Welcome to another Sketchbook Time, a series of videos where you'll get to see me working in my sketchbooks! Sometimes I'm drawing something specific, sometimes I'm swatching different colours/palettes, and sometimes I'm just having fun! You can choose to draw, paint or create along with me, working on your own projects as I chat to you in the background, or just lose yourself in these relaxing videos and the satisfaction of watching a page or two of a sketchbook being filled. I hope that they inspire you to get your own sketchbook out and allow yourself the time to play and experiment too! This time I'm using my new tin of 24 Derwent Drawing Pencils to fill a double page spread with patterns, purely for fun and to test out these pencils a little more.

Watching other artists practice in their scetchbooks really encourages me to try new things and add to my process of making art.

Hello Natasha! I don't think you need to worry about "umms and uhhs" because it just shows that you're thinking, and that equals calm, thoughtful content. I've always found your commentary to be just like having tea with a friend while also having sketchbook time together- very congenial! So please keep going, and only do what you want to do. I think you'll find we won't mind a less than "perfect" delivery!😊💗

A lovely Sketchbook spread, Natasha! I personally like your way of narrating your videos, please don't stress too much over it.

The umming doesn’t bother me at all , I love listening to your videos while I sketchbook along!

I like your natural style and way of narrating 🌻🌻🌻

Best back ground music on any channel!

I like hearing your natural speech and thought process.

I use both a fixative and tissue paper between the pages of my drawings when using pencils of any kind and especially pastels - wax, soft and oil. Really love your work and watching you work, very inspiring.

Thin cardboard stops the transfer, I use cornflake packets cut to size love your channel so much, just have fun with it xx

Please don’t worry about your word choice, you are a pleasure to listen to and I love the content. Thanks for all you share.

Your speech patterns are quite charming, much like having a chat with a friend. Leave the perfect speech to the "professional speakers" and the speech writers.

This is good for warm up techniques....and to keep wrists and arm more relaxed.....enjoy these colors...like video to see your sketches it gives me ideas to fill my sketch pages...mikelle art mom👩‍🎨🎨✍

I spray some of my pages with Krylon Kamar Varnish to keep them from smearing. Seems to work ok. It smells for a couple of days, but that goes away. I’ve also used parchment paper (the kind used for baking) between pages. I tape it at the top. This works like a charm. I would bet that tissue paper or tracing paper would work as well. I just got my box of Derwent Drawing pencils this week and am pretty excited to try them out soon! They’re so gorgeous! 😊

And I didn’t noticed any ummms until you mentioned them and even after that it wasn’t a problem at all. Your talking sounds relaxing.

I like your natural narration, love the creative catch up podcast you do and I love the way it feels like artists hanging out together. I have you on while I work. Thank you for the wonderful inspiration and just relaxation it brings, looking forward to more and yeah don’t stress about editing.Also love the calm music. Xxx

L9ve your sketchbook series. You can place a piece of paper between the pages either side.

I would love Natasha Newton housewares, bedding, nursery, etc 🤍🤍🤍🤍

Hello, I just found you a few days ago. Since then I've bingewatched your videos! I love them so much!! Your style, your color-use, your explaining, yout thinking-process, your voice, your sketchbook, everything! ❤ I love colored pencils for years, also in mixed-media, but I have seen and never used them like this. Thank you so much!!! 😘

Love your videos. They are so relaxing to listen to and watch . And has made me get out of my comfort zone and am trying new mediums . Thank you

Thankyou for this video. Please keep doing them. It's really helping me figure out how to make marks and use new mediums.

This is just beautiful!

I really love your voice, very kind, enthousiastic and natural. So don't worry. 😊💖

I just got these pencils. These soft muted colors fly me to the Moon!!! I'm not a pencil maker sooo, I may be incorrect but I think they transfer one page to another because they are highly pigmented and lay down like butter. To me, they look like velvet. Fixatives are invaluable. I watch Coloring with Alena. She uses them alot. I love that aggressive Russian style she has and her color combinations are amazing. 💮❣💮

Thank you so much for your lovely videos. I’ve wanted to buy these pencils for quite awhile, but I kept hesitating. After watching your previous video, well...they’ll be here on Wednesday. I put a piece of card stock behind the page I’m working on, and tissue paper between the pages when I store the book.

Love it!!! About transferring, I place a sheet of thin paper between the pages. Not ideal, but I live in Brazil and fixatives are either hard to come by or really expensive. What I learned in art school was to use hair spray as a fixative, but I don’t really like it. Hope this helps!

This looks soo beautiful and relaxing!!!

I love your Sketchbook Time videos! I learn a lot from them AND keep adding items to my wishlist. Ha ha. Keep up the great work! Thank you! 🙂

Your sketch book pages are very cute themselves.

I love all the patterns that you create

I love your work flow.

Hi,This is an older video now, but i often watch it as i love these pencils, wanted them for years but other things keep cropping up and they get forgotten . I will get these in the next couple of months no matter what. I have about 3 or 4 but I just love the sanguine and terracotta shades. Keep a piece of greaseproof/freezer paper between your pages or just when drawing to stop the transference. It's an inexpensive alternative but gives ut a vintage feel as older photo albums always had a sheet separating the pages of photographs. You can use permanent ink and draw or stamp your own designs on this paper to make it more attractive and personal. I love lino printing too so it's nice to make your own designs, in your case, maybe bird stamps in your style. You don't need to use printing ink, thy work just as well will a Stayzon permanent ink pad which is available in a ton of different colours. Your style of art would look amazing using lino printing and it's so relaxing, you can get printing ink in your colour pallette shades, from printing suppliers or Jacksons. Amazon tends to keep just primary colours but wedgewood blue and green look beautiful when printed.

We all um and ah. Don’t worry about it!

I love your videos ... because you are a great artist and because you are so transparent, real, and honest. Keep up the great videos ... just as they are. With regard to pencil transference, between pages, I don't use fixative. I just put a piece of white copy paper, under the page I'm working on so that if the pressure of drawing causes transference it only affects the piece of copy paper and not the drawing or page, of my sketchbook, below the page I'm working on.

Putting thin paper, such as tracing paper, protects your pages. I haven’t tried to use a fixative.

Very relaxing watching you.love it!

You are absolutely fine! I appreciate you so much and not all the aahs and umms in the world would change that!

I like it! I always enjoy your videos. Thank you for sharing.

One of the things I love about your videos is that you’re natural It’s like you’re one of my close honest best friend ❤, So whatever sound you make; no worries I’m A ok 👍🏻 and enjoying your art and voice 🪴🥰

Happy New Year Natasha! Please don't worry about ummms or hesitations! I don't think anyone is expecting you to be a robot or a news reader! I love your videos because it feels like I'm chatting to a like minded artist freind around a table or in a coffee shop - somthing I havent been able to do in aaaages because of covid etc. Thanks so much for showing these pencils, I think I've got some in a draw somewhere that I havent used in ages - I'll have to go dig them out asap! x

Learning a lot from you! Thank you! :)

Hi Natasha, I just found your channel and love your style and thoughts about products. I have been thinking the Derwent pencils over for a while, and have had them sitting in my "save for later" for some time. But after watching your swatch video of them, I really got the impression of how smooth and beautiful they must be. So I ordered them! I like the fact they are open stock as well. I cant wait to try them out for myself. I really enjoy your videos and am glad your so open about your process and wanting to have your videos as naturally you as possible with less editing. Yay! Very enjoyable!

Hello. I’m new here. I’m not an artist but have been fascinated watching you doing your swatches on the last three podcasts. It’s very relaxing watching you. Thank you 😊

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Beautiful and inspirational.

Love all of your videos 💜 no worries about “the um’s”! I say it a lot as well I think it’s fairly common ⭐️...

I like to tape a piece of glassine paper in between the pages. Your work is beautiful. I just found your channel and have been watching you videos for a couple days...can't get enough lol

Hi Natasha wonderful page! I use tissue paper between the pages of my sketchbook, either attached with washi or just loosely. And this way I can utilize tissue paper that comes as a wrapper for items I buy, the advantage is that it doesn’t matter really if it is bit ripped or has creases a bit, and it doesn’t bulk up the book like a normal paper would. I usually cut the wrapping paper down to sheets in the size bit smaller then the sketchbook and store them in an envelope and then pull them out when i turn the page. Hope this helps. In me experience fixative works on loose sheets and maybe if you pass hand over the page it wouldn’t smudge but i don’t think it really helps with transferring by pressure.

Your videos are so lovely! I wouldn't do any additional editing. Your aesthetic all around is perfect. Umms and Ahhs are a part of normal speaking language. I don't think you have anything to be concerned about at all. I adore you just as you are. Cheers! xoxo

Happy New Year! My tip - I place heavy paper between pages to prevent colour transfer.

I've been loving your videos and I am a huge fan of these Derwent Drawing Pencils. Something that I have done in the past and sometimes still do is I place a thin piece of onion paper or a vellum between the pages to make sure that there isn't any transfer to the opposite page. I have never tried a fixative but it might work.

Love this Natasha, i find the same thing with so much editing! I'm not sure I could talk as easily as I paint or draw with my own videos! You do so well, your um and ahs are fine too. Lol @ unexpected noises, *brrrrap! * 😂

Hey lovely, I’m just catching up with your wonderful channel. It’s lovely to have you creating while I work. The umms and urms are fine, I don’t notice them and it makes the videos ‘real’. For pencil pigment transfer a sheet of glassine, acid free tissue paper or I’ve used baking paper before and it works. Also although I don’t use a fixative, I know some artists use the Winsor & Newton one. 😘 x

Lovely video. Agree with other comments, don’t fret about polishing your videos to a high shine. I like the conversational nature. More approachable. Also all the computer editing time takes away time for you to create. How about placing a piece of wax paper or tracing paper between the pages where you don’t want transfer? You could reuse the sheets.

I've been obssessed about these pencils ever since I saw your review about them. The colors are so beautiful. I'm trying to rational buying them😭

Happy New Year, Natasha! 🎆🥰😘🧡 I have sawed off the handle of a round paint brush (for decorating doors, windows etc.) and use that for small areas. But mostly I use an artist's broom with very soft bristles to dust off anyting on my desk. For the transfer of colour i don't really have a tip other than just using one side of the sketchbook if you always press hard. As far as the "umms and ahs" goes, I really don't mind them in your videos. It seems natural to me. However, I do mind them in my videos! I always remind myself of the fact that editing takes the longest out of the whole video making process according to some of the biggest YTers (not that my videos are anywhere near their standard or yours for that matter). I enjoy all your videos and look forward to more this year. Oh, the i-cards can be added at the end when you choose the videos showing at the final minute of the video. You can also add them later but I am not sure how because that has changed recently.

not sure if it's the same thing but you can get those blower brushes in camera lens cleaning kits

I lay a thin layer of tissue between the pages even if the drawing is a simple graphite pencil drawing.

Glassine or tracing paper is great to put between the pages. Fixative can be a little unpredictable and spotty, and doesn’t always stick well to wax. Some people use mod podge a type of water-based sealant… But I think glassine works the best

Hi Natasha artist Very nice and variety Drawings and good colour shades I think this is your exprement drawing making a good painting Natasha Wear is your tiny Beautiful Sparrows in your painting. How are you you and Dominc.Thanks for showing this art vedeos.

This may be a veery fringe media, but if you like muted soft colors, Kuretake Zig Real Brush put out recently a collection called smoky colors. There is a KZfaq channel from Japan called Kaiteki Art that demo that smaller set.

I should have said earlier, just let it be natural! I know how difficult it is to talk and do something, my attention is on my active and therefore quite a few ummm and pauses happen. I love your videos and, of course, artwork.

um, yes that's um fine. Just keep painting that's all we care about. We are wondering when we will meet Dominic though. You can't hide him forever or perhaps he can't hide forever.

Don’t worry about your “ummm’s and uh’s”. I wouldn’t worry either about the random background noises. These don’t bother me at all. ❤️

To prevent drawing transfer, I do use Kamar Varnish, it's stinky but it works on anything including watercolor and gouache. However I'm not sure that works if you're coloring on the backside of another drawing, in that case I might just stick some tracing or parchment paper between the pages for extra assurance.

regarding the transfer problem, some people uses baking paper in between pages....

Hi Thank you for showing this. I find that rotating the pensels when gone to thick, I can find a new edge and make thin lines again and not sharpen as often ;-) Have any of you tried that?

I stick copy paper or tracing paper between the pages. Fixative definitely works but I hate using it because of the fumes and I don't always have the time to go outside to spray a page. There is a product called spectrafix that is a liquid fixative, I haven't used it but I've heard others have had good results.

Hi Natasha, I don't know if someone has already told you, but as a fixative for pastels and chalks it works well even a simple hairspray - it does not have the terrible smell that professional fixatives for art have and it costs very little. About your "hm" I love them, don't cut please. Those videos all cut, and cut, and cut are so cold, almost stressfull. Instead yours are so kind and cozy. Have a lovely evening :)

Colour pencil seems to transfer mostly when drawing on the next page (or the one after that). I cut two pieces of fairly thick drawing paper to the size of my sketchbook and keep them between the last two spreads. I don’t use fixative in my sketchbook for several reasons, the most important (and unexpected) one being that it seems to change the properties of the paper, also on the backside, as I found out doing an ink drawing on the back of a page sprayed with fixative - the ink bled right through the paper which never happened to me without fixative!

Wax paper for the transference?

I find when I use the Derwent superpoint all my coloured pencils snap a little at the point. I try not to sharpen to such a fine point now.

I am so curious to how these feel compared to FC Polychromos

I prefer you being natural, inclding the ums.

I do not mind the ums at all, it sounds like you are speaking directly to us, instead of overly rehearsed. Just be natural, nothing wrong with that :)

Fixative or sheets in between