 good morning everybody and welcome to the average artist channel again thank you for stopping by i don't know what to say i'm doing this project today you've already read it on the title but i'm going to be filling this small sketchbook in a day it has 12 pages i think i was just going to sit down and do some watercolor studies all day long and then see what happens and i was thinking what i'm going to do here if anybody likes these pages i'm going to be giving them out to my patrons but yeah if you want one then go check out my patreon and hopefully i'll make something good because i don't even know if i'm going to make anything good i might be just talking absolute garbage now and you're like i don't want that what's she on about that's awful unsubscribe please don't unsubscribe please stay please okay we have everything we need to get started i have my sketchbook here that i'm currently using because i have some sketches in it that i want to try out i have my winsor and newton pink color set it's very dirty i need to clean it two paint brushes one large size one small size i don't really know about paint brushes i need better ones i've got my micron pens and my and my brush markers and then of course you've got the sketchbook which is 12 pages long it is the langton not cold pressed green i don't know what that means let's try it out little update for you my camera keeps dying and running out of space i've continued doing the work whilst charging my camera and uploading footage and stuff to my computer but we're nearly there i've nearly finished the task but it just is so tiring i didn't think that i would find it this difficult but i have been and we're running out of sunlight so i'm a bit worried about that but i'll show you where i'm at right now so i was in the middle of dina's draw this in your style challenge and i was really enjoying this one actually um the thing is because i've got to work on lots of stuff but it's watercolors i have to wait for the watercolors to dry so i'm kind of flicking between pages and waiting for it to dry as i go so that's probably why you're seeing a lot of me like skipping around i'm doing kasey's draw this in style challenge obviously very early stages there this has been a really fun exercise i think some of them are turning out better than others but i've just got three pages to go really and then small little details to add but it's just we're running out of light and worried because i mean the sun won't set for another hour or so but yeah i need to get on with it thank god you guys i think we are done and with a little time to spare with the light but it's getting dark it's about half eight now so i've been drawing for eight and a half hours or painting i finished and i can't believe it took so long and my camera is even dying now so stick around to see the sketchbook tour now good morning everybody it is now the next day and let me tell you i am really tired it's so pathetic but i'm feeling so drained by this and i think i've even caught a cold oh my god guys the stress of feeling it only 12 pages i'm honestly quite apologetic that it's 12 pages because i felt i feel like that's not many but then as i was doing it i was like this is a lot and it was hard i kept hitting wall thinking i'm not going to be able to do it and i'm just going to not have a video um to put up but i thought like just keep going and try and enjoy the process and i'll obviously discuss like when i hit walls throughout this sketchbook tour mini sketchbook tour i guess and so let's just uh dive into it shall we so the first page was the second page because this was the first page i worked on this one first so i worked on this page first and then i realized that i had missed this page i spent ages on this one trying to figure out how to layer with watercolor and then go over and do different leaves and stuff and then do different points of depth and i really like the some of the gradient work in this piece but overall not really like 100 into it i think it could have been better but you know um this was all learning process so in doing that i feel like i've learned something this one also i was a bit met about i didn't know what to do with it i wanted to do something similar to the last one and do layering and stuff like that but then i just got a bit carried away the next one i worked on was this one which i absolutely hated most of the time i kind of like it now i like the way that it works i played with posca pens and using water with the posca pens i know that's not really the point but i think they have such a nice pigment to them some of them that it was nice to work with it and water i like the way that um it turned out really i i'm not like super proud of it but i think it's a nice illustration what i started to do which you will see in the footage is that i sketched out a lot of pages as the camera was charging and stuff because they needed to get on with it so i sketched out some images this one came out a little bit murky and i think that's because i might have had dirty water at the time when you're using watercolours it's really good to have two maybe big jars of water one full cleaning your brush and one full just pure water that you're going to use to paint with and i think i just didn't have clean water at this point so it looks all the paints come out a little bit murky on this one but i still kind of like it has a bit of a weird edge to it this was my favorite one that i did i don't know why i just really like it i like pose i like everything i like the white hair against the dark blues and he's sort of brown paint instead of black and i just like the way she looks and her hands and stuff and yeah that's my favorite one then i tried to do it again and just failed so he is another person in a period costume and it just didn't it just didn't hit the mark for me but it's all alone a fly just flew on my hand did you see that it's all lessons learned in failing here and this one i absolutely hate but chris my boyfriend says he really likes it and i like the colors and i like kind of the mystique about it and i like the way the water has washed some of these colors by the way this paper this was really really nice paper for watercolours and i definitely want to use it again i tried to do another late in a period costume and i think this one's from a film or something that i took the reference image from and she's got her hands in her skirt and she's sitting down but i don't know if that's very clear within this image i didn't like this image and then i went over it with a ink brush pen then i really liked the way that it turned out next i did a draw this in the style challenge this is casey golden's cactus girl and i really like doing this because i think at this point i was really thinking nope i can't do this there's no way i can get on with this but then i started doing the draw the senior style challenge and it just gave me life i was like okay this is quite fun i can get into this and i really enjoyed doing that and i like the way that she turned out as i was drawing her i was like this is awful i'm gonna absolutely botch this it's not gonna turn out right but i really liked it and so i did dinas as well dina norland and yeah i really like the way it turned out to i think the characters are so cute it was a pleasure to draw both of these draw this in your style because it's always nice to take somebody else's characters and try and draw them i think it was just a fun challenge i didn't i haven't really done any of this draw this in your style stuff so it was really strange like realizing that i actually really enjoyed it because i was like wait why have i not done this already because this was really fun then i did a study of somebody's conservatory i guess where they have tables and lots of plants and then but then in the background was just darkness and i really like the way that contrasted with the color of the leaves and i really wanted to make it look a little bit flatter than it was because i liked that style and i think i think it really worked i added shading and stuff yeah that was just a little one that i really like doing as well that took some time obviously i had to hit the wall about halfway through this project but then i was really really tired and the last page it's just a bit of a cop out but it's some hand studies that i quite like the way that they turned out i guess it's not really a proper full illustration like these ones are sorry about my voice i think i've just lost it i'm pretty tired so that's what happened and yeah that's the last page and i think this project was really fun but really grueling at points i felt very tired but pushing through it felt really great and i think i came out with some really nice pieces i definitely underestimated the amount of work and i hope you guys won't scoff at this being a full sketchbook with only 12 pages but i guess they are sort of 12 or 11 and a half full illustrated pages as that and i think i learned so much it was just fun to just sit and experiment with color and shape and do different images and just let my mind melt into doing artwork and just having fun with it and i think it came out with some really nice pieces that i liked we'd definitely suggest doing this challenge to people if you're in a bit of an art block just go ahead and just fill out pages and have fun with it be like a kid in art class again and just drawing whatever the heck comes into your brain and inspiration will come i think it was just it was really fun and i was definitely on high after finishing this obviously like i said all my 12 dollar tier patrons can choose one of these images that they like and i will send it to them so if you want one of these pieces it's going to be a first come first serve kind of basis that's it guys thanks for watching please like and subscribe for more and i will see you next time bye i'd just 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