How to Improve your Sketchbook! // Ideas to fill your sketchbook

Do you have any tips to share about sketchbooking?

Remember y’all, there is no such thing as a perfect sketchbook! You might draw something you don’t like and that’s okay! Just use sticky notes to cover it up (if you really want to hide the drawing)

I feel like noone is tslking about something that i'm looking for to know😅😅😅😅

I love this so much you are precious AND SO ARE THE BUGS <33

This was great I really loved some of the ideas they seem really fun

Love the advice from this video, it really spoke to me. But one thing is really bothering me....
Jel, have you heard of a game called Bugsnax? Charming little game, worth looking into, but the style of the bugsnax is EXACTLY like how you drew these bugs here. Like, that pillbug has a bunger's face.
Thank you, anyone who reads this. I just had to make it known. I love bugsnax, and seeing the bugs here made me go feral lmao

now i wanna draw bugs with cute eyes

and there is a stupid fly on the monitor while you draw bugs lol
i sometimes draw the same things over and over again, could be pages of one thing, in college a whole sketchbook could be devoted to one subject. the more you explore a subject, the better 🙂

The bugs are so cute!! I love the one wobbling on its back 😊😊

Thanks so much dude. Also, I love tour bugs, so cute

Honestly thank you so much for these tips lately I've been having a hard time coming up with ideas for my sketchbook this was very helpful ❤️❤️❤️

ever since i started taking your sketchbook advice, ive found drawing a lot more enjoyable. you genuinely give the best advice, its so simple but so effective!!!

i love mixed media and the tip with not ripping out your pages really hit close to home.. its so tempting to just make it seem like it never happened..

I've never thought about adding to sketchbook pages over time like that (your first hint about filling blanks on previous pages etc), but i love the idea, especially because my mind doesn't really work on "working on a piece in multiple sessions" (i think this is a problem more people are having). I'd love to train myself to work on pieces of art more than just in one sitting lol. Train the upkeep of elongated focus (not my first language, i can't find the fitting words for this right now lol)

"everything has been done before, you just have to do your own version of it", it made me feel lighter in my chest ty<3

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Thank you so much for these helpful tips ☺️🌟

Definitely an issue to have a messy and clean sketchbook, especially if you’re a beginner. Don’t do it unless you accept that on some days you will draw something really nice in your “bad” sketchbook and then in your “good” sketchbook you will occasionally draw something terrible. Got to alway be open to the process. Really a “perfect” sketchbook is really unnecessary when learning, unless your goal is to create a sketchbook filled with finished pieces or an entire theme or something. But finished and “perfect” pieces are also very different from one another~

You’re my favorite creator! Love your videos <3

Nice!

I really enjoy watching your process. Your work is so lovely 💕

Your watercolors are very beautiful !!!

I love all the insect friends! Please use one for a Patreon sticker?
Thanks for all the great tips, definitely will use some of these.

This is my little sketchbook tip/ a thing I do; lately I've been taking a a sheet of paper bigger then my sketchbook page and sketch, draw and doodle on that sheet and then glue that on my sketchbook. I've been doing this because I'm near the end of my sketchbook and I'm trying to extend it's life. I noticed that sometimes it let's me draw more loosely. It also adds a bit more life to the thing.

I also just love listening to you talk, you have a very nice voice!

I’ve been stuck in art block, and seeing you drawing while listening to tips has really helped me get motivated, thank you! 😊

I love these little critters! your joy in creating really comes across

I normally think of having a Pinterest board with a lot of art prompt lists and following one. ❤ then I do a study, then something for fun. To have a cycle going ❤

I love these tips ! I’ll try to use these more . I especially love how you draw nature and animals. The coloring too it’s so whimsical ❤❤❤❤❤❤

I also find myself going back to old pages and adding sketches to them 😅

I honestly spend more time decorating the pages than drawing 😅 (like stickers, washi tape, colored pencils and markers)

Hey could you please tell me what crayon you use to transform it into watercolour

I needed this video, I haven't touched my sketchbook in weeks, mainly because of work, but still 😅

Tysm!! I'm going on a trip & I've been asked to illustrate a children's book. Your encouragement to "mix it up in the same sketchbook" is a great idea. Thx tonzz!!

Ive been having so much trouble lately drawing and just painting with stuff that this video really helped with that. Thanks JelArts!!

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im absolutley a HUGE fan of this drawing, would you consider making it a print? i love it so much

I love how casual this video was. It was like having a nice little sketchbook session with an artist friend.

I love your bugs ❤❤❤❤❤

I definitely agree with using mixed media in a sketchbook, this is definitely something that I need to do more of ❤

ladybug

You draw my favorite animal! 🥰
Thank you for drawing insects 😍🤩

This came out at the perfect time!! Your sketchbook videos are always wonderful!

Cool

This is amazing 🤩 luv ur art