How to fill a sketchbook in 12 hours 

You can see how much effort you put into this love the video, you are really underrated man. Keep doing what you do 👍

"Just draw in it, homeboy" is going to be written on the first page of every sketchbook I own from here on out.

I'm an actual professional artist. Those CalArts sketchbook aren't really sketchbooks, they are a form of artwork, they miss the point of a regular sketchbook (what you have) which is to explore ideas, better your skill and generally mess up. My sketchbooks are all pretty ugly at the core, but they're helpful. They help me to get ideas out of my head, to get shapes right and to find the right color combinations. I know some artist work with sketchbooks, but they use the sketchbook as a canvas. (Marco Mazzoni comes to mind) But yeah, you figured it out yourself in the video :D

I have 3 sketchbooks. I call them: "Hope" "Realisation" "Dissapointment"

other people’s comfort zone’s: faces, fruit, flowers... him: *mEChs*

"My sketchbooks aren't good" *has drawings of intricately detailed machinery*

Beautiful stuff!! This really reminds me of the last three days before I sent off mine. MAJOR crunch time. I see you referenced my sketchbooks and honestly, your approach is way more similar than you might think!! People assumed I preplanned and composed every single one of my pages in advance but that’s not quite true: I made a list of skills/experimentations I wanted to demonstrate. I’d refer to this list if I was feeling uninspired but otherwise, I’d just kinda go for it. Like you, I kept to one theme per page which helps create a unified look. And you say your stuff wasn’t organised but it was!! 100% calarts worthy. I know for me and my classmates, once we finished our books, many of us went back in to fill gaps, add notes, decorations, colour etc. This is what gives our stuff that “polished” well planned look, but it’s all afterthought. It’s not like we know what our pages will look like! I agree that sketchbooks are a safe space for our art and that Calarts sketchbooks don’t quite fit that category seeing as they’re designed to be looked at but truthfully, that is how I draw even if people don’t see my work. That method IS my comfort zone. Many assume I have a hidden trash book or something but all my crappy doodles are on my iPad or scraps of paper lol. Best of luck to you with your work! This was a great vid and you have a new sub :)

I really like your art aesthetic, looks beautiful

The RU-vid sketchbook looks more like a portfolio, while the average person’s sketchbook is filled with their ideas and rough concepts and just general creative nonsense

Woah, hold up, where are all your views?? This video was beautiful and inspiring. I already got out a new sketchbook with plans to attempt to finish it in a day. Your editing is incredible and super entertaining. I hope YT picks this video up and starts showing it to everyone because you deserve it for this much effort.

Croma: people can feel really overwhelmed from seeing everyone's perfect sketchbooks... SO LETS MAKE ONE IN 12 HOURS!

Drawing perfect sketch books is prob the most useless way of learning how to draw

You're so underrated, wtf-

omg thank you for speaking on this! those unrealistic videos put so much pressure on me to make the perfect sketchbook, when in reality, a sketchbook is like what you said, a safe space for experimenting and making mistakes. working on the "perfect" sketchbook just made me less enthusiastic about making art

Wow, that's an impressive amount of art! Personally, although I do have some sketchbooks that are just for quick drawings, I really like having one that's really nice and clean! That's actually where I like to put my "finished" art (well, as finished as it's gonna be, I don't tend to like spending more than 1-3 hours on one drawing). I'm a scientist so I do art just for fun, I just really like having a nice sketchbook!

This ended like a really good 80s movie, “...and this one...this was a good day.😎”

So true that the act of sketching anchors the moment in your memory like nothing else does.

I can’t stay being creative for a day, at most I can only do 1 to 2.5 hours. I just realized that I’m missing the point of what a sketchbook really is. It’s supposed to rough and raw and just, you know, ideas. It’s supposed to be a tiny space in the universe where I am allowed to create. The keyword here is allow. I am to allow myself to create, develope, and grow, and the process doesn’t have to be perfect from the start. Sketchbook is just like a journal, but in the form of visual and images. I guess I just needed to be reminded that I am also allowed to express in however and whatever way I could, through sketches. I’m glad I found this video :) Thank you.

Me: why is my back so bad Also me; 6:41

My high school art teacher always said to just scribble out the first page of the sketchbook, or even the first few pages. Best advice I ever got. (I always use the first few pages to scribble on when I have a pen that doesn't work, or to do color swatches)

This has motivated me to use my sketchbook more shamelessly! Thank you for the good message!

as someone totally not rushing to finish a portfolio for grad school, this was super inspiring

Oooo Love the Post-it patch head idea!!!

I love how at the end you said that it was a good day

So happy to see another Singaporean artist making it big on RU-vid. So rare to see one of us on here.

Love how you’re watching Stardust crusaders in the background

I love to see how diverse every sketchbook tour is but it’s always the same. It’s like their brains are neat and so should their sketchbooks

I really love your drawings! You're amazing! I prefer drawing freely than being pressured to create a perfect sketchbook. I rarely see that in artists here in RU-vid nowadays, so thank you for sharing this with us! I'm also happy that I finally got to see someone else using the Hi-Tec C as their drawing medium (or G-tec where I'm from). 😂

This brought such a good perspective to me about this subject. Putting so much pressure into something that should just be relaxed and simple Is just absurd, thank you for making this, what an incredible video

A couple of year back I used to fill 1 sketchbook per 1 or 2 weeks, it was really fun, now a days I pass days whiteout drawing. My sketchbooks where super messy as one (usually the right one) Page was a drawing or multiple ones and the other one (left page) was for thumbnails, quick little drawings messing with color, water color and various materials. I tried to had some clean sketchbooks with each page being a whole planed drawing, and that wasn't that fun as I hoped as I like to do full illustrations and all but having a full sketchbook just for that would stress me out more than making me have fun (too much Pages to look into) so I kept the sketchbook for messy and sketchy stuff and single pieces of paper and my computer for more finished stuff. :)

What I've come to find out while being in the journal subculture, is some will use the journals to help plan an artpiece, and some will deliberately create the whole artpiece in the book itself, kind of in a given genre of sorts.

"and this one? this was a good day." i love this

Thank you for making this experiment and video! Early on in my sketchbook keeping, I was so discouraged and anxious about working on my own books after watching many, many CalArts sketchbook videos ( I've just graduated art school AND I still feel that way sometimes!). I'm just now finally letting loose in mine and it's a dream to just draw in them as you do. Not saying they aren't beautiful books because they are, but the videos definitely do not account for and glorify the hours, "bad" drawings, and off days that we go through when working on art or even our sketchbooks. And like you said, sketchbooks are safe places to experiment and study and learn! I hope your video reaches many creatives so they can absorb your wisdom too :,-)

GO AHEAD MR JERSTER, sick video and insane mech sketches!

Cool video! I'm glad RU-vid recommended your channel

I agree those "sketchbook tours" are art books, not sketchbooks. Sketchbooks are supposed to be messy, have grocery lists, mistakes and a few great pieces.

I need to know you draw mechs so effortlessly!!

A very good day. Well done on producing something so cohesive and creative in such a short space of time. Impressive!

I imagine you get some real gems by consistently putting things out in such a fashion. Must also be good for muscle memory:

this is the channel that gave me my confidence back lol

Honestly I can’t thank you enough for this video, I’ve been seeing a lot of sketchbook tours and each one of they’re pages are masterpieces while my sketchbooks just consist of bad anime fanart, thanks for encouraging me :)

Thank you for this video!!! I have been wondering and fretting about this exact thing for years! Simply perfect and very helpful to my ability. I have noticed that when I approach with confidence, the art tends to be better over all. Regardless of planning or pre thought.

I love the idea of having a sketch book with the bed art and one with everything else or the private one.

"Im sure i can draw as well as that" Well thats quite a cocky assu... **shows sketchbook** Oh ok

A cool trick for the first page is to leave it blank. That what I always do. It's good clear intro to your sketchbook

Rly liked the video, thought I might as well share my experience for anyone interested.. (regarding the sketchbook for calarts, character animation) I applied to calarts (character animation) last winter and actually got in to start now this spring 2020. Regarding the sketchbook, I’ve actually already gone to a preparatory art school here in Sweden 2 years, I basically already drew a lot. And my “sketchbooks” didn’t look anything like the one I sent in for calarts. I litterally started on 7-8 new sketchbooks until I started on the one I sent in. Okay haha I’m not very good at explaining my thoughts but let me put it this way: In every sketchbook there are a few pages I’m like “daammm that’s pretty good tho” and basically that’s what I tried to do with that calarts sketchbook, just cause I wanted to get in rly bad lol. And also just adding personal things here and there (idk if that helped at all though but might help you “stand out”) And also can I just say I never thought I would get into Calarts tbh (specially seeing everyone’s sketchbook here in RU-vid 😂)

Firstly. Your sketchbooks are everything you said the other sketchbooks were lol Second. To combat first page jitters I either start in the middle or back of the sketchbook. Sometimes I just draw on loose parts and paste them inside. :) Or draw with my tablet and paste them in.

Beautiful work 😍

I just came across this video by chance, WOW. This is AMAZING! I love how you make this video so casual yet I was so impressed by it. Xoxo

Man when you see him out on the camera picking up his glasses I felt that. Before I draw for a long session I always grab things and in each action I'm mentally preparing myself to go hard for a long consistent time

a sketchbook can be whatever you want it to be - unfinished, messy, experiment, clean, organised... heck mine to encourage me to draw different things I turned it into a comic. No real plot, occasionally messing around with different shots, and rough sketchy as all hell. For me it was better than doing pages dedicated to hands, dedicated to feet ect... because I'm also a writer it's teaching me to tell stories visually and it's been fantastic. You do what you feel like with your books! However - If you're trying to do it for industry purposes... make sure you show your dirty roughs! Your messy ideas behind your peices. That will land you more jobs if you can show your process than only a book full of finished peices. All design industries want to see where and how you find inspiration, something art schools don't teach you when you're there.... but damn should. Your art is beautiful and your process is incredible, the skills you have built up are spectacular and been able to see how you think through your roughs is super wonderful.

Great video! I’m just starting out but drawing with your videos playing in the background boosts my confidence!

i absolutely love your art bro, just everything, the mechs, the subway sketch @4:25 .. wow dude

The vibes in this video were just immaculate

6:58 love the sparrows! Two cuties.

For some reason, I needed this today. Thank you.

bruh very cool, cool to see and great voice over also you are extremely adorable

Such a cool video! Maybe I will try this as well one day. Your art is amazing btw :D

I’m completely obsessed with your drawings, but drawing watching Jojo really make me feel so... i don’t know, maybe in love??

I am going to start my first sketch book. So great of youtube to recommend me this at the perfect time. Loved it

This channel is so underrated, you are very inspiring 👏👏

It's funny, when you actually time yourself you discover you draw a lot longer than you thought. Sometimes more than double the time is spent on drawings that your mind thinks. Like 12 hours is a long time but if you truly enjoy drawing it actually flies by far faster than doing other activities. Like I draw 12+hours a day but I could never watch a show that long for example.

Amazing sketchbook man !!!🙌

Great video and very good ending Very nice.

This is very cool!

You really inspired me!!thank you so much

Talent for drawing and short filmmaking

It looks so beautiful

u ended the video nicely man! i smiled a little and was really motivated and inspired!! okay bye gotta draw now

Man ur channel is sooo good, keep going

Your so talanted this is amazing

Those perfect sketchbooks are what make me scared of drawing in my sketchbook

As an industrial design student, my idea of a sketchbook has changed drastically. A you pointed out all the correct points early on in the video, quick, ideation, visualizing your thoughts. But you didn't quite actualize those ideas, a sketch should be non stop. Limit yourself to a certain amount of time. For a concept sketch page I limit myself to 1 hour, which includes side views of around 10-12 sketches, with marker. Using pencil is a big mistake, you have the freedom to erase. Don't stop sketching, the second you stop is when you start thinking. Keep moving, ideas come and go instantaneously. At the end you will have a large page of ideas, and more than likely the ones that seemed good in your head, when on paper, are shit. In industrial design the quality of the sketch doesn't matter as much as the idea. But there is a certain charm to the sketches. Just some of my views :) Keep sketching! Edit: I didn't really clarify my main point. Your sketchbook should not be perfect. Nowhere near infact, it should be an ugly piece of shit when you look back through it. It should be (I shouldn't say 'should be', what expert am I?) just a collection of quick bullshit. This is why sketchbooks are inspiring, they are just to SKETCH in, not to make a damn masterpiece. A regular assignment for my field, is to come back the next class with 100 pages of sketches, do you think they expect them to be perfect? No, its a sketch.

This was a great video man. Entertaining and inspiring. You should be getting more views and subscribers. Keep it up man.👊🏿

It also helping you grow by this practice, trying to fill a sketch book.

When yiu find an underated youtuber so you support them with whatever it takes

Type of sketchbook?

I learned if you skip 5-10 pgs in then start sketching then it's easier mentally for me to relax

The conclusion is so sweet 💛 I love this video, really good ! Bravo

Wow you get up early xD think I’d have only had 2 hours sleep by then. Awesome video

I really wish I were comfortable with mechs, I'm comfortable with people and there's only so much you can do with that

Nawww that last line made me smile a lot, this was lovely 😊

Wow! You're great! Your drawings are beautiful. Loved it

I loved this video a lot.. very chill, very relaxing. And your art, is marvellous. I'm so glad that I found your channel.

Listening to “still untitled” while you’re work, that’s tight

There's a difference between a sketchbook and a Calarts application sketchbook. Sketchbooks are messy, they're for trying out new ideas, warming up, getting through a block. Barely any pages have actual full artwork on them. Calarts sketchbooks are filled with finished artwork front to back, every page, to show your ability to work in different media, be creative, tell stories with your art and show the jury you're what they're looking for.

Love the ending!

One of my favorite videos wow

awesome work!

"this was a good day" wish you many more of those :)

Your sketches are beautiful! I really like the diversity in drawings :)

lol feel the struggle with the first page. thats why i almost always start at the 3rd lage or even somewhere in the middle and fill the first pages on a later time

I think your old sketchbook is perfect too

okay you deserve WAY more subscribers, this video is very well thought out and you can see the effort. i have thought about this topic so much too!! awesome video 🔥

I thought this was like a tip for all the students rushing to get their sketchbook filled 12 hours before the deadline.

the whole reason i never applied to calarts was the aketchbook videos. They're such idealized versions of what people think sketchbooks are supposed to look like and it so discouraging.

Mmm-hmm yep... Have I subscribed to like ten artist RU-vidrs in the past week instead of creating my own art? Yes. Am I going to do it again just because the entire video--especially the outro--was very inspiring and also well made? Yes, yes I am.

You inspire me a lot! Thank you

You deserve more subs with this drawing and editing skills

I love how you have jjba playing in the back