Sketchbook Tour - my August 2023 sketchbook

Welcome to Draw Tip Tuesday!

In today's video, I will flip through the pages of my latest sketchbook. It contains urban sketches, workshop demo drawings, personal moments, and experiments with all sorts of art tools.

My sketchbook is my happy place, and I hope that this sketchbook tour inspires you to draw every day, like I do. If you draw daily, the "pressure" is off, because there's always the next page, the next day. It's important to learn to be less precious about your pages.

We make up this ridiculous rule for ourselves that every drawing that we make should be very good - perfect even! While, in the end we are drawing because we love the process, don't we?

Sketchbook shown in this video:
Hahnemühle Nostalgie Sketchbook, Size A4, which is 21cm x 29.7cm, or 8.3' ' x 11.7''

The pen that I mention in the end is the Pilot Parallel pen.
It's a calligraphy pen with a unique nib design. Unlike traditional calligraphy pens that have a single nib, the Parallel Pen has two parallel plates with a small gap in between. This gap allows ink to flow through and you can create lines of varying thickness by holding it at different angles. I am liking the organic and expressive lines you can achieve with it and I will keep practicing with it.