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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Jan 6, 2023 ^^
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01:49 Really cool to see old sketches of Stan. It's nice to see how a master started just like all of us
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I have many sketchbooks, but I honestly love printer paper for practice. I think it's almost 100% psychological though, because it keeps the "this is precious" mentality out of my way. I don't think about that chronological aspect that Stan mentioned as much though. None of my stuff is in order and I even throw it away on occasion. I wonder if people would cringe watching me throw stacks of drawings in the trash š? Even in my sketchbooks, my art isn't in order because I have so many and I draw in whatever one is closest to me at the time. I think I may be very different than other people in that respect. I think I'm mostly concerned with what I draw next more than what I already drew. Huh, interesting to do some self analysis.
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Iāve been drawing for years though I havenāt completely mastered a lot of elements to art, I realized that regular sketch paper even printed paper works alright. As for pens, I found ballpoint still being the absolute best even though weāll have them all over the house. Like Stan says, itās all about comfort and you donāt need to settle for something very expensive because art is actually a cheap and easy to pick up hobby, perhaps career.
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I love how he says a sketchbook should be for play, exploration, and practice, and all the drawings in the sketchbook heās sharing are mainly finished pieces š¤ I understand heās had years of skill under his belt, so thatās probably why. But I would like to see more sketchbooks that are full of messy, explorative sketches that wouldnāt necessarily meet everyoneās standard of āsharable artā. I think that wouldāve helped me a lot when I was a younger artist.
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I like that bit at the end about sketchbook versus portfolio. Reminds me of when I was a kid people would steal my sketchbooks because they want to see what the ātalentedā artist kid would drawā¦ needless to say my sketchbook became a portfolio really quick lol š„²š
Very useful information all throughout & interesting to hear about the difference between pound and Gram paper. Excellent as always Stan!
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I watched this video by the begining of 2023 and I can't say how grateful I was for deciding to watch this. Your advice is such a game changing for me. I started to throw away all my expectations of creating a masterpiece on a sketchbook and started to draw messily on every sketchbook I got. I finished three sketchbook by the begining of this year. Now I bring my sketchbook anywhere with me. It feels great just to doodle and trying new things with tools I have. Drawing became so so much fun again ā¤ā¤ā¤š Thank you so much mr. Proko ššš
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Oh, Stan, even after years of amateur drawing, your video starts exactly where I am. I want my sketchbooks to have beautiful, semi-finished drawings on every page, but every time I pick up a pencil after a few weeks of not drawing, everything looks like crap to me. I want to be free with my sketchbooks, but I have this sense that "Real Artists" have good drawings on every page. Thanks for bringing me back to Earth.
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Spiral bound books can also be made more sturdy by tying them together with bits of string so the spiral is completely closed. I often find that they get beat up easily and start dropping pages. My personal preference as someone doing a lot of watercolour and ink is 300gsm mixed media, ideally toned but white is also good
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I loved using printer paper for a bunch of my pencil sketching at one point. Iād buy a ream, hole punch the sheets, and fill up a folio style 3 ring binder that could be refilled as needed. It allowed me to just get in a ton of sketching mileage without having to worry about using up the paper or making mistakes, and it was one of the things that helped to build my skill and confidence. Later on, I was able to move to sketchbooks with better paper and both appreciate the quality of drawing in them, and feel less intimidation and pressure than I would have done without that printer paper practice.
Another type of sketching that I feel helped my drawing in combination with a ton of printer paper was digital. Treating drawing on an iPad much like drawing on paper (not using a ton of the digital bells and whistles), I had the opportunity to sort of bust through my failures faster and/or discover how I could fix something and try it again. This also carried over into more confidence when working in traditional media, because the sense of āI can fix thingsā started to more and more replace the fear of messing up, and that freedom allowed me to grow.
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Next week weāll have a premium-only comprehensive beginners guide to Pencils, Erasers, and Sharpeners! Thatās over at proko.com/drawing
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