 Hey guys, how are you today? Alright, so we are here back from a long absence with my messy sketchbook Those of you who are unfamiliar with my messy sketchbook, I will link it Link it. I will link at least one of the other videos or playlist in the description below Sorry, I'm rebooting my computer. That's the noise in the background Anyway, I will link at least one of the videos or the playlist in the description below so you can take a look and see what I'm talking about it was in a Recollections of a version of a traveler's notebook. I Recently got a hold of another one of these custom keepers from my friend Shannon Green These are made out of old billboard vinyl and they are cut You know from a big billboard, so you never know kind of what piece you're gonna get And what it's gonna look like on the cover. They're all different They are paintable and you can collage on it and all that kind of stuff and I have done that with one of them This is the same size this one has been painted and collaged on and Then sealed at least on the outside. I didn't do anything the inside was plain. I'd left it on This one here for the messy sketchbook. I kind of like the idea on this one. I'm just leaving it as is So I think for the moment. That's what I'm gonna do. I'm pretty happy with it I took all of the notebooks out of my old the old recollections one and put them in here Scrap piece of paper These are Moleskine Kaeya notebooks and they fit in here really well and I have three of them in here and then I did also get this toolkeeper from her This is a new thing and I'm gonna call it a toolkeeper But as of filming this I'm not sure what she's gonna call it if it's currently listed on her website I will link it in the description below and I will link her store for sure. She has these Custom keepers in a lot of different sizes and like I said, this is a new addition That is something you can get and look at that it holds. It'll actually hold more markers pens paint brushes You know you could put a paper clip on the little elastic loop and hang a gift card an Old gift card with like washi tape on it from there like you could do so much with this You could put a pair of scissors in the loop there It's just it's a really great idea and you can do it on the inside, but you can also do it on These other sides too, and it's adjustable. So she's got toggles here So if you need to make your loops bigger to accommodate bigger tools, you can do that So I put all of my messy sketch drawing tools as you see I don't use very much In here, and I put my three notebooks in here and I've been working on and I haven't done a lot of messy sketches in here The first one was done in 2016. It is currently January 3rd 2018, and I've only gotten This far that's really bad. So I'm going to try to work on this journal what I did notice was that something I liked about this journal is before I started sketching I went through and I Did some sort of inky-painty thing on the backgrounds That's already there, and then I do the sketch on top of it. I really like that and I like that idea But I couldn't remember what I did Well, how bad is that? So I had to go rewatch one of my old videos to see what I did because I couldn't remember And I've the reason I wanted to know was because I have ran out of pages So these are all from 2016 2016 2016 and then 2017 December this is December 29th 2017. This is October 2016. So almost a year. That's how long this sat I do like to do that daily sketches. I just stopped doing them So I'm back to doing them So anyway, we're gonna start here I'm gonna clip this off. I'm gonna fast forward through the process I'm gonna try to ink up a bunch of pages and let them dry and set it aside and Get things ready to do some more sketching. I'll be back Okay, so I've put clips in between all the pages as you can see I was a little bit of a gorilla with the paper and When I do this the paper gets pretty wet and you need to be pretty gentle with it or you'll do this I'm not super concerned because that's just another opportunity for background embellishment What I will probably do is I'm gonna I save the piece you can see it right there After everything is dry I'll probably fix it with a piece of paper washi tape or plane masking tape and tape it in I say paper washi tape because I want to be able to sketch over it So I won't use any of the washes that have like the plastic e-coating And more than likely I will just use a piece of plain old fashion masking tape To fix it probably a little piece on each side I actually have some masking tape that is different width So I'll probably use like a fat piece on one side and a couple of skinny strips on the other something like that Anyway, so I'm gonna let this dry and then it's gonna go back in the book And it's all ready to do some more sketching in if you would like to see what I do in this book I don't always make videos, but I do post the pictures to Instagram and Twitter and my Facebook feed so go to the link tree link in the description below and You will find every place you can find me on the internet all of my social media my website my online stores Ways you can support the free content here on YouTube and over on Facebook all that stuff It's in the link tree link. So check it out. That's it for right now Don't forget the most important thing besides liking sharing and subscribing to my channel and my video That is to go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys