Two Sketchbook Pages

and many experiments along the way

Hello again!

This week I have two sketchbook pages to share. I feel like I’ve finally hit my stride with making sketchbook spreads now and I’m just enjoying it so much!! My creative time the past few days has been all about experimenting with materials and trying to figure out a process that really helps me connect with the act of mark-making.

I’ve been parallel-artworking with some artists on youtube (and by that I mean I pull up their videos while I’m drawing), many of whom talk at length about creating freely and loosely and cultivating a lack of fear around making ugly artwork. You see, for the past couple of years I have been absolutely agonizing over Art, creating large pieces with flexible mediums that have incredible amounts of layering, on which I would get stuck for literal months. But making these sketchbook pages and hearing these artists’ thoughts, I am feeling SO inspired to just fill up this entire sketchbook with ugly art and beautiful art and experiments, and to share even spur-of-the-moment drawings filled with spontaneous and carefree energy. :-)

This is the first page I drew this past week. Maybe you can feel the struggle! As soon as I brought the colored pencils to the page I felt a bit disenchanted and locked into a tug-of-war. Colored pencils felt so right on the previous sketchbook page with the fruits that I thought I had figured out the perfect process that would carry me through this whole sketchbook, yet here I was on the second page already needing a change!

Enter Tombow Markers. WOW did I enjoy using them on this next page!! It felt so fun to use them messily and brightly without a care in the world. The result really tickles something in my brain! Unfortunately, I only have about 10 colors at the moment, so some colored pencils had to step in to assist… but I will likely remedy that situation this week. (≖‿≖ ) I can’t wait to continue on with the gel pen and marker combo to see if the magic holds and how the process can continue to evolve!

Thanks for reading and looking at my art ( • ◡•)

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