Alright you lot, welcome back, hows everyone doing.
For today's sketchbook page I decided to take a look at insects, study their forms
and colours.
I feel like insects are quite overlooked in like go-to art practices.
Animals and flowers are quite common and we can all see how looking at them and learning
about them, how to draw them can broaden your art skills and knowledge in a way that could
always come in handy.
Flowers are great for colours and natural forms, they're so diverse in their shapes,
there's so much you can learn from studying them, so much that you can add to your inspiration
stores to add flare to your next drawing either with a literal flower or just your use of
colour and shape.
And it's the same thing with insects.
They are so diverse in every single way, it's like a whole new world of possibilities in
structure and colour.
When you start taking a closer look at them its really intriguing and inspiring.
I'm gonna have to get a book of insects soon cos they really are just an unlimited
source of ideas, really just captivating and unique.
So to get the colours across for this one, I decided to take a chance and use my copic
markers, I don't use them very often and I have a set of only about 20 colours so my
skills in really delivering the essence of what was drawing may have been a bit limited.
But I felt like markers would be the best way to get across that iridescence and sometimes
translucent look of the body of an insect.
And it actually worked out pretty well.
My marker technique obviously could do with some work but once I added the outlines it
really pulled everything together and had just the vibrant effect I was hoping for.
For whatever reason, for the first couple of drawings I re-outlined them over the original
pencil drawing with pencil again and then went over that with pen.
I don't know why I didn't go straight over it with pen but eventually I clicked
on and stopped with the extra pencil step.
So yeah, markers are another thing I'll just have to add to my list of things to work
on, this sketchbook series has really given me so much to be getting on with.
It's like a snowball effect.
I had really hit a wall with my art before I started this and now there's just this
growing momentum to create more and more and try even more things.
A lot of people have been commenting recently about how close we are to the end now.
I personally have mixed feeling about it.
Part of me is really happy that I've actually managed to commit to it and get through it,
I've been drawing and filming and editing more than I ever have before and it's just
been a great way to prove to myself that I actually can do it if I set my mind to it.
I'll kind of be relieved when it's over cos it means I can sort of get back into a
normal routine that isn't just about these videos, I can find time to work on bigger
pieces, work on some different video ideas.
I'm also kind of dreading it because, it's just gone really well and I don't want to
fall back into my old ways.
And I don't really know what I'm gonna do, like what my next step is, to keep the
momentum up.
I'm sure at some point I'll do something like another 30 ways to fill a sketchbook,
but not for a while I don't think.
So yeah, mixed feelings, but generally I'm feeling good about it, kind of ready to keep
moving forward.
I'm curious to know what kind of content you guys would be interested in seeing after
this.
Obviously I'll be doing speed-paintings and things but yeah…
I dunno.
Any suggestions really.
The butterfly took a little while, trying to get the details of the wings right.
I expected the butterfly to be my favourite, cos of the colours and just you know cos butterflies
are always so beautiful, but I actually think the first one was my favourite, the wasp kind
of one.
I just think it looks quite striking.
The last couple of drawings were quite quick, I think I was getting into the swing of things
by that point and the both had pretty simple designs.
And I've pretty much run out of things to talk about so I'll leave you to enjoy the
rest of the video, thank you all so much for watching, and I'll see you in the next one.
Bye!
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