 Hello everybody and welcome back to The Average. I'm Steph, I'm the Average Artist. In case you're new here, I called myself that because I had a comic once that was The Average comic and now I'm stuck with it and I kind of like it. So there we go. I have finally finished a sketchbook. This is this beautiful beautiful sketchbook by Lana J. Arts and I will link her Instagram down below. This was from her shop but I think she's sold out now. You can sign up to be notified when products are back in her shop so maybe she'll restock the sketchbook. I don't know. So anyway I really like this sketchbook. I have a whole kind of review on it so we won't really get back into that much. It's a beautiful sketchbook and I really enjoyed using it. I really liked the style of it. So let's get into it. Page one. So slowly I started to run out of room and actually this is my most recent drawing. So this is kind of my last drawing of the sketchbook and it was just a doodle for my Hogwarts Sona thing that I did with Colour Holds creations. It's my latest last video and I was just doodling out maybe some YouTubers as well as Louisa and yeah. It was fun. This is also quite a recent thing. When I finished this end of this sketchbook I went to the beginning again to start to use the front pages which is now open by the way guys if you want to go check that out. Link in description. And so I have the book club tier, tip jar tier, YouTube tier and I don't know I was trying to make some really nice icons and then in the end I kind of went with these because I really like them and I used like alcohol markers of them and the monotone markers for these. So this is like paint and this is a call marker which I really enjoyed. So we're getting to the actual beginning of the sketchbook. This is the very first thing that I painted in the sketchbook. It's from my horror comic that I'm still working on. You guys are getting bored of hearing that and then I doodled some statues and stuff. I'm trying to get used to working with tones and as the sketchbook goes on you can see that I'm studying a little bit more trying to get a little bit better at things instead of just painting nice pretty things and I'm actually trying to study anatomy and all these. Here is another picture similar to the last one. It's just like a motel mirror. I don't know what I was doing here. I think I was having that you know when you first start a sketchbook and you just kind of draw stuff and you're like oh I don't really like that. So I was just trying to get that out of the way and again here just like a pattern weird pattern random. This is watercolor and as you can see the paper kind of doesn't hold that very well but as I've said many times I really like that texture. I don't know why I've just find it really appealing. Yeah I don't know why I can't explain it. Here is some more work. I was going to do a paper cutout art thing and I was going to do like a shark in a hallway because I was thinking that's going to be part of the comic and then doodling because I was trying to get out of the way like I said all this block that you first get when you first start a sketchbook. I don't know if you guys get that but I definitely get that because there's always that intimidation of the white page and starting something new. I got a nib and dip pen you know there's like sort of like a quill pen but not really and you dip it in ink and you draw with it. I did a whole graphic novel with that pen when I was in university and I forgot how much I really liked it like the style of art that um style of line that you can get and I wanted to try using that again so this is just me experimenting with trying to use that pen and well how to use it again getting used to it basically. This side is my old house before we moved so this is my old living room that I drew out with like a fine liner and then I just water colored over the top. I really like the way that this turned out even though it's kind of messy. Just do a little bit of a zoom in for you guys so you can see like all the stuff on my shelves and my old desk and books and lights and posters and I do really like that because it's kind of captured like a time for me that if no longer exists and this is where we're staying right now during quarantine we stayed in this flat and I had an empty page so I went when I finished the sketchbook I went back to fill this out and I thought it would be a nice comparison like before and after like different views so just this one didn't take me very long this one took me ages so this is me experimenting again with the dip pen I think I can get some really expressionate lines here. I don't know if you guys have seen the craft but it's one of my favorite movies it's like 90s movie about witches and it's really cool. A little bit scary at the end it's not like super scary but it's creepy. It scared me when I was a kid though but yeah really cool characters and I was just drawing them and I really like this kind of style. Here I was preparing for book paint over for crazy rich Asians and I was drawing out different things that I could put on the cover and then the expression of the main character and different things so yeah fun nailing basically. I made my mum like a either a mother's day card or a birthday card I can't remember at this time but yeah that's my mum and I made her this card and turned out quite nice and then I was just doodling I think it was still a bit like what am I gonna do with this sketchbook at this point. More random doodles and little thumbnails for a glow in the dark video that I made. More craft kind of fan art here. A doodle of one of the images for my glow in the dark image that I did which is this so I drew out what I wanted to do here. I also drew like a sort of cowboy girl realistically just to kind of find out how to stylize her if that made sense because I wanted to draw like an adventurer. I remember that and then I made ghosts because I used like this glow in the dark paint and I really really like this piece. I'm really proud that I did all this preliminary work because that piece turned out something that I really enjoyed so there we go and this is a sticker by Joy San from her Patreon. I hate this page but I'm going to show you guys everything and you know sketchbooks are sort of meant to be a place where you can just experiment and do bad things and it doesn't matter. So I had this glow in the dark paint like I said and I drew this so this should glow in the dark. I kind of like this a little bit but it's just wrong as well like a hands wrong and I think I just went for it with the the pen and I didn't really care. I think this was inktober so I was thinking of like what to draw for that. Yeah one of the things was snail and jam I'm not sure. This was for my it paint over so I was drawing different clowns and stuff trying to figure out how to make a scary clown and I think I accomplished it because I really like that book paint over. Again it's a video on my channel so if you guys want to search for it just search for it but yeah this is the clown that I went with eventually and it was kind of like a cover that you opened up and then the inside I drew the losers gang which you can see here it's kind of a thumbnail and then here was my idea that I was going to do for inktober so I went ahead and I drew out all these different thumbnails for each one and I really really like these. I got really inspired by them and sort of this angular style that came up from nowhere but then when I went to do them I used that ink stuff that I got from a subscription box I can't remember which one it is. I think it might be palette full um they sent it to me and I used the alcohol inks and yeah you can go see that video if you want but I did every single one of these in there on that alcohol sheet and they didn't come out as clear as this so they were kind of cool but they're not as I don't know I really like some of these little doodles so yeah I don't know um they're pretty cool. Next page and here okay this one is a mess I think I hadn't at this point drawn in my sketchbook for a long time and yeah I wanted I went through a stage of wanting to quit my job like there's no problem me saying that because my work knows that and we sorted things out so I don't know I quit that day and I just doodled and that's why it says I quit but I'm still at the job and I'm really happy now so don't worry about me um here is my doodle of how I felt so like the progressive like feeling here is a weird like little t-rex image of pesto which looks a little bit crazy there so we're just going to skip past this page. This is my thumbnail for the hate you give uh book paint over I really like this paint over I think it turned out really well it's one of my favorites ever and I love that book and it's kind of important that book it's quite prominent at the moment so if you feel like reading something about racial tension and things like that that is a really amazing book here is a little doodle for the horror comic I was just I don't know I was like thinking of oh what could I do with like floating things above pool or I don't know I was just messing around with this concept so I kept this in the sketchbook to remind me of that that idea so that's that here is let's try to like draw creepy things that might appear or not appear so I was just trying to because it's kind of hard to draw something scary if that makes sense I think trying to convey something or mood or feeling it is difficult with a comic trying to make scary things and I saw this giant bird that was quite scary so I drew him out this one is kind of something that I just did after all this to fill the page and it was with my monitor paint markers and it's a painting called pintura de albert anchor I don't know um yeah but I really like the way that turned out the style of it with the alcohol markers coming through the page and giving like this pattern I liked it I kind of like this guy he's kind of scary and I like this melty face because I want to do something with that imagery I painted a girl and she turned out looking like that girl from hereditary that movie if you've seen it that horror movie but like subconsciously I didn't I made her up so creepy um and then I used the alcohol markers to just doodle some different scenes and stuff I'm going to zoom in here for you guys because it's kind of hard to see but I was just messing with style and trying to convey an idea with just a couple of colors and yeah kind of like the way this turned out it's kind of cool here um a lot of the alcohol markers came through the page so I just stuck this down and I like this kind of style with the pencil and then colors on top um I think it looks kind of nice so I think it's like a hard pencil or a soft pencil rather and then just the alcohol markers on top and this is a scene from a movie Leon which I really like again that's a good movie and then I drew this woman painted her I hated her face it was so weird so I did like an ocean in her face I don't know why very random but kind of like it so a little bit weird here were some different thumbnails for different videos so this was for the little women hundred page doodle I drew out like I don't know if you can see that very well but some just random sketches of how they would look um I don't know just trying out things I think this was for like a christmas card so I was like drawing different things this was for the haunting of hill house I read that book and I wanted to do a paint over but I never finished it because I just didn't like where it was going so I just stopped I kind of like that thumbnail though here are a couple of ideas for my save the dates for my wedding I wanted to do like a constellation theme so it was just like painting out the stuff and I think this is quite pretty here is uh this is for a redraw of something in the past and I was just trying to sketch out how I could do that again this is kind of an idea I've had with the the head of the woman coming off for my horror comic you probably can't see that very well because it's pencil but it's just Batman alien again and then I was doing an invite idea for my friends for their wedding um some live drawing on this side which again is kind of difficult to see but if I do that you can see it it's just some random sketches and then some thumbnails for my friends this was for the painting of painting with makeup so I sketched out what I wanted to draw here and then I think I was like testing the paint which came out of the painting with makeup here I was just like using it on this page page of different things to uh see what the colors were like and they are very nice so this is the start of the lockdown so this is when we moved to this flat and I was just drawing the room of the living room of this place this is quite funny this is a little sketch a comic idea that this is me working from home and then I could hear the cats to my left eating so just look and you just see Gigi like the mess I named him and then Pesto like delicately eating and then Kubo just shoveling down the food in his mouth and then he would like he'd like to shovel it all into his mouth and then lay it on the floor and eat delicately off of him in the morning okay you do you yeah that was a quick comic that's not really a comic it's kind of just a random idea that I sketched out really quickly there here is a picture of Kubo and some flowers here is the first images I did with my new alcohol markers that I got free from Artex they're very nice actually I really like them and as we go on you'll see that I got more into using them I'm not sure I really like these houses I didn't really do the pens that much justice but I kind of like them they're kind of quirky so this is when I started to get into the groove of my art again and this sketchbook so I painted this thing here I just did like lines have you ever heard of that exercise if you have like a brush pen with ink if you do a line and then you try to do it line a little bit just further away and then try to keep that going and keep going with a single line that's really good for your brush control I've heard so that's like a good practice technique so I was doing that a bit because it's like a fun exercise and also it helps you but also it's like kind of meditative meditative do I mean yes meditative then I wanted to draw like a bit of a melty face and it ended up looking a little bit like myself so it's kind of creepy and it is very creepy but I really like that and I want to do something like this in the comic that I keep talking about I'm really tired of talking about it I need to just do it everyone who's new here is like morning talking about making a comic it's a horror comic I've said it a thousand times so I'm talking really fast a little bit here is some ideas I had for my switch paintover that I did and yeah I really like some of these I wanted to do like a whale in water inside it and before that's going to be really difficult for the first time of painting on something so never mind here is a doodle of kubo again and here are some random pebble things here I was watching or listening to a stage play that they were putting on and I just paused it and drew out like try to draw out really really quickly the characters on the stage and yeah this was kind of the outcome of that didn't really like the way they turn out with the kind of expresses so maybe it's a good idea um I drew my work desk as we were on a really long call I was drawing like people's icons on because we're on teams and you see these icons of people I work with kind of like doing that it was fun and then you could see like my work desk and stuff I like doing that that was fun and then I was sitting out on the balcony enjoying the boats that were like in the sea ahead of me and drawing pesto and then kubo I was like kubo is it long and then I drew him again like extending longer and longer and here's pesto I really liked that and did if here was like a black splodge and I was trying to make it into something and then it was just getting worse and worse so I just put this down and then drew some more boats because I liked everything else on this page so I didn't want it ruined by just having a black splodge like I said sketchbooks are meant to be messy but I kind of like this I saw Minnie Smalls doing this um she's another youtuber she's really cool um in her sketchbook so I was like you know what if Minnie does this I'm gonna do it so I went for it here I was trying to draw like different faces I was trying to get a little bit more diverse for the normal faces I would draw I'll draw this old woman and this kind of like Japanese guy who looks kind of angry and then this very interesting looking face of another guy um yeah I was just trying to get a little bit more diverse but looks kind of cool together with this little image I did which I like this is like alcohol markers and pencils I think and then just ink I saw this cat in like a wattmelon shop so I wanted to draw that and then I started to think about this is when I started to think about my patron thumbnails so I was thinking what I could make and I do like these but they don't really um they don't really suggest what each tier is about so I let them go I tried to draw like a wave image here and it didn't really turn out how I liked it so I just did like a yellow splodge here and I don't know why I just left that so anyway um yeah and then I did like a lot with my alcohol markers different sketches I do really like this page again it's kind of cool and it's kind of quirky I like it together and yeah I like this page it's good here I was trying to experiment with my style a lot more so I'm using the Molotow pens here and then the alcohol markers and pencils and things like that and this was um my I called it my lockdown walls so these are kind of where I've been staying for all these weeks and not seeing anyone and just being in these kind of four walls for ages so I doodled that out from my memory and I really like the way it turned out it's very cute and so I got inspired by that to like keep going with that kind of style here is my milk bottle the bottle paintover that I did I kind of did like a quick sketch out of what I wanted to do here's a little illustration of me and Kubo and me playing the switch because during this lockdown I've been obsessed with animal crossing I've kind of gotten away from that a little bit now but yeah I really like that I drew out that woman without the head missing that's been a prominent image for me in my mind for the horror comic so because I like that Molotow style so much I was like maybe I could do that for my horror comic so I was just testing out how it might look I do enjoy that but I think as you go as I go on through this sketch book I get more inclined to go back to the alcohol markers one morning I woke up and Pesto just decided to like knock water over my laptop and I woke up to it like just pouring over my laptop like no Besta what are you doing and my laptop's fine so no harm no foul but yeah that was a scary wake-up call here I was drawing different heads again just trying to get just trying to get better at anatomy and yeah trying to be a little bit more diverse trying to draw men a little bit more than just women you can see that I was drawing men and then I was like whatever women again like I have a problem here I was experimenting with the pastels and paint just like a crazy mixed media thing that I think turned out quite nice I don't love it I don't hate it another lockdown image that I drew quickly with this brush pen that was running out of ink so I really like the dry bushy style that I got with it I think these would be really cool to look back on once we because we've got a new flat and I'm moving out and we're going to stay in this new flat permanently I think it'll be nice to see this flat that we stayed in during lockdown like these images in this sketchbook of looking back on it in the future would be quite interesting so I'm glad that I've been documenting it a little bit here is an image of me and my ideal desk I don't actually own one of these drawing desks you know the ones that lift up like that that would be my perfect scenario and a really nice comfy chair and like a big light and just you know just a little area for yourself I was daydreaming that that was be mine I like this drawing I can't really remember what was going for my brain but I think it's supposed to be me and I'm just like lockdown and I really like that though I don't know trying to cartoonize that's not a word try I was watching a show I think and I was just doodling out like what I saw on the show and I really like the way that one turned out I'm not sure what's going on here I think I was trying different techniques um here again Patreon ideas you can see as I go I'm trying to build upon past ideas as I've been drawing um different things so each each time I do them I'm trying to update them here is a quote by uh Frida Carlo and it says nothing is absolute everything changes everything moves everything revolves everything flies and goes away and I really like that quote so I just wanted to draw it out um I think it was very meaningful for me meaningful for me at the time when we had the lockdown and we didn't know what was going on what was going to happen so I really connected with that quote a little bit so I just wanted to write it down to remember it here is me messing with style again so I think this is a mixture of water colour and then the Molotow pens on top so I really really like the way this turned out I like this is like the bay the view from this plot this is my this was my desk at the time pesto sleeping books I don't know what this is like plants and stuff and then this is Chris playing and then these were people from the show we were watching I was trying to doodle them again and then a different place and yeah I really like this style the watercolour and then the Molotow pen as I said before you can see like a little bit of that texture here that I was talking about that you get from this sketchbook with the watercolour and yeah I like that style again experimenting with style here with using a lot of mixed media so I think I was using the Molotow pen watercolour and um pastels here I do like I do like the style because it gives a definite mood to everything but I think it's too difficult to work with all this media together it kind of fights each other but I do enjoy that as well so it depends what mood I'm in but yeah I like I really think these set a really nice atmosphere I really like them I might post an Instagram of these actually which I haven't done he was like a painting of a girl that I did just using watercolour and pencil I think a little bit I do like this this piece by itself and then I really like this one too this was this preliminary thing that I drew for um testing out the pastels and also watercolour together again and yeah it's really really nice I like this one it's a lot of atmosphere to it um it's a bit chalky bit of a mess but I kind of like that so whatever here I am trying to draw stuff I think fashion pieces that I saw on Instagram you ever have those adverts when they just advertise like these amazing bald gowns that you know won't look like that if you order them I was just drawing them out and then I was drawing like different bases trying to be more diverse again random noodle I don't know just messing with things basically here again was kind of like a mood research I would say of different stuff so again with the pastels it won't come off because I used hairspray pastels and then like a really dry brushed ink pen and different media like drawing different faces here different things here I thought I would try and draw a sign with using the black to actually make the shapes and then I drew this and I drew this girl here and it looked awful so it just went over and did this like weird face over it here is my pesto page as you can tell I'm a bit obsessed with her she was sitting on a chair near me so I was just drawing her she has a very expressive face so it was quite cute to see her like looking around and trying to just get those different angles and I really like these I think they really convey pesto so it's cool and here again drawing her and then also Kubo because they were lying like at the end of my bed and then I was trying to do like different colors I like this one of Kubo I think it's really cute these were my thumbnails for the most recent no it's not most recent it's my pastel video that I did recently and it's just different thumbnails basically to see what I wanted to do I think this is one of my favorite pages of the book you can see that I'm starting to really get into it again get into drawing feeling inspired not feeling in a rut like I had done in the beginning of the sketchbook and yeah you can see I've got different things um just doodling out different stuff that's that sailor moon challenge that came out and I just doodled out I didn't want to make a big thing of it I just wanted to add it to I was trying to draw things that I was grateful for so I was like grateful for the cats I got this new face mask from the ordinary I don't know if you guys have heard of it it's just this brand and it looks like blood but it's totally and it's just like a a really good face mask and it's really cheap so I really like that and I've got a new dressing gown which I really like so I was just you know doodling out things that I was grateful for for the time I don't know I think that's a good thing to do when you're feeling a bit down is appreciate stuff around you here it was a little comic that I wanted to do um I was thinking about doing a zine I think I've already explained this actually somewhere anyway I was thinking about doing a zine where I drew out houses that I've lived in because I've lived in a lot of houses being an army brat so to speak so I wanted to draw like a comic about different things and basically in this one I think I was like four maybe and there was this this light and I was really scared of it for some reason I thought it's gonna attack me it was one of those like swirly fan lights and then my grand bought me like this little toadstool house um light and I really like that and I have a really like solid memory of getting that and just having it for years and years really interesting isn't it but yeah I think it would be cool to have like a little slice of life little story for each probably more for myself than anyone else but that's the best way to write stuff right is for yourself here again I was thinking about Patreon I'm sorry to keep going on about it don't worry about it if you don't want to join whatever I'm not trying to push it on you guys but I'm just trying to explain what's in this sketchbook and I was thinking about using pesto as one of the thumbnails for like the chip jar I know you did this and I was like that is awful and I did this and I was like that's a little bit better than that but it's still awful and then I got totally sidetracked by drawing pesto again and I really love this piece so I wanted to keep it blank all around her but she's so cute guys she's so cute I'm obsessed with her and she was lying at the end of the bed so I just joodled that out and I really liked it again more Patreon noodles trying to figure out how to show what the book club will be the book club is basically like we'll pick a book every month and then we'll draw art on it and we'll make like a dedicated video for it and stuff like that and then more pesto drawings this is my lockdown uniform I think it's just leggings and a t-shirt and like some thick socks just living my style and just like with really messy hair doing whatever then more Patreon thumbnails and then it got super distracted doing a kiki that kiki redraw thing that was going around as well I did that and then I kind of like it but I don't love it so I didn't post it anywhere this is the end of the sketchbook this is the final page basically more sort of Patreon things I think I used these two in the end and then also these ones at the front because I did these recently because I like that style of the alcohol markers and then the pen I think I really like that so I think I'm going to look into doing that for more comical stuff because this is what I did for my old horror comic and I think I really liked it then and I really like it now so I don't know why I would mix it up so much if I still really enjoy this this is a friend of mine she had a birthday recently so I was trying to joodle her out because I wanted to make her a card but then I just got a little bit insecure about it and I was like well what if she hates it it's insulted um here's pesto on my desk again and some different doodles with the alcohol markers and also like a layer of Molotow underneath I wanted to try out how that would look this is a card that I got with a code on it from a shop and it says you matter so I just put that in there this also has like a little um pocket at the back I forgot the word for pocket and I've been talking for too long sorry guys and I just kept in stuff that I've done over the time of having the sketchbook that I've done outside of the sketchbook so this is my dibby paint over um there's a different one I think I did this for like arctic sent me some of the their pens and stuff so tried out some more stuff so yeah I just keep stuff in the back I want to frame this one I think I really like that I framed the other one one second so here's the other framed version and I yeah I really like this so I'm keeping it um frame like that and I think it could be a patreon reward because I've got on my patreon if you have a certain tier you can get like an original by me every month yeah so I really like that one I was thinking of using that as one of the rewards but no one's picked that that option which is fine so I get to keep it and yeah that is my my sketchbook tour of this sketchbook I'm really kind of sad that this sketchbook is finished now and I don't think she's gonna have any more available anytime soon on my ask her actually because I really really liked it I really enjoyed using it and I would love to get another one I've got a new um a new sketchbook and you guys have probably seen that if you seen my last video it was like the start of a new sketchbook and I really I'm not sure if I like it as much as this one so far but maybe that's just the adjustment period that I go through every time and I'm getting used to it I kind of like it but I like a bigger spread to just kind of work across and make like a full page stuff yeah anyway that's my my final thoughts on this beautiful sketchbook and I'm gonna miss it but it's finished and I'm proud of it thanks for watching guys please like and subscribe if you want to see more content please go check out my patreon even if it's just to like view it it really helps my channel really helps support me to keep going and doing this stuff I really appreciate you guys and to give my patrons a little bit of a shout out I'd like to personally thank Steph, Meghia and Katie for being part of the boss here and you guys get a shout out at the end of my videos so thank you so much guys it really means a lot to me bye