really hard for me, especially if I'm trying to enjoy it, not just wring out the information.

[bystphie]

Feelin sketchbooky again. How many of you guys do plein air? I want to give it a shot https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpxy3K_oJ93/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[joshuataylorearley]

Children of Leto Sketchbook

is now available on Bandcamp.

[foqiazafar]

Orange slice sketch

[lopesdafonseca]

Something in between, something borrowed #lopes_da_fonseca#abstract#portugal#art#sketch#digitalart#sketchbooki#beautiful#draw#mydraw#dessin#ilustracion#painting#artoftheday#dibujo#artist#artistoninstagram#digitaldrawing#digitalart#illustration#digitalpaiting#artsgram#illustrationartists #Contemporary#contemporaryart#contemporary#fineart#conceptualartwork#conceptualartists Serie9_Daily portraits and emotions_2018 https://www.instagram.com/p/BpuDRQJF_Jj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=qirmzigo5o7u

[arieefineart]

~Inktober doodles - Week 2

[uglyfruit]

inktober days 26-31