Watercolors combine well with colored pencils or crayons too. And it's very easy to take with you on location. It's the medium with which I color my world in my sketchbook.

I am learning to speak French. I make lots of mistakes, and I need to embrace the wonkiness. Just like I've learned to embrace the wonkiness when drawing. Even better, I now love the drawings that are wonky best

Over the years I’ve been teaching, I can’t count how many times I’ve been asked, “How do you develop a drawing style of your own?” The answer is: you already have a style, even though you may not realize it.

Today I am sharing a video from the archives. Let's draw our non-drawing hand!

You can do a drawing in just five minutes, but it’ll give you so much more: a little meditative moment, escaping from everything going on, an interesting moment of studying shades and shapes, and a lot of joy.

The pencil is a great tool, with wonderful features. When you add more pressure, you can get really dark areas, and with soft strokes, you can get the lightest tones possible. It's really kind of magic.

Today I am approaching my subject with the continuous line drawing. Which means I am setting a rule: I can't pick up my pen anymore, once I started drawing. Every time I draw the subject in a different position, I will try and do it in just one line. It’ll be a fun challenge!

Maybe sometimes when you want to draw, you don't know what to draw.
When drawing from observation, whatever catches your eye is interesting enough to start drawing it. And it's actually the other way around: as soon as you start drawing something, it becomes interesting.

Watercolor is such a versatile medium. It seems hard to control, but then when you play a lot with it, you'll get to know the material and its behavior better. You'll get more confident using it in your sketchbook.

Today I am letting you flip though my latest sketchbook.
I love flipping through other people's sketchbooks, and this is what I want for my upcoming book: it should feel like you're going through one of my sketchbooks.

Making a watercolor background can help to get over the fear of the blank page. You can do a bunch of washes on random pages in your sketchbook, to surprise or challenge yourself.

Today I am showing you the sketchbook pages I filled when I was in Paris a week ago. Going through these travel sketchbook pages brings me right back there! Come with!

In today's video, I am showing you the process of a digital illustration, done in Procreate on the iPad.

I can’t tell you nor advise you on what pen to use - it's too personal of a choice. But in today's video, I will show you one of my favorite pens, and how I use it in my sketchbook.

I love using brushpens.

It takes a bit of practicing to draw with a brushpen, so today, let's play with brush, ink and water.
I am not talking about brush markers, which are also great. I am talking about pens that are filled with ink like a fountain pen, but instead of a nib, they have a brush.

Today I'd like to show you a sketchbook I filled in November and December last year. It's filled to the brim with daily stuff, adventures, mundane and exciting... and all of it is part of my illustrated story.

When you want to capture a bigger scene than for example the mug of coffee in front of you, you might feel overwhelmed by all the information - where to start and how to translate all of it onto your page?

This is part 2 in the three-parts series about capturing a bigger scene.
Where do you start, how do you draw a scene that feels kind of overwhelming?

On my Patreon Page, patrons voted for the next Draw Tip Tuesday subject. The option that got the most votes: drawing a Bigger Scene.
There are many ways to do this, so I decided to do this in a three-part series. Today: Part 1.

Today I am showing you a Sketchbook from the archives.
Once I discovered the sketchbook habit (as in, keeping a sketchbook as a visual journal), a lot of things changed for me as an artist.