Is this really the World's Most Ink-Friendly Notebook? Endless Sketchbook Test

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Жыл бұрын

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So obviously at this point I don't know if I will end up working with Endless Stationery to make a custom Peter Draws sketchbook, but I do like what I've seen from them so far, and I would be pretty happy attaching my name to these products. I want to start taking that leather one with exchangeable inserts to school with me to see how it stands up to some regular usage, and I'll try to update you.
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@Ch-thalassa Жыл бұрын

following you channel for years helped me realize my dreams. I went from a sad person to an art teacher. I watch a peter draws video to remind myself that everything is okay. youve been there for me the whole time and I don't even know how to express how wonderful it is to be an artist who found you.

@Fitter_Than_U_at_50 Жыл бұрын

Same

@Mrs.LadeyBug Жыл бұрын

That is SO awesome!

@paulwoodford1984 Жыл бұрын

i am so sorry to hear that you’re now an art teacher 😞 You went from sad to sadder 😭

@bobamatcha9323 Жыл бұрын

@@paulwoodford1984 what do you mean by that?

@paulwoodford1984 Жыл бұрын

@@bobamatcha9323 Being an art teacher sucks. They also teach students nothing

@Spartyo Жыл бұрын

I have never seen a video show up on my recommended that was posted 43 seconds ago. Lol.

@oberonsci3 Жыл бұрын

No disassemble! We would need to treat the sketch book like a historic book on display at a museum. The curator is the pagemaster tasked with flipping to the next entry. And, depending on the time you go to the museum, you would see a different day in the life of Peter. Could encourage repeat visits!

@Specters0rd Жыл бұрын

👏👏♥️♥️♥️

@coloringanddoodling9751 Жыл бұрын

Stephanie !

@DaBunne Жыл бұрын

No disassemble johnny 5?

@Thesketchfox Жыл бұрын

or you can just scan the drawings

@Mrs.LadeyBug Жыл бұрын

When I homeschooled my boys and needed a high-use reference book to stay intact, or to make a workbook reusable, I’d get the spine professionally cut off, then either get the pages laminated or put them in plastic sheet protectors, depending on the importance of their preservation. Sheet protectors obviously won’t be quite as good as lamination but they were quick and handy, as they already had 3 ring binder holes and I could just pop them into a binder. I got one book separated, laminated, and rebound. There are great quality matte laminating options now, and if you get it rebound with a big margin at the spine for ease of page turning (without bending your art, but only the laminate material), it would preserve your sketchbooks as close to the original order and spirit of them without harming them. I hope you find the best way possible to share your precious, genius, unique creations with the world!

@marcusshaner7066 Жыл бұрын

You may say that you don't have the answers, but you always turn around and have wonderful suggestions. I'm 43, but I too have never let the plusses or minuses keep me from drawing. I draw, I doodle, everywhere, since I was a kid. You're great, Peter, always refreshing.

@Milark Жыл бұрын

11:28 As someone with a bit of experience working with clothing and streetwear. Your designs would make for a sick clothing line. If you want more people to see your work that’s definitely one of the best options. I was actually thinking about that exact thing before you started talking about it.

@Zephlett Жыл бұрын

I'm a huge fan of zip up six ring binders. I have a special hole puncher that I use to punch whatever paper is my favorite surface at the moment. I keep different sections, too, so I can jot down lists or write letters on brightly colored paper, sketch on cream or toned dot grid, and color on white bristol. When the notebook gets full, I take out some of the older work and settle it into a box and add new blank pages. The zipper means my pages are protected from light spills or rains, too, and I have a little pocket insert where I keep postage stamps and small envelopes. I do still work in regular bound notebooks sometimes, but I like having a system that can function indefinitely.

@walteredstates Жыл бұрын

Dang! .. that's so organised! As someone who mostly likes finding random, possibly vintage notebooks for diary and doodles, I'm v impressed with this holistic diary-doodle-shoppinglist system.

@pmbluemoon Жыл бұрын

When you put the strap on your shoulder for the pen and said "That's safe, right?" and looked at it with the pointy side up, that made my day 🤣

@stef1lee Жыл бұрын

Here's an idea 💡 You could commission a limited number of poster size prints mounted and sell them. Pieces that your fans admire the most. I'm sure it would be very difficult to decide since you're amazingly talented. And also, have a "coffee table" flip book created with prints of your original sketchbooks and a little word here and there about your pieces. Honestly, your work speaks for itself. That would save your originals from becoming torn, dog eared, smudged from finger licks, and even torn. I can assure you of this... long after you're gone, folks are going to be in full admiration of your works and fighting over original works. I bet you'll have Peter Draws experts.

@Joe___R Жыл бұрын

To allow people to see your sketchbooks the best way would be to take extremely high resolution pictures of each drawing and have them developed then frame each photograph. A film photograph is still at a resolution that digital can't get close to today. A tintype photograph is to this day the highest resolution photograph type ever created.

@aaronmoma7453 Жыл бұрын

You should make a sketchbook with the intentions that the pages will change with the interaction of fingers…it would evolve the more people would look at it. It would literally be an art collaboration with strangers.

@Diskilla Жыл бұрын

I love sketchbooks too. :D And I totally would get a Peter Draws Explorer Sketchbook.

@w00dsm0ke Жыл бұрын

Woah. Amazing piece Peter, I love it when you mix a person or object into your art.

@kipporah Жыл бұрын

I ordered one of these sketchbooks finally, because I couldn't get it out of my head, we'll see if it's better than what I have. Thanks so much for all you do and I love it! Keep it up

@carlocatalano9662 Жыл бұрын

Our art gallery exhibits sketchbooks under glass, with large ipads on the walls which people can flip through en masse, & they can thus enlarge parts of the images for good looks at details. They even make page-turning noises as you flip through. It seems people really enjoy that, esp. with the real book there so close.

@TheScarnak Жыл бұрын

Love your stuff, would love to hear deep dive from you on the recurring patterns that emerge in your doodles. Like when you begin on an alien language, do you have certain subconscious rules that you follow that you've learnt look good. Or do they just come naturally. They always have such character and intrigue like they could almost be real. Attempts at it myself have come out looking more or less random. The same applies to your pipework, noodly appendages and other themes. They're very satisfying.

@recoveringsoul755 Жыл бұрын

I think he did a video on his alien language. Maybe it could be decoded and actually says something, or maybe just a jumble of letters

@velocichungus Жыл бұрын

I have a pocket sized travellers notebook as my wallet. It’s so handy just to keep notes (writing and money) and when you’re done just put the book on the shelf. I have an idea, goes in the book. Shopping list, in the book. Although, I might have to get a bigger sized one to put my story ideas and doodles in to take around town.

@recoveringsoul755 Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a CommonPlace book.

@artprojects_ Жыл бұрын

This was probably one of my favorite Squarespace drawings!

@peggygillen634 Жыл бұрын

Love the Endless Recorder. Table of contents is a nice feature. Paper is good. Does at times take a while to dry. Blotting paper is the key to this notebook.

@joeblankenship377 Жыл бұрын

Some would argue that sketchbooks aren't intended to be books of completed artworks. One thing I like about them is that I can close them and not be haunted by unfinished drawings. They weren't drawn in vain. They compile ideas that I can carry to a loose sheet of paper.

@peter_draws Жыл бұрын

Yeah I actually want to get more into this mindset with sketchbooks. The problem is that even if I do sketches, unfinished drawings, I often find myself enjoying the result of those, and valuing those just as much as more “polished” pieces

@walteredstates Жыл бұрын

@Peter Draws @Joe Blankenship I've been to an early Lister show where several of his sketchbooks were exhibited alongside paintings on the wall. They were just on a plinth - with a couple of pairs of white art handling gloves. Easy. It was just as unthinkable that anyone would not wear gloves, as it was imagining the sketchbooks were dissected! I would love to view some of your sketchbooks, Peter!.. but am in Australia, so: fat chance... also, doesn't seem a problem to me, liking your unfinished sketches! ; [)

@dark_gamer6678 Жыл бұрын

Peter Draws Sketchbook would be awesome. Id buy that in a heartbeat

@EMBODIMENTOFAGONY Жыл бұрын

1 million subs is near, I can sense it.

@RinTV2 Жыл бұрын

Oh wow, a friendly sketchbook/journal to go with my Peter Draws fountain pens!!!!

@ichirofakename Жыл бұрын

1. You can also say recto (page on right, 'front') and verso (page on left, 'back'), to sound full of yourself. 2. You can put your book in the Huntington Library where you can't touch it at all, wave at a (human) page who comes over and turns the page with his gloved hands.

@DaBunne Жыл бұрын

this draw-wing made me smile :)

@GirlGeekLovesStampin Жыл бұрын

This drawing was my favorite! Fabulous!!

@AliBerry Жыл бұрын

I love you Peter! Sending you the good vibes!!

@JessieSocial Жыл бұрын

I actually prefer regular ol’ computer paper for sketching. I tend to twist and turn my paper around for better angles.

@Edo_Marinus Жыл бұрын

9:00 The word for the back of a right-hand page (‘recto’) in a book (i.e. a left-hand page) is ‘verso’.

@FallenRobot Жыл бұрын

I saw the artist Mr. Doodle from the UK doodle all over his house and clothes and car and his doodles reminded me of your art.

@kitskitt5412 Жыл бұрын

Going to get my daughter this for Christmas. She's always asking for a new journal and I really like that you can just change the paper.

@martina7193 Жыл бұрын

She is really lucky to have you as a dad 🙃

@Icantinkrnlmao Жыл бұрын

Best gift ever

@Specters0rd Жыл бұрын

BEST GIFTTT

@AkJakolantern Жыл бұрын

A finished sketch book post dismantling and display could be put in sheet protectors in a binder, keeping them in order and stored neatly, and also keeping them more protected in between viewings.

@sunnycharacter Жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness! I still need your pen but would LOVE to have a Peter Pen AND Sketchbook! How fancy! 💙

@rebeccawhite2582 Жыл бұрын

I love the piece you just did! I just received my 2023 Hobonichi Techo. I draw a little in my Hobos , but am not an artist. I hope you are happy.

@Mote. Жыл бұрын

WOW! Your drawing this video is incredible. I like it a lot

@Ghost_Bear Жыл бұрын

I really admire your videos and art style. It’s inspired me to get set up to start my own art channel eventually💕

@TheNightowl001 Жыл бұрын

The original idea for a "sketchbook" was for sketches and ideas and reference drawings and practice for ideas that would later be incorporated into a finished drawing. The sketchbook really wasn't intended for "finished" art. That would be done on a separate complete piece of paper (or whatever the final medium for the ultimate work would be, whether board, canvas, paper, etc.; pen and ink works traditionally were intended for paper). You're not the only person I've heard express this, but I'm not sure where the idea that a sketchbook should be filled with finished artworks came from.

@ghoulchan7525 Жыл бұрын

KZfaq artists making sketchbook tours and other social media artists posting pages of their sketchbooks. And all of it was presented really fancy and asthethicly. Then it just became the norm.

@Gillysaurxx Жыл бұрын

Keep releasing sketchbook collections that we all can buy and keep on our coffee tables!

@dannyhengel7645 Жыл бұрын

I enjoyed your comment about how drawing in a sketchbook feels more comfortable and organic. I agree and have been pushing myself out of that comfort. I've been doing all this digital art for the past seven years, and all my ideas started in sketchbooks but were finished on a screen. these days I'm trying to push into analog more, and instead of saving a .png I find I want to complete a nice 9x11 Bristol piece and make prints off a master.

@pjbuchan6931 Жыл бұрын

Re obverse vs. reverse: for books and manuscripts (MSS), you can refer to the page sides as recto (right hand page) and verso (left hand page).

@paulmartinez9908 Жыл бұрын

Amazing, remind me of a Ralph Steadman artwork! Loved it!

@johnjewell219 Жыл бұрын

Great you tube sent you my way again good to see you are still going love your workgreetings from Australia east coast

@gameovr17 Жыл бұрын

Ur griping about showing ur sketch book reminds me of Larry David griping on curb ur enthusiasm. I was cracking up. Ur drawings r unlike anything I've ever seen. Sweet work man

@michaelmelling9333 Жыл бұрын

Another great/fun Review, thanks!

@ashleypauley6772 Жыл бұрын

The sketch book is so cool.

@fathernsonarttravel Жыл бұрын

Wow this is a great sketchbook.

@linsefton454 Жыл бұрын

First time I have watched one of your video's, recommended by a couple of YT people I watch, I loved it, actually lol with the quick draw 🤣🤣, I feel a binge watch coming on 🤣🤣🤣. Thank you 😊

@gemini_jack4927 Жыл бұрын

Almost a million subs! How will you celebrate?

@colorfulwater5070 Жыл бұрын

Peter Draws sketch book would be cool!

@JNDS.Creates Жыл бұрын

As your talking about people touching your books, my brain: “he should make an automatic page turning device!” Literally seconds later “there are page turning machines” lol I really like the idea of the whole page sandwiched in glass and viewable from each side. It would make for a very interesting gallery showing.

@SpaghettioH Жыл бұрын

You should disassemble your sketch books, scan them, and then make an online art museum (with square space?), then you can reassemble them and keep them somewhere to pass on to your children someday

@roochiee Жыл бұрын

my suggestion if you want to display pages in ur sketchbook without tearing the pages out is to take photo copies of the pages and then printing them out, you can change the size that it comes out to so you can blow them up as well. you can honestly do it at fedex or do it by ordering it online if you trust that. hope this helps

@rayjohnson9781 Жыл бұрын

Man! Bravo bravo, more , more ! 👏👏👏

@TheKatieLea Жыл бұрын

vid was super comfy

@mikaila_muppet Жыл бұрын

Hey pretty cool! Much love Peter ^^

@Winstonsmom Жыл бұрын

Sheening and shimmering inks really work well on this type of paper.

@recoveringsoul755 Жыл бұрын

I prefer the idea of a nice leather cover, perhaps with a flap that goes around the page edges, and removable, replaceable inserts. You could have different paper for different tasks, watercolor, markers, pencil, fountain pen. Different colored papers. I used to have a planner with a leather cover with my initials on a metal thing attached to the front. I would hold 2-3 months at a time in there. Not carry around a year at a time, just what I needed access to. There was a long range planner that was for a full year if I needed that. Depends on each person's needs.

@lisathaviu1154 Жыл бұрын

All of the things you said you liked about this paper are present in the cheapo Meade composition books. I usually use Lexington Grey in my Pelican, and it handles it just fine. Because I am a starving artist, it helps when it’s cheap!

@zippoamerika8794 Жыл бұрын

Peter, I lost you…I just found you again. I feel wonderful about this. Lets draw and share once again

@patemmack7205 Жыл бұрын

Looks like a great A5 version of a travelers notebook. If I can get Tomoe River paper and a grid option, I’m in.

@qquarnster Жыл бұрын

What's the bleed-through and show-through like on this most ink-friendly notebook paper?

@togetvj Жыл бұрын

Did you know you are a gif on Twitter? Well, more than one gif actually. How cool is that!

@gunsmokeandghouls Жыл бұрын

This is one of your better videos. Not too long and you mostly stayed on point.

@d1rtyd1sh Жыл бұрын

i like when he goes off point!

@gunsmokeandghouls Жыл бұрын

@@d1rtyd1sh Good for you.

@chrisjeremic9185 Жыл бұрын

Put your sketchbooks in some galleries for sure ! It all depends on the context of where/how it’s viewed but that allows your art to exist in a more immersive space than anything hung on the wall. And as far as people dirtying it up that almost adds to the piece over time as long as you’re ok with the idea of it being more interactive with the viewer

@lucaslowry1679 Жыл бұрын

Hey Peter 👋 I never usually comment but I’m very early lol thanks for the great content! I’ve been watching since I was a kid and you’ve always been great!

@peter_draws Жыл бұрын

Cheers!

@kraughers Жыл бұрын

I hear your concerns about seemingly destroying the essence of the book by cutting it up, but I also hear your excitement for keeping the character of a sketchbook with the leather cover of the notebook you were sent. having a sketchbook be cut and rebound into the same cover with a small extension on each page so as not to ruin the art and making removal more convenient would be a cool solution but I'm not sure how feasible it is

@erichunt5207 Жыл бұрын

The original Blade film might have a good visual of what you're describing for framing/hanging sketchbook pages. There are many scenes inside of an archive or library of ancient texts where that exact scenario you describe can be seen.

@anastasiajenkins2036 Жыл бұрын

I don't know if someone suggested this but you could scan your sketchbook and display it digitally on a screen that does a flip through animation every so many seconds - just a thought.

@amdza Жыл бұрын

You can always make a high resolution scan of your sketch book and hang up prints. Maybe display the actual sketchbook behind glass and have the displays around it.

@lanasemprit1475 Жыл бұрын

This is why I always check for perforations in my sketchbooks. Then I have the option to take a specific page out if I wanted to display it 🤷🏽‍♀️

@jttaylor245 Жыл бұрын

Not sure if anyone else said this since it’s been 6 days, but also could take each page out and put them in some type of see through folder small enough to fit the pages right

@UnderfundedScientist Жыл бұрын

Sun's like an exciting opportunity. Good luck my friend from the internet

@msalyssa6604 Жыл бұрын

I would like this video solely for the "quick draw pen slot" 😆 love it! ("That's safe, right?" )

@matthewbrookeart Жыл бұрын

Always wish the companies that make those journal notebooks would make pads with smooth watercolour paper

@recoveringsoul755 Жыл бұрын

It would be pretty easy to create your own signature with Hot Press watercolor paper and put that signature in there.

@JoeyTrejo10 Жыл бұрын

The Etchr Lab sketchbooks are really good - they use 100% cotton watercolor paper. They have a variety of sizes and offer both hot and cold press paper.

@matthewbrookeart Жыл бұрын

@@JoeyTrejo10 they are pretty expensive to get over to the uk I think

@JoeyTrejo10 Жыл бұрын

@@matthewbrookeart on their website they say they have free international shipping for bundles.

@durmgirl Жыл бұрын

I’m having visions of your sketchbooks as a poster flip through thing like that they have at dept stores. i wonder how big the biggest book ever is. Fun fact I learned today that made me think of you. Stephen King wrote the first draft of one of his novels in 1999-2000 entirely by hand using a fountain pen. So much writing ✍️

@durmgirl Жыл бұрын

Biggest book according to google is 16.40 x 26.44 ft 😳 Imagine one of your sketchbooks even half that size. Would love to see that!

@miabarton3993 Жыл бұрын

Easily one of my favourite internet people

@mute_ed984 Жыл бұрын

There is the option of book scanners, that don’t require to tear them sketchbooks apart. Can get them e.g Amazon. Maybe the way is to put those printed scans on display instead.

@owendubs Жыл бұрын

The hanging up stuff problem with drawing in a sketchbook is a tough one. I like to solve it with scanned drawings by making sure I can make prints to hang up but it's hard to make a good scan of a drawing that's still in the sketchbook so I have to cut them out. You know that clear plastic sleeve stuff they put expensive Yugioh or Pokemon cards in? If they made one of those card sleeve books but for sketchbook drawings I'd love to cut out everything in a sketchbook and scan it before putting it in the sleeve book so I could have the best of both worlds. Hung up prints of nice scans and a cool book to flip through that's protected by plastic so there won't be any oil stains is how I'd like a gallery of my stuff to be.

@JamesGowan Жыл бұрын

I really wanted you to flip to next page to see how the ink did or didn’t bleed through

@julesbarents1197 Жыл бұрын

How can you draw so good?

@Nonorama Жыл бұрын

everytime I'm at a convention, I flip through some sketchbooks and look for good drawings to be sold as "originals" and properly cut them out. They are nice in a sketchbook... but as an artist you also need to sell art and make money somehow. So it is important to document them, with a good photo or scan, before you take something out of a sketchbook :) But you do that any way ^^

@scouseflay8393 Жыл бұрын

great

@heartkendal Жыл бұрын

Like the poster rack at Walmart!

@gunsmokeandghouls Жыл бұрын

LMFAO

@daveprice5911 Жыл бұрын

I'd think maybe finding a way to access a high quality photo copier to make prints of your pieces for display could be one way to display them then. The originals safe in a sketch book, the prints out for display. But I can see how that might seem less 'genuine' to someone vs. displaying the originals.

@haileymacisaac5089 Жыл бұрын

One interesting way to view a sketchbook would be to put the pages in a display like they use in tattoo shops, or for posters in Walmart. You flip through the carousel of glass panes instead of touching actual pages.

@GemBonhamHorton Жыл бұрын

That coin thing was interesting

@morecoffee2463 Жыл бұрын

I just realized I can’t find your podcast on Spotify anymore 😢 did you take it down?

@fairclothjm Жыл бұрын

Peter, I also like platinum carbon ink. Have you used brush pens before? Not felt tip pens, I mean the real deal. I got a Pentel Pocket Brush pen recently and I am loving it. Cheers

@Tea_Mist Жыл бұрын

Its filled with new Tomoe River Paper new stock tomoegawa iirc. 68 gsm.

@UrielManX7 Жыл бұрын

This piece gave me the idead of a drawing of someone drawing a draw of them drawing a draw of...

@mirandag.3277 Жыл бұрын

it wouldnt really work in a gallery i suppose but if you wanted to hand someone your sketchbook to look at you can unbind it and put each page in a page protector and put them in a binder, then it'd still be in a book form

@wildmangeorgesrcchannel6916 Жыл бұрын

do they have paper without dots or lines? im on their site and i cant seem to find any.

@karma13612 Жыл бұрын

🖋The notebooks with the removable paper are called travelers notebooks, I think. I’ve seen them in other shapes like tall and skinny.

@TheProjectoinist Жыл бұрын

Hilariously, this company seems to be calling it an “Explorer Journal”

@sarahfisher6801 Жыл бұрын

You could get one of those notebooks that allow you to digitally transfer whatever you draw to your computer and make a digital art gallery of sorts that people can go through. When you talked about putting your artwork in between panes of glass so that people could see both sides, it made me think of the poster displays in stores. Is that the kind of thing that you were thinking about? Or am I completely off base? I know that digital work or even prints isn't always as good as the real thing because there is a certain texture and smell that you get with the actual original piece of art that you don't quite get with a digital picture or a print but it would keep the originals from getting damaged and/or ruined.

@MadebyDawn23 Жыл бұрын

Hey Peter how it is going? Just got my Ocean Blue Peter Pen, but i am afraid to ink it up and draw with it. I think that it is too precious. I ave been looking on Amazon about cheaper fountain pen, the Jinhao, and hongdian look great. Will you do purchasing or using the Diamine Inkvent Calendar this year? I heard that they are good.

@gunsmokeandghouls Жыл бұрын

Don't be "that guy/girl" ink it up! Pens are for using not collecting dust.

@peter_draws Жыл бұрын

I don’t know about that inkvent calendar thing, not sure what that is

@recoveringsoul755 Жыл бұрын

@@peter_draws Sounds like it might be an Advent calendar for pen and ink lovers?? Now I'm curious too