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Hi everyone!
I’ve been watching this forum for awhile now, and I hope that by participating I will be motivated to draw more often in my own sketchbooks. The sketchbook I’m using for this thread is a 4″x6″ Simply Sketchbooks by Daler-Rowney. I bought it super cheap at Walmart to try and get myself to practice drawing freehand.
The first couple pages are boring because I attempted to force myself to draw a picture everyday. That did not work well at all. I’m planning on doing more elaborate sketches in the future.
This last sketch from today was just me testing out some old pens. I seem to enjoy sketching with pen the most out of all mediums.
Hello Bryanna! Great stuff, glad to have you here. I “force” myself to draw every day, and I have more than a few weak drawings this past week to prove it. The goal is not to make a pretty picture though, but to increase my awareness and knowledge of a given subject, so I may make a bad drawing, but I write actual notes if it is not abundantly clear at a glance to me what is wrong (and sometimes even when it is abundantly clear I will write it down anyhow). Sketchbooks are all about learning, and having a place to do that, one can never really go wrong as are always leaning.
These look like great learning to me, keep up the good work.
- Delo DelofashtHi and thank you Delo!
I guess what I really meant was that I have trouble drawing in a sketchbook everyday. I do draw everyday. I don’t even mean to, but my work notebooks are always covered in doodles. I attached a few examples to show you what I mean. I’m trying to get myself to keep more of my doodles in sketchbooks and less in the margins of my important notes lol.
Good practice wherever you draw Bryanna! And good advice by Delo.
Thank you Sonia!
Cheap paper is very freeing. I don’t feel bad for wasting it if I end up with something I don’t like.
Here are my sketches since yesterday:
Great use of colored pens and scribble strokes, and you are quite prolific as well. Keep up the good work, it is so worth the effort.
Thank you! I always tell people that I scribble when I draw. You can’t tell when I am working with pencils, but with pens, all my strokes show. And drawing a lot is easier when you have a tiny sketchbook
I like the lively marks behind the flower in post 7!
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All Media Art Events, Artwork From Life, Art JournalsI have a bunch of pictures to upload from the past week or so. If anyone would like to know more about a particular sketch, please ask.
Well done on the parrot head and mannikin!
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