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  • čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
  • Something a little bit different today! Take a look through this sketchbook from winter 2021 and listen to me talk about all things sketchbookery. Skip to 2.15 to see inside.
    Please excuse the Magpies chattering away in the background, they dearly wanted to contribute.
    Sketchbook: Hardback Art Creation Sketchbook 12x12cm
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Komentáře • 39

  • @joywhitley3141
    @joywhitley3141 Před 8 měsíci +4

    Excellent! Thanks for sharing.❤

  • @yeyezen
    @yeyezen Před 2 lety +27

    I like how you use it for visual notes or as a diary because seeing other people's sketchbook has made me very picky abut what i put in mine, almost as if everything in the sketchbook had to be very polished and it looses it's purpose. Great video! 🌸

    • @valerianillustration
      @valerianillustration  Před 2 lety +3

      Thank you! That’s precisely it, it looses its experimental purpose if it’s all perfect. Sometimes I scribble on pages just to make sure it doesn’t become too neat!

  • @DesignDrawDo
    @DesignDrawDo Před 2 lety +4

    Recently I also did a sketchbook tour on my channel and I talk about this exact thing - that you can use your sketchbook for everything. It was so nice to see someone else writing stuff in your sketchbook and just doing rough stuff! Would love to see more tours!

    • @valerianillustration
      @valerianillustration  Před 2 lety +1

      Thank you! I've never found the dear diary style worked for me but small notes and snippets of life are so manageable and natural to add to sketches :)

  • @sararamer-dean7846
    @sararamer-dean7846 Před 11 měsíci +1

    I make sketchbooks with all different papers for pencil, pens, pastels, and watercolour. I really like this, and making them different sizes too! I use them to keep notes about bigger artwork and the paints that I have used, as well as quick sketches and then more finished pieces. You can try painting a cheap paper like the Art Creations sketchbook with watercolour ground and then after it dries....paint away. I have just done that in mine.

    • @EL-js5ik
      @EL-js5ik Před 7 měsíci +1

      Thank you I'll give that a go! I'm doing lots of experiments with materials at the moment so it's perfect timing.

  • @majesea
    @majesea Před 2 lety +6

    I love that you keep everything in one notebook…so smart

  • @Janartable
    @Janartable Před 9 měsíci +1

    I have one of those journals. I haven’t quite known what to do with the size. Even though I love it. This is just the inspiration I need. I am a new subscriber and am excited to have found your channel. I love sketchbook tours, reviews of art books and materials, I especially love watercolor and gouache with texture from pencils and pastels etc. I love to see tutorials of those, and love to see collections. After years of pigeonholing each art journal to have a theme or type of art, I too have learned to do it loosely, as my mood denotes. I’ll go from drawing to painting with watercolors, to gouache, to colored pencils. I used to think I had to have a journal for each and practice and mark making should be done on separate paper. Not any more. It’s too much stuff all over the place . Look at this lovely collection you have. I am already a big fan, two videos in! :):)

  • @karenturner-cf7vq
    @karenturner-cf7vq Před rokem +1

    I have a sketch book, and it's nice to see other people's sketch books to get ideas and inspiration. Your book is varied, throughout its pages, which has given me some thought for mine. Thankyou

  • @Zyx-h1s
    @Zyx-h1s Před rokem +1

    Lovely. The mug watercolor is beautiful!

  • @jackshields8797
    @jackshields8797 Před 3 lety +9

    love your sketchbook. i also use a sketchbook, sometimes as a journal, sometimes as an art book, painting in watercolor or gouache.
    its very relaxing and im not worried with making every painting perfect. thankyou for sharing.

    • @valerianillustration
      @valerianillustration  Před 3 lety +1

      Thank you for this comment Jack, I always like to hear about other artists' sketching habits. i completely agree that it's more relaxing when perfection is off the board.

  • @maribelru2011
    @maribelru2011 Před rokem

    The bird page was awesome

  • @JulieToye-gy6ij
    @JulieToye-gy6ij Před 4 měsíci

    💖

  • @eileenvalachovic9435
    @eileenvalachovic9435 Před 3 lety +1

    Loved your sketchbook.

  • @madgart
    @madgart Před 3 lety +2

    So pretty! Love your sketchbook. New friend here.

  • @joywhitley3141
    @joywhitley3141 Před rokem

    Love your style. I have a lined diary where I make lists and plan my gardens and meals but I contain my finished work in my Global Travelogue sketchbooks.

  • @Barbara4ox
    @Barbara4ox Před 3 měsíci

    😍

  • @shirleyhiggins3395
    @shirleyhiggins3395 Před 2 lety

    I have just come across your channel and enjoyed your sketchbook tour and hope to see more of them 😁.
    I have been keeping a sketchbook for about 3.5 years now. I use it as more of a visual diary where I added text about what happened that day. I try and do a page a day and have found that by sticking a sticky note on each page I can jot down things that have happened to write up later when the sketch is finished, or at a later date if I get behind..also as a way to improve my handwriting! I also tape in my calendar and to do list at the back so it's all in one book 🙂. My sketches tend to vary from real life sketches of something/some event in my day, from my photos if I don't have time to sketch in situ, from inspiring photos or from inspiring pictures or tutorials online, or just experiments, nothing is taboo. I also try new styles and materials to mix it up. I love to go back through my journals, I am currently on #24, and see my progress and read what happened that day. I use various journals and sketchbooks but have just recently returned to the moleskine watercolour books, which last me for two months each one. ❤️

    • @valerianillustration
      @valerianillustration  Před 2 lety +1

      Shirley thank you so much for giving me a glimpse into your sketching habits. I love the idea of having a calendar in the back of your journal, even something small that records the months that it spans. You must have growing shelves too! I wish mine were regimented enough to line up nicely but I'm always tempted by unusual shapes and sizes. :)

  • @Mi_Ni_sketch
    @Mi_Ni_sketch Před 3 lety

    Love your work

    • @valerianillustration
      @valerianillustration  Před 3 lety +1

      Thank you! I very much enjoyed making that little pencil animation and would like to experiment more with them :)

  • @sutasuniverse
    @sutasuniverse Před 2 lety

    Love your sketchbook. I'm also interested in buying some art creations sketchbooks.

  • @purplegemcrazyroyal5247

    More sketchbooks please! 😉 💜

  • @AgyWilson
    @AgyWilson Před rokem

    I had a hard time hearing your audio, but I will subscribe anyhow...

  • @anitakushwaha2430
    @anitakushwaha2430 Před 3 lety +3

    Can you help me how to draw the basics of face actually am a beginners 😅
    And also your arts are so calming

    • @valerianillustration
      @valerianillustration  Před 3 lety

      Hi Anita, I'm so pleased to hear that you find the videos calming, I will definitely consider doing one about portraiture but in the meantime you can have a look at my blog on drawing the basics of the face using anatomy here: www.valerian.co.uk/blog/index.php?id=3 :)

    • @anitakushwaha2430
      @anitakushwaha2430 Před 3 lety

      @@valerianillustration thankyou for being so nice ❣️

  • @Skinnychelle48
    @Skinnychelle48 Před rokem +1

    Pretty! What brand of watercolor did u use?

  • @lefthandstory1280
    @lefthandstory1280 Před 2 lety

    Beautiful friend,keep going up😃✌️awesome😃.

  • @mridulascreatives
    @mridulascreatives Před 2 lety

    Beautiful artwork❤ new subscriber💕

  • @Skinnychelle48
    @Skinnychelle48 Před rokem

    What pen do u use? Really nice work!

  • @kram9850
    @kram9850 Před rokem

    this sketchbook is so inconsistant, sometimes you get a good one with minimal bleed and able to do double page watercolour and then youll get one which will bleed even the lighest colour its weird the smaller one dont bleed as much but the a4 one is a joke compared to paper thickness of the small a6 one

    • @EL-js5ik
      @EL-js5ik Před 7 měsíci

      This is really interesting and good to know!

  • @impish22
    @impish22 Před 3 lety +1

    How do you attach the "postcard" (I think that's what it is) to the front of your sketchbook?

    • @valerianillustration
      @valerianillustration  Před 3 lety

      Yes it is a postcard, I have found that superglue is the best way to attach them and other things to the front. Sometimes I also use stamps or labels from bottles!