I Tried Urban Sketching for 30 days...🖋️| Sketchbook Flipthrough
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- čas přidán 16. 07. 2023
- Join me through this 30-day challenge where I'll share the joys and challenges of urban sketching, opening a window into my artistic process and showcasing the transformative power of daily practice. You'll get an inside look at the cognitive, associative, and autonomous stages of skill acquisition as I learn to observe, compose, and bring scenes to life on paper.
Let me know what you think in the comments down below. Id love to know if youve ever done a challenge like this!
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Good video. As a professional illustrator for over 40 years, I hope I can offer you some simple, practical advice which will help in your progress. Two really simple things to help you sketch more loosely and with greater freedom - hold your pen further ‘up’ (towards the cap end). It’ll feel strange at first, but it gives the nib more ‘uncontrolled’ movement. And try not to ‘lift’ the nib off the paper when you draw different elements of a building - as if you’re drawing with one continuous line. It’ll give your work a nice ‘sketchy’ feel. You’ve certainly got some talent there and you can already see the progress through your sketchbook. I hope you don’t mind my offering you advice. Keep up the good work.👍🏻
I've done a 30 day neurographic challenge that turned into 6 months, now I've just started a 30 day flower challenge and in only 4 days my leaf game has exploded. I think this would work with writing as well
is the 30 day flower challenge something you followed here on youtube?
Loved this video which popped up randomly in my recommended videos. One of the big things to remember about urban sketching is the memories that you create sat there for a few minutes with a sketchbook and pen. It’s not all about the perceived quality of the artwork, it’s more about the experience of being, seeing and doing. Each time you look back through your sketchbooks, you will remember the experience much more than if you had snapped a photograph 🙏
I am a graphic/layout designer and these sketches are BEAUTIFUL!! I really love the style and the sketch from June 16th with the shadowing behind the net (?) got me chills! LOVED IT!
Other sketches got me goosebumps aswell: July 1st, 8th, 10th then the watercolor ones?! Omg all of them!! You made them pop put of the page! Incredible work! You should try 2 page scenery too, if you have the patience and time obviously. I can only encourage everyone to try not just urban sketching but any! It does not matter if it is not like any style already existing because it is your own ❤ this is one of many things my dad taught me who is also an artist ❤
Be proud of your work!! ❤
this is such an absolutely amazing compliment, you have no idea. Thank you so much for looking at my sketches and telling me your favorites. It means the absolute world to me that it brought you joy. I will absolutely be doing 2 page scenaries as i continue this journey. I just finished my first sketchbook ever so my next one might be a little bit bigger!
@@ThatJournalingGuy yes please do! Keep up this beautiful and great work! ♥️
You have a very relaxed, genuine personality, and I really enjoyed watching your progress.
Some of your sketches are exceptional, considering how little experience you have.
Thank you for sharing your journey. 🙏🏻
Thanks so much for sharing the start of your journey in Urban sketching! It was helpful to see your day by day sketches and realize everyone (not just me) has days when a sketch all comes together and other days when you just drop it and move on. I can tell you’re a “life-long learner” and applaud the journey you are on! I’m retired after 37 years of teaching elementary students and still love to learn about the world around me!
I love th fact that the location you set up to do your first public "out in the wilds" urban sketching frames the word "courage" at first sight, while you talking about being nervous as well as later, when you sat down it shows "discipline" and "dedication" in the background while drawing
Not sure if intended, but it just framed all this process a perfect :D
Thank you for sharing the process.. this was inspiring.. I feel more confident now to start the urban sketch journey that I've been putting aside for a long time
As someone who has more bad drawings than good ones, I really appreciate you sharing the drawings that were meh or incomplete and not just the ones that are really good. Love your relaxed personality and I've just subscribed.
Thank you so much for subscribing! I really wanted to be as open about the process as I could. And that meant showing the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Your intro hooked me right away - the humor and your personality!
"tomorrow will be better... tomorrow wasn't better..." 😊 (The next one after that was gorgeous though!)
You are doing pretty well with the perspective, I thought. I admire your extreme bravery in starting with pen first! For watercolor help I would check out Ian Fenelly. For a waterproof ink, try Deatrimentis document Black. Very fountain pen friendly. They have a whole line of waterproof inks in all sorts of colors. You are doing great! Stick with it 😁
I just finished watching your “I Tried Urban Sketching for 30 days”. As a professional artist I commend you on your journey.
I have 2 comments that will, hopefully give you a little confidence.
1. Quit making the comment “I am not an artist.” Baloney! You do have some skill and it’s true that there are rules to drawing. Any attempt at drawing sets it’s own rules. Once you put pen or pencil to paper with the purpose of interpreting what you see, you have succeeded.
You want the building to look perfect? TAKE A PHOTO!
2. If you want the buildings to look grounded and not look like they’re floating in space. Learn basic perspective. Draw what you see-the shadows might not look correct but keep at it.
Thank youuu. I appreciate the feedback. Perspective is definitely something Im practicing a bit more now and will continue to work on.
Absolutely loved your intro 😅😅 (and the rest of the video, but I really enjoyed the beautiful parody of the intro)
IM FREAKING OUT! not going to lie haha. Thank you so much, im glad you enjoyed the video. Also want to say thank you because your videos helped me IMMENSELY during that time and truly inspired me. Your videos must help thousands who decide to try to get into this hobby so, again thank you for the content that you make.
Haha not a worry. I thought when I saw 'we're going to start with shapes' you might have watched something of mine ;)@@ThatJournalingGuy Congrats on your sketchbook, looks great to me, and impressive to pick it up so quickly!
thank you for this video! it is really motivating for a beginner like me because all i can see in the media is the end result without knowing the effort it takes when they're just started.
Great video. your motivation is putting me to shame. Time to step it up for myself. Thanks for sharing.
Ive been trying to get back into drawing and this really helped put some pieces together for me. I have a lot of trouble breaking things down into simpler shapes and watching this it hit me that houses and buildings have shapes that are "easier" to identify and process. I did one sketch already and I look forward to doing more structures, houses, and buildings! Thank you :D
I have absolutely loved watching your journey over on IG, and your art brings me so much joy in my day!
Thank you so much!! Youve been an amazing support during this journey and i cant tell you enough how much i appreciate your messages and everything else youve done!
Oh wow !! That's seriously impressive!!
From one learning addict to another: You are the best! You have inspired me with the benefits of doing a 30 day challenge. The only problem I have with learning acquisition is gear acquisition! Oh, but it is so worth it! I appreciate your ability to keep going into new areas of learning. Your art is fresh. It's awesome.
Thanks TJG. I really enjoyed watching your progress. You improved a lot in just 30 days! Stay on that learning curve.
From an illustrator.
Omg lol. I can relate on So many levels. Well done my friend. You are my new best friend. ❤
Thanks for sharing. Amazing experience. Keep up!
Great job!
I love how you do it everyday and your commitment
Thank you so much!
Loved this!
I love your art style! Thanks for sharing your sketchbook 😊
Thank you so much for watching 😄🙌🏼🙌🏼
Wow!
these are fantastic. Ive only just stumbled across your channel as i would like to get better at urban sketching myself, its nice to see the process from the start rather than "perfect" polished drawings all the time. Good work, now im off to watch more of your vids as journaling is another hobby of mine :)
Awesome, thank you so much!
It's really nice, mate. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for this honest and encouraging overview of your process.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you so much for your comment and for watching!
Your video made my day❤ And seems like i ll watch it again and again. It s so much sincere and encouraged me to start again, coz i was abaout to give up :) Thank you so much.❤
thx for the motivation and the video .... keep going pictures are great !
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! Wishing you the best of luck!
This recommended video is on point! I'm just getting into urban sketching and drawing in general. I bought a sketchbook and everything, I mean business! But I'm still struggling to pick up the pen and drawing. I'm stressed and paralyzed by the fear of failure, so I'm tense throughout the whole time I'm drawing, which was meant to be a fun thing in the first place ... But seeing all your sketches, and realizing I found beauty in absolutely all of them, plus hearing about the 20 hours thing really inspired me. I wanna start the same journey too. Also, truly brave to go outside to live sketch. So motivating! Thanks for sharing
Thank you for watching! I get the fear of failure for sure. It still affects me even now where i will stop a sketch and leave it unfinished because im afraid of "ruining" it. Ive gotten better about getting over that feeling though. The reason I even started sketching in JUST pen is because i CANT go back and "fix" it. It's really helped. Absolutely hope youve begun youre journey and would love to check back in with you after a little while!
i love this video! it was great to see your journey. maybe ill pick up a pen and paper today lol
I hope you picked up a pen and paper after all this time haha. Thank you!
Yo this is very good quality, Thank You Bro!
Glad you liked it! Thank you so much!
Just subscribed…love the honest learning and sharing🫶🙏
Loved that video! Put my motivation back up high… currently in the beginner tryingtosketcheveryday stadium. Thank you so much!
You got this! Wishing you the very best in your sketching journeyyy
Aw man, you make me want to try picking up guitar again. 20 hours seems paltry next to the almost 20 years I’ve spent learning piano (at the parent’s behest) for literally no reason 😅.
Right now I’m improving my knitting skills to make myself a sweater, maybe next I’ll retackle oil painting. Thank you for the confidence boost I needed to get through today and remember that learning is actually fun when not demanded by others
I love this video, this help me a lot.
Love this! I’m up to 15 sketchbooks! We have an urban sketchbook group here. So fun to go out as a group
that's amazing. Would love to have a group that I could meet up with and go out to draw. Unfortunately, the closest one to me is a few hours away. Was thinking of starting my own group though.
@@ThatJournalingGuy check out the urban sketchers group. You have to be 100 miles away from the nearest group to start your own chapter
Thank you!!!! I enjoy the intro to your video. :-)
I'm glad you liked it haha! Thank you for watching!
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching John, i appreciate it a ton!
I like how the word 'courage' was etched in concrete in front of the building!
I really enjoyed your video. The beginning was perfect😂
Seeing a "non-artist" journey is very inspirational. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much for watching! The beginning is honestly how I felt every time I watched an art tutorial XD
16:25 June 15th was my favorite one you made. You did well constructing the scene on this one and really sold the depth! The shadows are the cherry on top.
thank you. I really appreciate the comment. That scene was probably the first time I really tried to incorporate shadows and depth into my sketches so im glad someone appreciate it haha.
This is the first of your videos that I've seen..love your work. Don't know where you live but you are finding some beautiful buildings there ..and making some beautiful sketches. 🤍
Thank you so much! To be fair, alot of those sketches were actually references that I found online haha. I wish i lived in an area that had that much beautiful architecture.
@@ThatJournalingGuy I think you will find, especially if you go outside sketching, that you will start to find something beautiful wherever you go. And also beauty in new things.
this is amazing, i want to create a video like this with our upcoming challenge! your reference photos didnt show up for me by the way :P
Awesome video!!! Keep it up!
Thank you!!! Will do!
Wow, your progress is impressive! Next challenge...take your sketchbook with you wherever you go - coffee shops, bus stops, wherever, and sketch. Well done!
Thats a great idea. Challenge accepted! Thank you so much!
This is so inspiring! I’ve been dabbling in urban sketching for a while, but I have not committed to a challenge like this. (I come up with all kinds of excuses 😅) But I like how you just use reference photos. I’m to try this challenge.
Thank you so much! I would like to say something though. Now that ive gotten a bit farther into my urban sketch journey, i do wish i had gone out more to sketch instead of using references photos. I think i mightve been using references photos as a crutch and going out to sketch felt exponentially more difficult. Id try to find a happy balance between the two.
I take it you never showed the references? I'm assuming they were photographs? I think they all turned out really good in their own way.
haha i unfortunately forgot to upload the reference pictures as well 🥲😅😅😅😅. but i do post the references along with my sketch on my instagram if you ever wanted to see them. I appreciate the compliment, thank you 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
@@ThatJournalingGuy lol, something I would do...
Breaking up is hard to do BUT it is good and beneficial for you!!
haha it has it's benefits sometimes XD. definitely not trying to make a habit out of it though lol
Wow! You have incredible talent
Thank you so much 😀
Bryant, me gusto mucho tu video de Urban sketching asi que estoy repitiendo tu sistema y he progresado un montón, por ahora los treinta seran de vista frontal y despues comenzare con mas prespectiva. Chevere tu tatoo de Colombia!🌎
Gracias Fernando! aprecio mucho tu comentario. Me encantaria ver tu progreso en estos 30 dias si te gustaria compartilo con migo de alguna manera. te deseo la mejor suerte en tu nuevo proyecto! y gracias! haha fue mi primer tatuaje!
You need to think a little bit differently about mistakes and what they mean. Most artists' styles are not defined by their perfection. They are defined by their mistakes. Your mistakes add charm to your work. They give you a sense of your own artistic identity. There is a certain kind of clumsiness inherent in being a beginner that is something to be overcome, for sure, and I would say you are well on your way to doing that. But some of that will turn into your own unique thing, and it's desirable. (Can you tell I'm an art teacher?😂)
I am now trying to learn urban sketching . I paint but don't draw. Your progress is impressive. Like you, I am such a tough critic of my own stuff, even whenI know I am inthe very beginning stages of learning a new skill. This video has inspired me to keep trying. I think the 30 days self hallenge is a great idea.
You can do it! 30 days will fly by before you know it and the progress you can make in that time is pretty amazing. Wishing you the best. Let me know how it goes!
@@ThatJournalingGuy thank you. I will start October 1st. I need to finish a couple of current projects before I start.
Thanks for sharing! The reference photos did not show in the video.
Sorry about that. I actually forgot to upload them while editing the video so that's completely my fault haha. Ill make sure to add them when I do an updated version of this video!
I LOVE your first urban sketch! Your bldg had personality but it looked like the real building. I don’t really like buildings that look like architectural drawings.
0:51 was his first sketch 😉😂😂😂
Beautiful work and amazing progress! I am also starting on the urban sketching endeavor and was wondering: how do you find your reference images? What type of keywords do you search for? When I look for "japanese ramen shop" I never get anything close to your cute little houses...
that's a great question. I have a pinterest board with a bunch of reference pictures that I use. I typed things in like "interesting architecture" and "Urban sketch references" and just plain "architecture". The neat thing about pinterest is that when you click on a photo you like, it gives you a bunch of similar photos as recommendations and that leads you down a pretty good rabit hole full of cool buildings to draw.
LOL I love your intro.
hahaha thank you XD
Good video, extremely underrated
Appreciate it 🥹🥹. Thank you 🙌🏼
@@ThatJournalingGuy np! :>
Renaissance man
i think they are very good sketches.
i appreciate that so much! Thank you!
What fountain pen do you use?
Damn - any more breakups and you’ll be good at everything 🙈
Perfect intro!
What tracking app was that at the end?
I used Timeular to track my time
superbe. j'ai fait le même dessin à la 23'10" je serai ravi de vous l'envoyer
i would love to see it!
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It appears the first skill for you to learn is how not to break up with your partners! LOL/SORRY - SERIOUS! OKAY - OKAY! That was bad. I'm going to send myself to my room (to sketch). Great idea to increase your knowledge base when coping... I'm coping with the recovery from 16 hand operations and the arthritis is not funny either. I chose to give a re-birth to an old hobby/talent I've neglected for over 40 years! Drawing. I was good. Now I'm a beginner again re-learning how to draw BUT loosely this time. Before it was DRAW EVERYTHING and IN DETAIL!!! Now it's going to be - leave almost everything out of the image. "Be sloppy". It's great that I can hold the pen lose in my hand and let IT take me where it wants to go. LOL Okay, I'm truly enjoying this new art skill I'm developing, and it's wallet friendly too. Loose Sketching is my new format. Maybe a touch of watercolor down the road... Oh and when you're 71 yrs old and high on medical marijuana one shouldn't comment on CZcams unless you're in it for the long haul. SORRY. Great videos. I Subbed and Liked. No friends to Share with LOL. THX
Yes more urban sketchers around my age that aren’t retired 😅 I always want to go to meetups to get more feedback/inspiration but they are often when I’m at work 🥲
Same here! Im in a place where there doesnt seem to be meet ups of any kind. The closest urban sketch group is about 2 hours away from me. Im thinking of starting an urban sketchers regional chapter near me!