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Sometime I feel like drawing purposely “bad” helps be do art so I know that I’m just playing around and not stressing on trying to make it look good and just having fun
Me too I have a designated junk journal for proportion studies, brain dump, sketching in art block, ugly stuff and cutouts of stuff I find interesting. So far it’s mainly doodles, a snowball (the bunny) painting, 6cm big with lumpy dried acrylic paint and crusty brushes and random stuff like a cat on a label of sth I got for Christmas, a rocket riding astronaut from a packaging of socks, stuff like that. I have no shame about that and nobody will see it
@@ssavaarthearing you talk over a video is so relaxing. I listen to it while I write or draw or do homework and would love (if you want to) if you could make more long form videos.
As a mixed media project, the QR code thing is interesting, for sure. And I get it, text instructions in tutorial books can be cumbersome. But if I'm buying physical media, I'd want the full package as physical media. I wouldn't want a book like that to become obsolete the second the internet goes out or the videos are lost to server issues or whatnot. I can appreciate the ingenuity though.
I had an interactive kit like this when I was a kid. It was called Paint Like Van Gough or something like that. It came with oil pastels and each page in the book was based on one of Van Gough’s drawings. Coincidentally, the first activity was also a self-portrait. (Mine looked cursed.) I had completely forgotten about it until my mom found it a few weeks ago. I was pleasantly surprised, both because my drawings were better than I had expected and I actually made it to the end of the book. (I would abandon most activity books a few pages in.) My favorite drawing was the one where I was tasked with drawing a bed and I made the headboard a literal head and the footboard out of feet. I’ve always loved surrealism… I think it would be cool to redo the book now to see how much my art skill has grown since childhood.
I wish there was a pdf version to buy and printout for people living in countries where getting anything shipped costs a bomb. If the book is $50, shipping might cost another $25 for me and customs in my country loves to take 50% of the item cost so I'll be paying $100 for this :/
I like the addition of both traditional and modern methods put together. The use of the videos make it easy to understand and follow along. Sometimes the words on the page on their own dont help. And just watching videos alone makes them harder to follow personally. It was fun just watching you follow along and casually sketch!
This looks *really cool* . I wish that there were more books like this that are easily accessible to beginners. I'm going to send this to my art teacher, and I hope that she looks into it. Thank you for sharing!!!!
there absolutely are! if you like that kind of style of book/journal/learnigng to draw for beginners, look up books by Jake Spicer , he's got a few! My favorite is "You Will be Able to Draw Faces by the End of This Book" as I was struggling to find a book on drawing portraits simple enough for beginners, but detailed enough to understand how to draw a portrait and not just copy what you see.
Nice video! I think the concept of having video lessons within the book is cool, but i would honestly prefer that it come on a dvd rather than a qr code. If the website ever goes down or the videos are deleted, then that information is lost. Either a dvd or having transcripts of the videos inside the book i think would be preferable to me since if i buy an artbook, i’m buying it to read, not to watch
This seems like it’ll help with some of the fundamentals I’m still struggling with, so I went ahead and bought it. I love how it’s something she’s making herself, and it seems like she really put a lot of effort into making it as helpful as possible.
That book looks really cool! It has a lot of activities similar to the activities my high school art teacher (who is great and has helped me grow a lot with my art) has us do.
Thats because it’s based on a very old book called “Drawing on the right side of the brain” by Betty Edwards. Her method has been adapted by innumerable art teachers.
This would be so helpful for those who want to draw, but dont know where to start and how to improve. Like knowing something subconsciously, and not being aware of it until someone explicitly states the thing.
I love your long form content! I can't draw to save my life, and even so, this notebook sparked my curiosity. Just today I was thinking of you! The sky had the most GORGEOUS clouds, and I thought, how do you actually _paint_ clouds with _watercolor_ ? I wonder how Scott does it? I loved your video of how to draw eyes! I'd love one about watercolor clouds hehe 🤭🤭
Hey scott just wanting to let you know i have been practicing drawing and i have been having more confidence in myself and to try bigger and better things
Thank you for sharing this book. I like the looks of it. It looks very helpful. It is sometimes hard to pick out a book online when you can't flip through the actual pages and see the table of contents, etc. I bought a book last year that I thought used regular pencils. It arrived and it mainly has projects for COLORED pencils. After a few months, I reconciled myself to using it The book you reviewed looks more like what I was looking for. PS I also have replayed some of your shorts. Some of them have some tangible content. Some are purely inspirational, where you share stuff you have gone through, that we are experiencing or may experience in the future.
That was honestly the best self portrait I have ever seen. It’s amazing wow I don’t know how you do that 😂 Also I will definitely try and get this book. Or art class. Seems like a great way to practice and learn (which I think are basically synonyms, because you learn by practicing. Or maybe synonym isn’t really the right word for that maybe they’re just rather similar words… I don’t know. Anyways I’m rambling now. I love the long form videos, keep up the good work!
Just made an order! If this gets me to finally start drawing again it will be worth every penny. Thank you for sharing and supporting another person in the art loving community ❤
I loved the book and this review I felt the urge to fill those blank spaces. I loved the idea of a sketchbook that guides you through. Thanks for sharing this.
Omg I had an art teacher and we just coloured everyday well I had a different art teacher the next year who took the class seriously and helped a lot of students. Thank you Miss Blevins❤❤
I could definitely see this being something I would have loved as a kid first learning to draw. The qr codes to instructional videos is a really neat idea.
Its after midnight and just scrolling along..i need this for my niece...she's struggling with drawing and wants to be perfect..she needs this in her life
The concept of this book is so fantastic! I think the price is well worth it-you’re getting a book and an online course that complement each other. It’s genius!
I'm definitely getting this for me and my girlfriend. We've been working on our art together, and this will be a great way to make it more fun. Thanks for the recommendation!
I love this video! I’ve been watching your content for a while now, so when you showed the chair, I instantly thought “that’s a bad tangent.” XD You have helped me improve in many ways, thank you. :)
Wowza, that's an expensive book! It's definitely more than a book, which I'm sure contributes to the price, but it's more than my low-income wallet can handle. I'm really tempted, though. I'd love a concrete refresher on some of my skills.
That is sooo adorable!!!!!!!! But, I don't have interest in drawing other people's faces, I have interest in filling details, it's like meditation for me. Especially detailing buildings in cities, I just started.
I absolutely understand the wanting to draw in an art teaching book. As a kid I would use a pen and go over the numbered step by step contours and guidelines while referencing the end result drawing, I would end up with five drawings of the same dog. I never realized I wasn't even following the rules of the book, I was just happy drawing and leaving my permanent art in a book.
I would very much appreciate a video about negative space, as I really don't understand it at all, outside of, "the area you don't touch". I've been complimented a few times for my "use of negative space", but I never knew how to react because I had no idea what they were talking about.
@@ssavaart Yes, yes I did! My apologies for not leaving a comment (I'm a lurker by nature), but thank you very, VERY much for touching base. It helped solidify my understanding of negative space very much... until I watched a video about "tattoo fails", where the narrator commented something about using negative space to shade with, and that lost me entirely. However, outside of that (and also not knowing if the narrator was just BS'ing), this video helped me realise just what I'm doing that people have complimented, and thus opened my awareness to something I may be able to play with in the future. Rather, something I very likely WILL end up playing with in the future. Thanks for that :3
I want to get this book at some point but there's one problem though... In where i am from our method of paying when ordering online items is pay on delivery meaning we only pay if we receive the items first and with no defects or any damage...
This looks like a really great learning tool. Unfortunately I think I'd struggle a bit with it- being a leftie, my hand would end up covering the reference! 😢 I guess I could challenge myself by drawing the WHOLE thing upside-down. 😂
I love the idea of an art-class-book! It really gets me excited to get started learning. Unfortunately shopping is almost the same cost as the book itself (€30) 😭 I'll have to wait until there is an EU distributer.
Hey Marcus! I’m working on a digital download option- those international prices are just killer! It’s actually done, I’m just texting it before I release it :)
“I hate drawing hands” is relatable, it’s a love hate relationship for me. It can be fun but it’s frustrating sometimes. Easy on small formates and hell on big scale. I remember drawing my A4 Wednesday Addams realistic drawing of her playing the cello, I spent the longest on that hand and the face…
Is there a way to get to the videos w/o the code? I can't afford $400+ for a new phone that can read the codes just for a diy art class... otherwise I am really interested in this
Hey! It’s all QR but the videos link to each other, so you just need to scan once and you have access to all of them. I’d be happy to email you the first link if you buy it so you don’t have to have a phone. Phone free- I love that!
Omg im soo early I am usually not able to watch them this early bcz i live in india and uaually scott posts at ungodly hours lime rn it 5:50am i have not slept yet lol
Wow I'm so tired of an artist so for me I've never really had the opportunity to take many art classes and from the ones I remember when I was like I wouldn't say grade school but like elementary
But I love this video it's amazing I wish that when I was in school the teacher is were a lot better I was autistic so I didn't get the best luck but this is amazing
