sketchbook ep 29 ✏️ there’s a light that never goes out ✨ | sketches (7 pages) | colorful drawings🌈 | getting used to working in quite chaotic space 🎨 (Patreon)

Hi!

Anyone caught The Smiths reference in the title?

I’ve missed you! Thank you so much for the patience and all the sweet messages.

I’m doing much better and the creative spark is BACK as well!

I’m really sorry for not replying to your messages in reasonable timeframe and for keeping you waiting extremely long for literally anything. (please read the announcements at the end of this post)

With that being said, let’s take a look at my sketchbooks.

Well, let’s start by sharing some of my sketches from October! (at this point I almost forgot I made them, embarrassing, I know!)

These were part a little side project of sketching everyday for 30 days.

Honestly, it didn’t change much in my art practice, probably because I’ve been sketching with pencil regularly for a looong time.

I think this kind of practice but with other mediums (and colors!) would be more beneficial. Something like 100 days project I failed last year, lol.

I just felt like mentioning this project again, so it kind of explains why most of these sketches are just some random doodles and nothing really groundbreaking.

Well, in fact that’s how most sketches are and it absolutely normal. It sounds like a topic for a separate post or even a video???

Anyway! Here are the sketches:

Some random books (I’m a bookworm, anyone else?!) and doodles inspired by a hike we took earlier that month!

More random kind of autumnal doodles!

Plus some polaroid style ‘photos’ of our hike!

We got engaged!! (like, in real life!) so I felt the need to document it in my sketchbook somehow.

The quote on this page comes from Berlioz song 'Peace'.

Autumn in my sketchbook, part 52739.

I really tried to almost force myself to draw autumnal things.

At that point I was still debating on the theme for October and really wanted to make ‘autumn berries’ to happen (but I ended up choosing pumpkins anyway)

Autumn berries again! Inspired by some plants I spotted on the walk.

and even more of them, plus some random doodles.

This page feels really forces, but hey, daily practice is a daily practice, right?

Kinda trying new things here in the top left corner.

I’ve always wanted to make a sketchbook page/spread with this kind of layout (like a grid), so it’s my shy attempt to do so.

Pumpkins!

At this point I’ve decided on pumpkins as a theme for October.

I really wanted to make stickers more interesting and decorative, than ‘just’ some single pumpkins, so I played with vine and leaves and shapes. Fun!

Oh, it made me realize I haven’t shown you these finished pumpkins illustrations yet.

Let’s just add it to a huge list of things I want to share in the nearest future.

Now, let’s add some colors to this post.

After moving to our new place, I wasn’t using markers as much.

Mostly because they were stored in some huge boxes, I don’t have a dedicated workspace (we basically live in the kitchen and now I store my art supplies on the floor, lol)

One day I just felt the NEED to draw something using markers and I managed to find green markers only (and one random pink shade), so naturally I drew some houseplants.

(evening sketching session)

Actually here I used some green shades I probably never used before!

 (it's a work in progress)

I’m going to share the full color palettes for each plant, once all of these illustrations are finished.

I just couldn’t decide on colors for pots.

Were thinking about maybe some blue shades??

so, I just left it unfinished, and I’m not proud of it!

Oh, I finally found all of my markers and pencils and even made new color swatches (which I’m also going to share with buttercup+ tiers), so despite the lack of space and general chaos, now I’m able to use (and find) all the colors!!

soooo guess what I’ve decided to draw.

Blueberries! What’s the better way to practice drawing gradients and using tons of colors?!

I started to fill this sketchbook spread almost accidentally! It just… happened (what kind of sorcery is that?!), now I kind of regret that I didn’t make these illustrations on a clear empty page, lol.

These color swatches for copic markers are totally irrelevant to these illustrations, I just made them a year ago or so and planned to making some illustrations using these colors only.

I ended up not doing that (duuuh) and honestly I just wanted to play with colors this time, so I filled the first quasi-empty page I found.

(real life picture!)

A little work in progress shot!

Oh, I can’t get over how much of a difference pencil outlines make!

Golden hour in my kitchen!

This paper has a subtle texture and it doesn’t show much, especially on scans, but here you can finally see that, yayy! (by the way, this sketchbook is not doing well, as you can see, lolll)

That was FUN!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1. I haven’t announced themes for December and January because I haven’t figured that out yet. I have some sketches and ideas, so it'll be done soon.

2. Some previous reward were sent SUPER LATE and mails from October, November and December weren’t sent yet, so please please don’t worry if you haven’t received your rewards yet. I’m catching up!! I'm sorry! I definitelly should've let you know earlier.

3. Digital rewards, like some phone wallpapers (nasturtiums and sunflowers) and videos are basically ready to post (or almost ready) and I’m not in an anxiety paralyze anymore, so I’ll be sharing these very soon!

Again, I couldn’t thank you enough for supporting me in these harder times and I’m so sorry I wasn’t delivering rewards and content on time.

This community and each and everyone of you mean a lot to me and I hope I’ll be able to show you how much I really mean it.

Hope you enjoy today's post!

Love,

Marta