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Sketchbook for Fun: A Stress Free Process of Filling a Sketchbook Spread

teacher avatar Studio Funshop, Artist • Illustrator • Painter • Teacher

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      0:43

    • 2.

      Materials

      3:20

    • 3.

      Coming up with Ideas and Getting Started

      2:45

    • 4.

      Sketchbooks: Show & Tell

      4:14

    • 5.

      Sketching: Going with the Flow

      22:37

    • 6.

      Painting: A Simple Base Layer

      22:24

    • 7.

      Drawing: Adding Imperfect Details

      21:37

    • 8.

      Next Steps

      1:05

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About This Class

Looking to have fun and play in a sketchbook? Learn one of my favorite ways to use my sketchbook! 

Making art doesn't need to be perfect. In this class, we will play in our sketchbook, and go with what we're feeling to complete a sketchbook spread using mixed media. All skill levels are welcome.

You'll learn:

  • my go-to materials
  • how to come up with ideas
  • my mixed media process
  • relaxed sketching by combining simple shapes
  • simple painting with bold colors
  • drawing imperfectly to add detail

Plus, I share a mini sketchbook tour to show more ideas of what you can make in your sketchbook.

See you in the class! :)

-Kelli 

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Studio Funshop

Artist • Illustrator • Painter • Teacher

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hi im kelli.

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1. Introduction: Hello, I'm Kelli. I'm an artist who loves to illustrate things, make paintings, explore different mediums. I especially loved sketchbooks. And in this class, we're going to be taken the Stress out of sketching and just have Fun with it together. We're going to complete a spread in a sketchbook. And I'll take you along on the ride from start to finish. From how I come up with ideas to how I sketch, paint, colors, and experiment 2. Materials: What will you need for this project? We'll be using mixed media. Something to draw on. Big sketchbook, tiny sketchbook. This is a sketchbook I made just like with some old paper. Or you can just draw on paper if that's all you have. Now, I like a small sketch. I really liked using when having something small was less intimidating and it takes less time to fill up page. So that's benefit of using a smaller sketchbook. Bigger sketchbook. Say you've been using a small sketchbook for awhile and it's starting to feel like just too tight and you don't have enough room to move around or to draw things at a larger scale and get more details. That's a bigger sketchbook is great for that. The next thing you're going to need is whatever materials you want to draw or paint with. So here are just some colored pencils that are, these are actually Prismacolor pencils. Also have these wax crayons that I'll might use as well. If you're using paint, you'll need a palette. This one is a ceramic palette. You don't have that. You can just use some scrap cardboard or a plate from the kitchen paint. I have some Gouache paint that I enjoy using. So that's what we'll be using today. Then you also need brushes. I have some medium size brushes, and I also have some smaller brushes. Some smaller brushes. If I needed for using paint, you'll need something to hold water. I like to use to water containers because the first one I use first, so it gets dirty and then this one, I'll dip my brush and after so it makes sure it's nice and clean. Some napkin, paper towel to dry your brush if you need it. Or clean up any message. And don't forget a pencil, whichever you prefer to use. If you don't like using Pencils, you can use a pin 3. Coming up with Ideas and Getting Started: It can be hard to come up with Ideas. Blank page or like just don't know what to do or too scared to start because you don't want to mess it up. That's exactly why I love sketchbooks because it's like low stakes, medium. It's like literally made for making mistakes, for experimenting, trying things out. A place to make ugly things. But ugly things can be pretty so it's really just depends on who you are. There's a number of ways to come up with ideas of what to draw or make, paint, create whatever you wanna call it. Have like an itch in my head of something I want to try out or explore more. Whether it's like trying to figure out how to draw trees in different ways. Or maybe I saw a picture of a cat and like, Oh yeah, that'd be Fun to paint some cute cats. Let's give it a go. Take a look around you very thing in your room or in your space that you liked the look of and want to draw. Or you have any interests or hobbies that you like a lot in, are interested in trying to draw or communicate a message. About. Third, drawing. I like to take photographs of things and things I see things I think are interesting. So today we'll be going through my phone and picking out some in drawing those and using that as our reference images. There are many, many, many ways to come up ideas. So if you're having a tough time, I said just pick something, try it out. If you don't like it. Something else in, try again and repeat until you have something you really, really like doing. But anyway, there's a point where you guys stop thinking about it and you just got to do it 4. Sketchbooks: Show & Tell: Here are a couple of my sketchbooks. I just wanted to share some pages because they help you have Fun and play with or without overthinking. Or like much stakes. Sometimes I can get in my own head, everything I make has to be perfect, and that's just not true. You can make mistakes. You can try things and have them come out looking not as you intended. But yeah, the sketchbook is a place I think we're you can just draw whatever you want and just have Fun with it. This page was from photographs from a weekend or so in my life. I saw chicken, I saw Frog, saw some flowers, played some soccer. So I just looked at my phone, use those photos as references. Syndrome and my sketchbook. Now, on this page of my sketchbook, I had just found some old Art Supplies and then I was the deciding if I wanted to keep it or not. So I just tried it out. It was some Colored Pencils, some like the standard Crayola crayons in some watercolor pencils. So I just played with them on here. That's another way you can use your sketchbook is to test things or decide, do I liked this material? How does it mix with other materials? You can see I use the same reference image on my phone to draw both of these frogs, but they came out completely different, looking based on the colors I chose and the type of material. I used. Sort of choices in the composition of making this one a circle. This one not making this just one color versus a bunch of colors. First, given it a nice happy smile, we're not including that over here. It's a way to test things out and see if you prefer doing something one way over another. Alright, so this page in my sketchbook, I actually source the images from public domain sites that you can find online where you're allowed to use the images for your own projects with no copyright issues. Please bug ones. I also sourced from there. This page. I actually was using plants that were in my room or that a mix of plants that I saw in my room or I saw on the Internet. And I chose to simplify them in like make them abstract and focus more on like shapes versus trying to draw them super realistically. Keep in mind, if you're referencing images, make sure you have the right to use them. Be aware of copyright laws so you don't get into any trouble. 5. Sketching: Going with the Flow: Okay, So the first thing I'm going to do is just do some sketches with the pencil. And I'm usually look out my phone or my computer to use the reference images. So now I'm just going to sketch it out with the pencil lightly. And you can sort of simplify what you're looking at until like general shapes and then connect those shapes to make something more complicated looking. So when I sketch, I usually just do it pretty lightly. And if I mess up a little bit, that's fine. I'll just like draw on top and try to see if I can fix it a little more. And not everything you draw is going to turn out exactly as you imagine. Sometimes you make ugly things doesn't mean you're abed artists just needs he made some you made something that didn't turn out how you wanted it to. You can try again another day. So let's see. I think I want to change my ear position a little bit. Now what I'm doing this, I'm not trying to make it exact. I just want it to be somewhat resemble what I'm trying to draw. I think sometimes a little imperfection or if you mess up proportion a little bit, it can add character to your drawing. Because if you need something to look photorealistic, why not just use the photograph? Fun of drawing is that you can add your own sort of touch to it. So now, once I got like the rough large shapes and have like general proportions down, I'll go back over and sort of redraw my lines, but with a little more confidence in a bit darker. Now, I'm looking at this, trying to see. It looks like I think his legs are crossed a little hard to tell from a photograph, so I'm just gonna guess. But I think his legs are crossed, something something like that. Possibly. Not 100% sure. It's fine. Alright, I think that's good enough for the sketch. Now, I'm going to work on another sketch of something else. Alright, now I'm working on, but we'll see how this goes because I don't have a super, a lot of experience drawing boats. But we'll see what we can do. Now. I think this boat is at a slight angle, but I'm just going to pretend I'm looking at it straight on. A little trick for proportions. If you can take a look at the base of the boat of what you're looking at. It, they'd be like, how many boats do I estimate would be the size of the sale and then make the sale about let's say this is 1234. Roughly five more boats. I could do 12345. So that's one little trick I use to help me with my proportions. Now, if like in this little bows are super detailed. So if there's a section where I'm just like, really don't know what the heck's going on. I'll just fudge it it pretend like I know what's going on. And just like make it up in my head. So let's see, I think something's going like that. I think I see a couple of Windows windows on here. Once you have the general things in, that's when I usually add some more details. And I don't mind if I'm it's not perfect. Not what I'm not trying to get perfection. I'm just trying to have Fun drawing and sort of over perfecting things. Sort of loses the for me personally, I start to lose a little bit of the Fun. Got a boat in a cat. Because I could add little more detail to the boat. I think I'm going to Let's go with it. Alright, next thing. Alright, now I'm going to try to draw this little scooter I saw. I see that sort of like at an angle. So I'm going to draw that angle. I know I have. Let's just run the general scale. I think it's about that tall. Then coming up at this angle. I can see like handlebar sort of section. I'm going to draw the wheel. I'm going to draw the back wheel. So this is a little thing. I haven't. This shape above it connects to that shape, which connects to this shape. Arcs. Then I have a seat connected. Here. You can see I'm drawing the different planes like this is the top plane that you sit on the side. This is the little front. If you can imagine it 3D. Write down a little handlebar, light, some sort of mirror. Everything I'm drawing is just like circle, line. Like rectangles. Just a bunch of shapes connected to other shapes. And basically that's, you can draw anything by thinking of it like that. What does this is the exhaust. I think that's what it's called. Don't quote me on that. Not a car person. Oh, and there's a little basket back here. And I'm just drawing basket cube. You can kinda mentioned that's a basket. Yeah, I think that's enough information. All right. Onto the next thing. Now I'm moving on to the chicken. So I'm just going to sketch the body. Then another shape for the tail, or imagined the head would be beak. A little, wherever the heck that thing is called Now I'm going to start connecting these shapes to form. A chicken are lost due to add the feet. So there's like these two sections of feathers connected legs. And there's a link directly behind the other leg. Then we have little feats that stick out like this. Now, depending on how much detail or how much you decide to stick with the correct proportions. You can play with the style. And typically, if you don't stick with the exact proportions or you simplify a lot, things start to become more simplified and abstract looking or cartoonish, whatever you want to call it. Alright, let's add some feathery Details. And I'm not making it exact. Just some rough ideas. Alright, it looks good to me. Now, I think I'm going to use the same reference and draw this again and see what changing a few of the variables can do to how it looks. All right, so I'm just going to try again slightly different shapes. You can see this guy is looking a bit different. This one, I tried to do a tad more realistic in the proportions. Sort of the eyes farther from the beginning is little smaller. The size a little more simplified and round closer to big in a more simplified shapes. So we'll try it later when we add colors or paint or whatever materials we want, will see how the color effects, how these guys turn out. Alright, let's try drawing a flower. So I'm going to look at my orchid photo I took and start drawing in the big shapes. And usually flowers or plants. You can really mess up. The portions are like doesn't have to be exact in majority of the time, no one's going to notice because flowers are like organic forms. Usually it comes out looking all right. No matter if you mess it up or not. I'm being real rough with this. I'm not sure exactly what's connected to what here. I'm just going with my best guess. Based on the shapes I'm seeing. These sort of connect. I think that looks good to me. Alright, so I think I'm going to fill up this space with a little lizard. I took a photograph of Now this photo, he's kinda camouflaged into the background. So it's a little hard to see exactly what it looks like. So I'm just going to use my imagination best guest, figure it out. I want to make sure it fits in here. If I draws head by itself, it might make it too big that he falls off the page on accident. So I'm going to start by drawing the line from the nose to the back of the tail. Then Base everything, all the proportions off of that line. So the tail, it goes in this wave form. Then the head started, hopefully. Then sort of here's where one of the legs are. Then think this is about where's other legs are. Going to say it's about this. Wine. Make us till little longer. There's a bunch of lines going on here, so I'm gonna erase some so that I don't get confused. This is sort of the middle of his back up here. This is where his leg comes out. Something like that. These weird long don't know exactly what they look like. So we're just gonna make that up. Sort of combined them to look like that. Then on the other side. Same thing but just different angle. Up here. Next arm. Oh, this one's more. Handshape. 1234. Feel like yes, 123 for I think he has five fingers. 12345. Unsure. So we're just going to leave it looking like that because I don't know. Then I think I only see like the top of his shoulder over there. Alright, now let's work on his face. Let's simplified version of him. I don't feel like drawing all those little detail, so we're going to leave it there. I feel like here I can add something. So I think I'll try. I think we'll draw another orchid in this spot, but slightly smaller scale. So I did the same orchid but picked one that's at a slightly different angle. So you can see how it's skewed a bit and you can see it the better tell where there's like dementia. And I guess because you can see the underside of things. Alright? 6. Painting: A Simple Base Layer: So now I'm going to get started with some Gouache paint. And you can, this is the palette I'm going to use. You can see I have some old paint on here. And that's because Gouache can be reactivated with water, even if it drives, which is pretty cool. Or if you want to like very thick and painterly without having to mix in water and wait for it to get wet again, you can just use tubes to squeeze out paint, just like you would with like acrylic. I'm going to start with this brush, which is a filbert brush. I'm just going to dip it in some water. And we're going to, I think I'll start with this and see add some water until paint. Real ethical gets all wet. And I'm just going to paint a Base Layer on this cat. Now, the more liquidy your water, the less solid the paint is gonna be. You can kind of push it around with your brush. You can play with sort of how the ink dispersed in the water. If you layer on top, it'll keep getting darker. And if you don't want any weird blotches, you kinda have to just push it around with the brush until it evens out. And we'll let that dry. Now, I recommend if you're painting to start on the left side of your sketchbook and do all the painting you want on there. And then move on to the right side so that you don't have to worry about while you're painting on the right side of your sketchbook. The left side is drawing. You don't have to worry about getting your hand in the drawing paint. And I suppose if you're painting with their left hand, you would do the opposite. But I'm right-handed, so that's how I do it. I'm going to switch paint now. And usually when I clean my brushes, I have a dirty water container in a clean one. Can usually I'll wash first in the dirty one, then rinse and clean one, and then dry it off if I need. And that's how I do it. And you'll notice a difference. Once you paint a bunch. This one get really murky. But you'll want to have to change out your water as fast because you can rinse it in this one which is cleaner for the boat. I'm going to play with thicker paint. So I'm just going to open this. If I can squeeze it out somewhere. Next. Looks a little darker than I want. So I'm gonna mix it with white. I'll just add a tiny bit of water to my brush and then mix these together until I get the sort of color I'm looking for. Okay. So I think I'm going to paint the bottom of the boat this light blue. You can see how much thicker and opaque that goes on there. Now if you run out of paint on the tip of your brush, just refill it Think your brushes too thick, too big for what you're working on. Switch to a smaller brush. I think I'll try a slightly smaller brush to get these thinner lines. I'm just going to take the paint off this one. If you think you're going to use this again real soon, just let it sit. Get a smaller brush. If you think you're won't use this sun, wash it out so it doesn't dry on your brush. Alright, so now I'm going to do these thinner lines. It's much easier than before. Now, this is starting to depart from our reference. But that's okay because I think it's cool when some somethings like half from a reference, half from your imagination, and you can sort of change it to be whatever you want. I think I'm going to add the what is it called? The railing. Now, you need a thinner brush switch again. I'm going to wash this out. In trial thinner brush. I'm going to try to do the rope. Let's try this one out. It's pretty tiny. I think I'm gonna go back to the bigger brush in paint on the other side of my Spread. So I'm just painting in the shapes on this flower. Even though my reference is white. I don't care that much. Because I've just feel like painting it blue. So painted blue. Just painting in all these shapes. Mixing a tiny bit of white, whatever color you're using can make it a shade lighter so that the petals don't blend in too easily into each other and you can tell them apart a bit. If you feel like you're paint is not going on as smooth as you want. Try adding a tiny bit of water. Help it glide a bit. I switched brushes and edit a bit more white to paint this tinier section. Now I'm going to paint the top of the boat a greenish color or the sale, I guess, and slowly fill in paint the base layers of all these other things on the sketchbook. Whatever colors I feel like. Just reactivating this green I've already used just going to put a light layer over the sale I'm really liking this color, so I think I'll paint the other orchid this color. I think I'll just do it. Wash over the whole thing. I can still see my Pencils. So later when we add in color pencil or crayon, we can go developed some of the details. But since this has, we've mixed good amount of water with the paint, you can still see the pencil underneath it, which we can use as a guide later. All right, Here is the reference I'm looking at. And to get this teal color, I'm going to mix the blue and green I'm using together and see if we can get something similar. A bit of green in here that I didn't want. So I'm just going to wipe it out as much as I can. Move it over here. It's not an exact color. I think we need less green, more blue, and a bit of Wyatt, but I'm happy with it. So I'm just gonna keep using it. And we're just going to lay the color on the general blue sections or teal I'm in that we see in the reference paint around any other colors that are probably there. Like the whites. I think that's all the blue I see in there. Now, for the black areas, I think I'll activate a dark blue and see how that looks. The wheel. Funny, we'll, this is super what cell. So I think I'll take a break here and work on the other side while that dries. So I don't risk the to what paint bleeding together. So this looks like a Fun Colored to use for the Lizard. So we'll try this out. And it's just yellow mixed with a tiny bit of blue or green. This rooster can, the colors can be divided into main sections, which based on a reference is this yellowy feathers here, these dark brown feathers here. The blue of the tail, the red of this thing and Magick around the face. Then there's another bluish color for the beak, and then yellowy color for the legs. So those are my main color block sections. I'm thinking about when I'm filling in the two chickens. And I might change the colors depending on what I'd like. Instead of red, I might use pink or orange. Instead of yellow. I might use this more highlighter, green. Just to play with the colors and see what happens when you combine different colors and just have Fun with it. I'm simplifying this guy's overall color palette by instead of making like through these sections the same, instead of different colors. And I'm choosing not to make this part red. Just for an experiment, I think I might make it either pink or this yellowy color. I made the lizard. I kinda went out of the lines, but that's alright, will just adjust. Not too worried about keeping things perfect over here. Now you can also Layer paint on top of other colors. You can see how layering this pink color on top of the orange. You can see the orange a bit underneath it compared to here. And the whole things a bit more opaque. So feel free to play with that as well. I'm changing my brush depending on the size I need it. So I just switched to a bigger brush to paint in this larger area. You don't have to do that, but it can if you want, because first of all, be quicker and you'll have less little tiny strokes. I'm just roughly Pentagon where I went before. Alright, so I think I'll work on the dark feathers now. This is the blue we used earlier. I just didn't mix as much white into it. So let's see how this works. And you can play with changing the direction of your brush, the angle of your brush to get different strokes are different shapes that fit. Looks pretty good. I think I'm going to change the color tiny minute for the tail in the nose perhaps by adding wife. All right, we'll try to get this small spot with this brush by putting it at an angle. Turned out pretty cool. I think I'll use this lighter blue for this chicken. Now. Now that this green has dried, I'm gonna go in and fill all the dark areas with this sort of blue color. You can go over Layer paint in areas you want. Some more definition. Is a little bit of the light blue for the mirrors. And sort of the interior of the wheels can even use it. Some of these like gray white areas. That looks good to me. Alright, so now I'm going to take a break and let this paint dry, and we'll come back later with pencils and crayons to add a bit more detail. If you feel like it, you can play with layering more paint on certain parts of your sketches. If you want to play with that before we get into the Pencils and stuff. So I'll see you there. 7. Drawing: Adding Imperfect Details: Now that we let our paint dry, we're going to start layering on top with dry materials like the Colored Pencils. These are Prisma colors or wax crayons like this. If you don't have these specific materials, any sort of colored pencil you have or CRAN you have would work. If you don't have that. Just try layering paint on top of the pink. But I'll be using these. I'm going to start off with the scooter. I'm going to try to add some more definition in detail by using this black. Later we'll try using the wax crayons. Wax crayons are thicker, so it's gonna be a little less refined or less sharp. This is going to be more detailed because you can get it tinier and more precise. So this is less precise and more texts tree. So let's start with the pencil. I'm just going to start with making some lines in places I think could stand out more like the light and the shape of the tire. Can definitely add some lines to show the rearview mirrors. I don't know exactly how this is going to turn out, so I'm just playing around with it. So any of the areas I think I want to try to add a little more definition. I'm just adding some lines. Or even if I want to add some more details like different shapes that I did was enabled to complete. So I could draw these little shapes. More definition in the wheel. And I could even choose to color in whole areas that I think will look better as this color I'm using. I could color it all in like this. So this could come out looking horribly wrong. But I don't know until I try. So we're just going to try it. I can always try drawing this again if I'm not happy with it. So let's work on this back. We think there's some area of shadow on this little thing. Then I can add more definition to. We'll make sure we can see this little light. Alright, now I'm drawing the basket. There's some bigger. So we're metal pieces I didn't include earlier. Add in there. Then I can use the tip of my brush to draw the, the lighter wire. So there's this sort of rectangle. You don't have to draw exactly on top of your guide. Just use, you can, if you realize your pencil sketches off, you can just use the colored pencil where you think it should go. So you don't have to trace it exactly. I'm just going to fill in these roughly doesn't have to be exact. Because I think a little imperfection at some character to the drawing. Alright, that's looking cool. Let's see what happens. If we layer on top of the green. Let's pick out a color. Sometimes drawing lighter colors over darker colors don't show up super well, but we'll give this a go and see how it works out and see if we can sharpen up the sharpen and brighten up the green area of the bike. If you notice. Areas where there's like more of a highlight, you can focus on them, making those brighter Or if there's areas of paint that didn't get in completely can just color it up. And sort of pretty seeing how the pencil and the paint layer. I think that's enough detail for me. So I'm gonna stop there on the scooter and our bike, whatever you want to call it. And I'm going to move on to the other little underpinning sort of type things. We've got Started. Let's see what happens when we take these, which are bit thicker, like I said before, to work on the orchid. So let's try a green and see what that looks like. To add more detail, I'm just going to add some definition to where the petals overlap. You can try rotating your CRAN to get the best point. I think. See what happens if I use different one. I'm going to color in some of these areas that are yellow and my reference finished up these outlines. Now, you can also combine Pencils. So let's see if I have a green pencil. If I want to sharper. So here, I want these lines to be a bit different. Can do that. So just by adding a couple of lines and coloring in a tiny bit of color, we added a lot of detail to the orchid that makes it a little more recognizable. It's not exact representation, but It's close enough that people can understand what it is. Let's layer onto this guy. So I think I'm going to draw in his little white dot and a little line for the beak. And I'm just gonna give lines or I think it could be helpful. Now let's see if we add green onto the tail to help show off some of those feathers. Now we can also sort of take a lighter color and draw on top of that green to smooth it out in blended. Now, let's see. I think I'll take a sort of this light orange in color on top of the yellow. Maybe take a pink, go over the face. What happens if we do that line with the green? I can also add some texture and shadow. See what doing. A lighter orange over the blue. You can use line to add some information Sort of putting this for some darker colors are just playing around. Can even add sort of imaginary shadow to the ground. What happens if we outline it? Sometimes this goes bad, sometimes it works. It's kinda cool. I don't got chicken. Work on the lizard. So I'm going to, for this one, I'm going to keep things pretty simple. Just use this green color and see what I can do. Using a bigger brush or a bigger like Drawing material. Keep to a loose because you can't get as tight Details. Also makes your drawing look a bit more loose. Take this yellow and see if I can give it a little extra. I can barely see it. Never mind. Let's take this and see if we can give it a little shadow. Extra dimension. Alright, let's see what Colored Women use here. I'll just see what happens when we use, sort of think I'm gonna a little darker than I want. Let's try. I'm just going to color over the pedal that's behind the other to make it a bit darker, so it feels like it's falling behind. I think I need to use this because that's already there. It can't go back. So I'll just color on top. Color and this one with this blue. Now let's find another blue color in the other one. Sort of gives it a bit of dimension. With the different shades of blue. You don't have to refine it all the way. So I just stopped when I feel like I liked the way it looks, I think it's good enough. So that's when I stop. Alright, we got two more to do. I've been saving this guy for awhile because as nervous to do him because cats can be hard. So I don't think I'm gonna do all his textures and stuff. I think I'm just going to add some line work to add some sort of information. Some lines to represent the eyes, nose, mouth, ears. Like that. Sort of what the ears are going on. With scourged So these lines I'm adding sir, to show help show inflammation of like what's on top of what this leg is. This is like sort of a shadow on top of the land underneath. Since this leg pops on top there. Sort of go like that. You can just use some lines to show little toes. And say we want, I want the cat Colored to be a little more solid. So let's see if there's a color in here. I'm going to go for this teal. I'm going to see what it looks like if I color on top here, that's kinda cool. I think I'm just going to color over everything to make it a little more dark. If you change the direction of your pencil to match the direction of whatever you're drawing. The body is going this way. So I'm drawing this way and then puts going this way. So I'm drawing this way. I think that adds some extra information in like sort of movement. So I loved, I didn't color in the insides of the year. So that shortest shows this is the outside nuts inside just by having color a little bit different. All right. Last but not least, let's work on this boat. So I kinda like how simple this is. So I'm not going to add a lot. But I'll work on sort of making sure some of the details are added. Color in these. This is supposed to be railing. This is exactly correct. Most likely not. But I think people can guess that it's about it can add some little waves. Show It's boot. Alright, there we got it. We're done. 8. Next Steps: We did it. We finished our sketchbook spread. I would love for you to upload your spread when you're done and edit to the class projects so we can all share what we're working on. Very excited to see those. I really appreciate you guys taking my class. Thank you so much. And hopefully I'll see you in the next one. And if you're not done, but I'm done, you can keep going. You can keep layering. Tried doing paint on top of the dry materials and then layering on top of that. The combinations are in lists on how you can use these materials and there's no wrong answer. You can stay in touch with me. I have a newsletter called Art Notes, and I also make YouTube videos at studiofunshop. Just visit my website on my profile page. Alright, bye