How to Choose Your Sketchbook (A Review of Stillman & Birn Sketchbooks). Cesar Santos vlog 048
Vložit
- čas přidán 16. 07. 2024
- The sketchbook company Stillman & Birn offered me to test out some of their sketchbooks. I was impressed by their quality and decided to do a review of the sketchbooks for you. I did a painting on my favorite one, here is the process.
Instructional Videos: cesarsantos.com/
Stillman & Birn Sketchbooks Reviewed in the vlog:
Beta Series: amzn.to/2KxAoan
Alpha Series: amzn.to/2FEyjph
Nova Series: amzn.to/2FFwOaf
Nova Series: amzn.to/2riqX5E
Gamma Series: amzn.to/2rj1idO
Delta Series: amzn.to/2ri64Z4
Epsilon Series: amzn.to/2IbaLxr
and you can find more series and style on: goo.gl/PnKRF7
Follow me:
on Instagram - / santocesart
on Twitter - / santocesart
on Facebook - profile.php?...
Check out my art - www.santocesar.com/
Experience how I paint the human figure. I explain every thought of the process, and you will see me apply every mark on the canvas in my latest video:
streamlineartvideo.com/collec...
To see me in action painting a portrait of my wife from start to finish, while sharing my thought process in almost 20 hrs of instruction, click the link below:
goo.gl/8QeaXW
streamlineartvideo.com/cesar-s...
Witness my whole process of drawing the figure, from the construct stage to the final layers of rendering. You will hear my every thought and see every mark of charcoal on the paper.
streamlineartvideo.com/cesar-s...
Thickened Linseed Oil W&N: goo.gl/pQM1Ub
Fixative: goo.gl/46LePq
PanPastel Assorted knives with soft covers: goo.gl/w3vUG3
PanPastel Drawing Set: goo.gl/5GKAMK
Black Mirror: goo.gl/7oCYBi
Carbon Pencil: goo.gl/p7qB2n
The Palette:
Titanium White (Winsor and Newton): goo.gl/oGV5g1
Titanium White Griffin Alkyd (Winsor and Newton): goo.gl/Hfdqun
Light Red (Winsor and Newton): goo.gl/FgcDM8
Yellow Ochre Pale (Winsor and Newton): goo.gl/ZZXkm1
Raw Umber (Winsor and Newton): goo.gl/KrFyUP
Cadmium Red (Winsor and Newton): goo.gl/qpK8uC
Ultramarine Blue (Old Holland): goo.gl/9KfQPb
Terre Verte (Winsor and Newton): goo.gl/Gn8YPh
Mars Brown (Old Holland): goo.gl/Zmfocr
Indian Red (Winsor and Newton): goo.gl/j9TnjT
Ivory Black (Winsor and Newton): goo.gl/KGcv58
Video gear, lighting and other useful links:
Camera: goo.gl/8wut2N
Canon lens: goo.gl/rVZQx1
Sigma lens for Canon: goo.gl/6iQ6CB
Canon Zoom Lens: goo.gl/uGWE7M
Mic: goo.gl/QEp4ya
Tripod: goo.gl/LbyX7u
JOBI gorilla pod: goo.gl/ULcRFm
Lights: goo.gl/rRsqGR
Bulbs: goo.gl/A4d95P
Disclaimer: some of the links above are affiliate links.
Music Intro by Punk Rock Opera
Music "Traveller in Time" by Thanasis G.
5:20 Cesar own paper is 160 gsm so 150gsm is also paintable after priming it
5:50 after it opens you cannot see the stitches
And also ivory warm white pages instead of cold white
6:50 smooth surface = if you don’t want grain to show and want precise details
9:20 he tape the top and bottom edge of the paper while gesso and painting
Because of you I'm an ardent fan of these and they have become a staple.
You're the best Cesar! You inspired me a while back to get a sketchbook to do master studies in! I'm still a newbie, but I'm excited to study master paintings from my local museum and try to learn and develop my art. Thanks for the education and inspiration!
I hope your journey has been going well.
@@kanerobertson7930 It has! Thank you!
You have made me a believer (in sketchbooks) thank you Santos!!!
I love your enthusiasm and the way you look for a sketchbook that is as unique as you!
You’re such an incredible artist, you’ve inspire me to start taking art very seriously and I just wanted to say thank you for that.
Wish you all the best.
Cesar Bouguereau Sargent Santos in da house! Thank you so much for this info on sketchbooks! The painting sketch turned out amazing!
You are the best! Congratulations for your amazing work !
Wonderful as always. Magical watching the painting develop. Hello from a really beautiful sunny warm spring morning in England. Much love as always
Been using these sketchbooks for years. I love them
Cesar thank you so much for this review! I will certainly purchase a number of these.
Excellent explanation of the different papers in the S&B sketchbook series. I always have a hard time deciding which of their papers to get in my sketchbook, but it never matters in the end since they're all great in their own way and can adapt my working method to best fit the paper. Thank you for giving me a new way of sealing my drawing on canvas. Normally I'll use a very thin layer of liquin, but I'd like to try your light coat of fixative and then the clear gesso since I'm painting on Claessens acrylic primed. Cheers!
Oh that was refreshing. I made my own sketchbook, because I didn’t find what I was looking for. I love how you use your sketchbooks, 👏🏼👏🏼I am inspired. Thank you for sharing about your processes, it helps a lot. 😊
Cesar, thanks for the great information about sketchbooks. Very educational and very inspiring! Great job!
Really enjoy these sketch book vid's. I learn a lot.
Hey Cesar, you are a master! and you influenced me to think outside of the box! I appreciate this greatly! Also Great job on the videos and DVDs!
Thank you! I've learned so much!
Thanks Cesar for demonstrating your review. I enjoy seeing various media demonstrations. I was fortunate to be introduced to these fantastic journals by Dion Dior when I took her watercolor pencil course several years ago. They are the only journals I have ever used. Dion Dior suggested buying the best art supplies you can afford.
Love. I use stillman and birn epsilon series, but I always needed to know what the best series was for painting. Thanks for going through all of them.
This is an awesome video. Thanks for sharing these new sketchbooks. I have been kind of piecing pages together to make my own painting sketchbook but now I don't have to.
This is sooo cool, I was looking at these sketchbooks and wondering if I should try them or not. There are so many choices. 😊
great work in the sketchbook, have just been learning some new techniques for painting watercolours on gesso paper, tfs
I love your work man.
Tu trabajo es HERMOSO!!!!
Cesar, eres un dios de la pintura, lo digo en serio jajaja. Espero ver mas seguido como pintas, ya que aprendo mucho con tus vlogs. Ojala pudiera tener un sketchbooks como esos jaja. Saludos desde Venezuela!!!
AWESOME!!!
Thanks for the imfo.. I bet it would be cool looking through your scetch books Cesar.
Thank you for doing this video! It was so helpful as I get into buying nicer sketchbooks- that beta series is exactly the sort of thing I’m looking for!
I absolutely LOVE Stillman &Birn and stand by their sketchbooks - I have tried other sketchbooks and I keep my S&B - their 270 gsm ones are perfect for Inktober - I get them in various sizes including square. Illio is nothing in comparison- - markers still show thru in Illio to the other side. So highly highly recommend Stillman & Birn as well - used most of their alphabet so far and have mot been disappointed.
Amazing!!!
Sir Iam your biggest fan and i love your paintings
Hi Cesar: I am the proud owned of two of your videos and have found them very helpful. I wonder whether you would consider a video of techniques for drawing “large” - how to get large pieces of rolled paper flat; if you tack paper to the wall to work on anything you do to protect the wall; special challenges or things to consider when drawing the figure or portrait in a very large size vs. smaller; anything else I didn’t think to ask? Keep up the good work!
Awesome man
CESAR BOUGUEREAU💚💚💚💚💚
cool, thanks for the review. I found out about it at the stillman and birn website. They are my fave sketchbooks. I use the 9X12 and I always use the 150gsm and it is enough for all my watercolor. I mostly do nature journaling. I will share your method with my friedns who do oil painting.
Do you use clips to hold the book open until the oil dries?
What gesso and brand oil paints are you using. Are you using a medium when painting in the sketch book. It looked a little like a dry brush technique but I probably over load my brushes so I do not know.
Thank you for inspiring others.
You are always interesting Cesar.
This is very funny at the end.
Ceasar...always the best in CZcams
I think soft covers also smear the drawings. That may be of benefit during the process of a drawing.
Someone recommended me Stillman&birn sketchbooks last year and I bought there Gamma and Zeta series and have filled both sketchbooks out they are great quality sketchbooks I definitely recommend them
Sebastian Tinajero will the zeta series do well with acrylic paint?
I love this demo so much!! Does anyone know Cesar ever mentions varnishing the finished paintings in his sketchbooks or does he just do the wax paper?
perfect
I think they meant "Nova" as in "New" (in latin). the greek series names are greek alphabet and the "new" series is Nova - latin (roman).
Tom Sender Yes, I am sure, just wanted to dream into it a bit and b poetic.
Who knows, your guess is as good as mine. from a poetic and lyrical point of view i prefer your interpretation to my pragmatic boring one :)
a question to you
at 9:45 i just wonder how did it get so smooth afterwards, it seems like the paper was ruined at 9:45 but seconds later you didnt show how you got it to be ok again just wonder because im kind of a starter with sketchbooks and gesso and i want to know for sure what im going to do for it to go well
great video though
Hey Cesar what is that green brown stain you covered the canvas with before you started painting the hair black ? Thanks
If I may ask, what did you coat the charcoal drawing with? Acrylic matte?
jalopy2222 clear gesso!
Eres un crack César!!! Teneis que facilitar subtitulos en español! Un abrazo desde 🇪🇸
Hey my man,in the 270 gsm you put a layer on first and then the sketch and then gesso......was the first layer before the sketch also gesso?.....thanks for the vids!
What are your thoughts on Peter Paul Rubens?
Cesar, may I ask, how is it that you apply gesso to your sketchbooks? As in the density of it, number of layers, etc. I recently tried applying gesso to some fabriano paper I had rolling around my house and I think I messed up as there were some areas of the paper in which paint flowed seemlessly but some others in which I could barely paint in.
Hy Cesar you are love blessings and love
Any sketchbook review video that ends with a knock knock joke has to get a Like from me!
Seriously though, thanks for this comprehensive review. I want to check these sketchbooks out.
AlonzoTheArmless 🤣
May I ask where can we get the music that's playing while you paint? I cannot find the Artist Thanasis G with that song anywhere. Not even CZcams!
What medium are you using to paint in your sketchbook?
How long does it take you to finish a sketchbook painting?
Genial
Thanks Cesar always very good! I love your art! Can I ask you what did you use to fix the charcoal drawing? Clear gesso?
Daniela Protopapa yep
Cesar Santos thank you!
Can we make oil painting or Watercolor painting on this sketch books? Reply
I'd like to see a tutorial on how you make your own sketchbooks!
White Rabbit here on CZcams has a video on making sketchbooks.
what colour did you draw?
Hi Cesar! I was curious, do you ever study or draw from non-European art?
❤❤❤❤🙏🙏
Cesar, thanks for the video. Did you paint this in stages or all in one go? I guess it would be pretty hard to do wet in wet?
Peter Sandberg i let the 3 layers dried
@@santocesart
What medium do you paint in the sketchbook?
Hwat is the name of the painter because I am also trying to copie it but copieing from what I see in a youtube video is harden than from a biger size foto
Worked at a store and joined a lil late. Apparently they showed up Nd gave everybody like 5 of these to have. Too dope.
Hi Cesar, what was that clear substance you covered your drawing with before you painted it, acrylic?
White gesso
How much sir,,Bayer to national book store in all brandches
Cesar, are you doing those painting studies in one sitting in a more like wet to wet direct method or use the same technique as in your DVD when you wait each layers to dry in between each steps ?
Nicolas Collings same, i hardly do alla prima.
Cesar Santos thank you Cesar, I m loving your DVD so far. Your commentaries are clear and very informative.
Hi, Cesar! Among those, which one is best for drawing alone? :)
Allyssa Olaivar i haven't tried all. But any will be good for drawing
Pick one with medium grain paper and 150 gsm if dry media. I like Alpha a lot for sketches - med grain, white 150 gsm, will take a light wash.
I use Canson. Nothing beats Canson, since 1557.
You can avoid the warping by placing the page on top of some glass surface. Watch some tutorials on preparing origami paper with CMC, they teach it.
National book store in Philippines Bayer too books art ,I practice to home artwork,,,oky,,, thanks you sir,,,, hobbies to art book ,,,
come find "birn"
Genio
Cesar how did this paper compare to your custom sketchbooks for doing an oil painting? I would love to hear more about how well this book works or doesn't work as you fill it up. I have been trying to find a proper sketchbook for painting ever since I saw your videos on sketchbooks. I thought I would have to create my own but I think I will try the S&B Beta to get started. S&B has a nice chart on their web site that shows all the specs of each book series they also have full sheets of art paper 22''x 30'' in different tones. www.stillmanandbirn.com/specs.html
mtbowers929 this paper felt better for painting, i haven't drawn much yet, but I am sure is great for drawing too.
To book art work practice to me screcth book art,oky
Hey Cesar. The painting in the backround could use some conservation, I recommend checking out Baumgartner Restoration he has an awesome CZcams Channel. He does GREAT work.
my life blood liderated you i do not need aney trhing other then your free tung
This just sounds to me like a sponsored ad, so they got it touch with you, and you dont usually use their paper so?, was it a sponsored video or did you seek them out, im confused? The sketchbooks are good either way
saludos cesar seria fabuloso si hicieras el video tambien en español o por lo menos con subtitulos .un abrazo desde colombia
Not cheap but they look great
Wonderful as always. Magical watching the painting develop. Hello from a really beautiful sunny warm spring morning in England. Much love as always