Sketchbook Tour: A Four Phase Recipe for Developing Your Sketching Skills

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4 ай бұрын

Sketchbook Tour: A Four Phase Recipe for Developing Your Sketching Skills
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This video is a tour of my first sketchbook. The video also provides a four-step guide for those of you who do art for a hobby to improve your drawing and sketching skills. The four phases I describe here can be especially useful for beginners who would like to develop their drawing skills.
The following are the four steps/phases shown in the video:
Step 1: Practice line drawing and shades: This is just pen drawing to learn basic shapes and shades. More importantly this phase helps you to be confident and comfortable with sketching and helps you to make drawing your habit. Simply draw the things you would like to draw. As I mentioned in the video, the lines could be messy and lack discipline. That is not a problem at all. You will eventually draw much better if you keep practising.
Step 2: Practice free line drawing without using any references. Just draw from your imagination. This is a really relaxing and enjoyable exercise. Let the lines flow and develop into beautiful sketches. I usually start with one object, like a bin, vase, or a fence and draw everything else around it.
Step 3: Introduce colours. Once you have practices sketching, start colouring your sketches. Use a simple colour palette to paint your drawings. I use a basic Cotman watercolour set of ink and wash watercolour painting. Most of the time, I do not use a lot of colours. I only use a few colours for all my sketches.
Step 4: Gradually move to complex objects. Draw objects around you. Select objects with odd shapes and sizes. Find interesting combinations of objects to draw. Your drawings do not have to be perfect. The whole objective is to enjoy the sketching process. That will be a formative experience that helps you to improve the quality of your drawings significantly.
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@CastleMc 4 ай бұрын

This is not typical of anyone's "first sketchbook." Your work is precise and expressive, and you clearly honed your skills outside of a sketchbook, because there are very few errors or false starts in these drawings. The "sketchbook" looks more like a publication prototype with digitally scanned and edited drawings, even in "Phase One." I'm not commenting to diss you; many artists keep both "working" sketchbooks and others for more serious or polished works. I'm commenting because people new to drawing should not expect to achieve these flawless results. Drawing initially requires lots of practice and some failures and mistakes are inevitable and totally normal-especially with an unforgiving medium like ink.

@chamilrathnayake 4 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for the comment. I really appreciate it. I hear you. To be fully honest with you, I skipped a number of pages in this sketchbook that had some sketches that didn't look as good as the ones included here. The sketchbook took about a year to complete, and I used this only when I'm really motivated and relaxed so that I can sketch with minimum errors. I draw on anything I see, including my university notebooks, meeting notebooks, papers I read etc... :). So a lot of experimentation happens outside sketchbooks. 🙂🙂🙂

@michaelsigler5820 23 күн бұрын

Beautiful!

@TheMysticalFruit 4 ай бұрын

Truly beautiful❤ you should be big, a tip, just try to get many shorts out and maybe that will give you a subscriber boost, I hope 🤞

@donnareilly1312 4 ай бұрын

❤

@AshaDrawsHerself 3 ай бұрын

Amazing sketch ❤

@anacarr4795 17 күн бұрын

Beautiful. Can you show us how to do it?

@chamilrathnayake 17 күн бұрын

Hi Ana, thank you for the comment. Absolutely, I've been trying to create videos to share the techniques I use. I've posted two ink and wash videos. This could be useful 🙂 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nr6iet1926yYfYk.html

@Isha_tiwarii Ай бұрын

Beautiful artwork.

@chamilrathnayake Ай бұрын

Thank you very much 😊😊😊

@pranavgawade4713 4 ай бұрын

Wow really great art ✨

@chamilrathnayake 4 ай бұрын

Thank you very much. I really appreciate the comment :)

@mashedpotato579 4 ай бұрын

I am a big fan of inking but it always overwhelmed me so bad to even start drawing. Thank you for this video, it make me finally pick up my pen today!

@chamilrathnayake 4 ай бұрын

I am delighted to hear that this video gave some inspiration. Believe me, the more you draw, the easier it gets :)

@helhely1294 4 ай бұрын

So beautiful sketchbook 🌹👍

@chamilrathnayake 4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 😊🙏🙏

@NamalPradeep-ln1sp 4 ай бұрын

Excellent bro...

@chamilrathnayake 4 ай бұрын

Thanks brother 👍

@sumpengnim5705 4 ай бұрын

Im gonna try water colours now :)

@chamilrathnayake 4 ай бұрын

I would love to see some of your work :) I'd say line and wash is a great way to start watercolour. That's how I started :)

@Angela27red 4 ай бұрын

Do you use a pencil to sketch first then use the ink? Great sketchbook tour so motivating

@chamilrathnayake 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment 😊 I don't use a pencil because I don't really follow a reference. I start with a reference, but move to free drawing after I start. But I think that a pencil outline could give you more control when you start with the pen.

@TheMysticalFruit 4 ай бұрын

I love your art, but you should upload more shorts, trust me it will help but it will still take time to get big

@chamilrathnayake 4 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for the comment. That's really encouraging. I will definitely post more shorts.

@lapun47 2 ай бұрын

Nice sketchbook! Good tips, but I'd rather hear your voice than read and listen to music.

@chamilrathnayake 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. I have to admit. I've been too shy to record my voice. But this is something I want to do (and I know will greatly enhance the videos). I have another sketchbook nearing completion. I'm going to give it a try next time :)