I really appreciate that, thank you! 🙏🏻 Are you currently working on any particular sketches or drawings?

I love that! I'd love to spend a few days in the Caribbean right now :) 🌴What unfinished piece do you want to pick up next? And in what medium?

Thank you mate, really appreciate it :) That sounds like a solid move. It's always good to sharpen fundamentals, no matter where we are currently at on our art journeys! It's just as important for the pros as the aspiring. Is there a particular area of fundamentals that you'll be focusing on, such as anatomy, perspective, values, or composition, or will it be a general fundamental level-up? I imagine composition will be part of it, if not the center of your attention as you mentioned it there towards the end. And I know exactly that feeling of confidence and accomplishment that you're talking about. It really does come from showing up and sticking to your own word, just that little bit of practice every day so it's not some enormous and daunting task, and once you get started and ignite that flame, it's easier to continue on for longer. As a result, you'll get better! Keep track of your progress, make yourself a plan for the rest of Winter, tick off pages read, pages sketched, videos watched, and knowledge and advice implemented. Celebrating the little victories along the way, helps you go a long way ;) Go for it, and allow your own momentum to build once again! 🙌🏻

Hello! Are you asking me to do some drawings of turtles?

@@milest6111 My pleasure! Really glad to hear that you found it inspiring :) What will you be sketching next? ✍🏻

Appreciate it, mate! What are you working on this winter?

@@RobbieAllenArtist Im working on my composition and physical sketching. Gestures, poses, and with digital im going to work on actually learning digital paint. Im most comfortable working with pencil and line work, also pen and ink has become one of my recent favorite mediums which im still learning to master. I switch between physical and digital but im most comfortable still with physical drawing. I think its the tablet and the glass surface which lacks a resistance but ive been learning to adapt.

​@@silentobserver888 Goals! I love that. You've got a few things you're working on there, which is great. Plenty of fuel to keep yourself moving forward this Winter! This means that if you get a little bit bored in one area, you can just switch mediums or subject matter and continue with practice. I personally find switching between traditional sketching and painting to digital drawing and painting very enjoyable. It helps keep things fresh and even more interesting. I find it also aids me with overall art productivity. Even the transition from pencil to ink and back is great fun :) And composition is a huge and deeply fascinating topic! Who or what are you learning from currently for that? I'm also doing weekly gesture drawing sessions, but keeping them digital currently. Not on an ipad though, I'm still using a Wacom tablet and staring at my laptop screen. Are you taking part in a life drawing class for your gestures? Stay focused, and keep it up :)

@ I have never taken a life drawing class! Though I would like to someday! Also I’m reading a book called Master artist series: Composition! I purchased last year around $250 in various art books from fundamentals to color and light to pen and ink to composition and I have some anatomy books as well and things on creature design and I got a my own little library consisting of these art educational books to self teach. It’s in an investment in myself. At the age I’m at there was some opportunities taken from me when I was younger so I never had a chance to fully get my art education due to some particular circumstances. Now I’m 33, and started my own indie publishing company. I’ve been world building for 15 years and going to publish my own fantasy series and after that a sci fi series. I want to put my own illustrations inside my novels and then do my own concept art books for world building purposes to sell too. I’m working with the narrator from the video game Disco Elysium and he will be narrating my fantasy series. It’s been a journey.

@@silentobserver888 Fair enough! If you like drawing figures, I highly recommend trying it if you can, it's one of my favourite art activities, along with plein air painting! I'm going to have to look that book up on composition. Art books are well worth the investment I think. I always want to buy more before I've even read or even opened others that I already own! I have to fix that, haha. That's so good that you've got your own library collection :) Excellent, and well done for starting your own indie publishing company! I love the fantasy genre, always have since I was young. I loved looking at Frank Frazetta's work, but at the time, I couldn't afford a book, so I downloaded lots of Frazetta paintings and drawing images online, and saved them to a folder that I could flick through for inspiration! When you say you've been world building for 15 years, do you mean as a concept artist, or as an illustrator? I imagine as a concept artist, as you want to make your own books. Great idea to have your own art to back up and compliment your storytelling and writing for your own novels. I bet having a project like that will be very rewarding to complete, publish, and unleash into the world! So will your fantasy series be animated? Sounds very exciting. I'll have to look up the game Disco Elysium!

Thank you Manisha :)

Welcome! And thank you very much I appreciate it :) What are you/will you be drawing?

I really appreciate your comment, mate, and glad to hear you've found it inspiring and that you're getting back to sketchbooks again! What was it you first started to draw again after your hiatus? Well done for getting back 💯

And I do plan on having more sketchbook videos like this coming very soon! :)

@@RobbieAllenArtist Mostly Knights, 50s Greaser Gangs and the cliche London Gangsters "This ere is the peaky blinders yeah?" I mostly draw them because of the style and sharpness of what they're wearing. I find that before i go to Fantasy or Scifi Level concept drawing I'd stick to fundamentals and draw them as accurate in real life as possible. You know the Ol "Before you break the rules you must first understand them" approach.

@@RobbieAllenArtist That's awesome to hear! May I recommend an artist that is a master of Sketch art. The great "Karl Kopinski" to take inspiration from if you need it. Guy worked for Warhammer 40k and Fantasy art. I like his grounded and gritty approach in drawing. Highly recommend for studies and such

@@savvysod8995 That's cool mate, and yeah I hear you! I have also drawn from the Peaky Blinders, and I've painted a few digital studies from the series, I have them up on my portfolio website if you fancy taking a look! Great fun, and good idea/approach for sure.

@@Temomemo-yt Thank you for the comment, I promise I won't 😊🙏🏻

@@Temomemo-yt are you also an artist?

Are you another night owl? 🦉 It feels so good to create late at night and get 'in the zone' :)

​@@RobbieAllenArtistyeah the creative Energy at the highest during midnight

@ It’s hard to resist! But often very beneficial if we stick with it 🌃

Thank you Salah! I appreciate that :)

Do you also draw? If so, what are you working on?

Thank you very much! :)

@@mornaadrian5168 Thank you very much Adrian! I'm glad you enjoyed it, and learned from it! 💛 Which sketch did you prefer out of the two? ✍️🏻

Hard to pronounce but I find the second more in detail to be honest, but both amazing and u got talent and skills that’s for sure! Is my favourite KZbin channel

@ I love that. Thank you so much for the kind words! I appreciate it 🙏🏻

Thank you! 💙 Was there something you liked in particular?

I love that! Any particular kind of birds that you would like to sketch?

It worked!

Thank you, Dolores, I'm so glad you and others like it :)

@@andyreeves5129 Thank you Andy!

@@dieterschroder8152 Hello, my pleasure! And thank you for commenting. Please let me know if you enjoyed the free ebook, and if you found it helpful :)

@ no Problem i Hope i would draw again in my life because i See so many good Artist Like you and then i feel there are so many why should i draw but if i can learn something i will let See you some examples thanks for your recomment

@ Thank you! Well I think anybody can learn how to draw at any time in life, or return to it again, it brings so many benefits, especially if you are a creative individual, I think it’s essential! It brings calmness, peace, helps you to focus, it makes you feel good, especially once you get in the creative zone and enter ‘the flow state’ as I discuss in my book! So I hope I can help encourage and inspire you to draw again with my videos, or with my book :) If you don’t mind sharing, what is your name, and what part of the world are you from?

I’ve just seen in the notifications section it says your name, nice to meet you, please do get a sketchbook and start sketching ✍🏻

@@RobbieAllenArtist hello mr allen i am from germany thanks for your supporting words i Hope somedays i will find back to the Creative process have a good day

Thanks mate, I appreciate it! 🙏🏼 I think I will make some more animal drawing videos down the line! And maybe some painting ones too :)

Thank you for the comment! Is it Ollie? Utah looks like a beautiful place to live in the USA. I got as far as The Grand Canyon on my trip from the West Coast and Las Vegas (day trip). I'd love to return to visit areas like Monument Valley sometime, and maybe paint there! Cheers :)

Hello, thank you for commenting! I'm glad you found it useful :) Do you know what you would like to draw next in your sketchbook? ✏

That’s great that you get straight into it! What is it that you usually doodle to get started, or is it always something different? Quite a few artists I’ve spoken to will collect new sketchbooks and not draw in any of them for long periods of time!

@@RobbieAllenArtist usually like some scribble or like hatching lines as a warm up, i also tried smt new i would probably continue to do which is make small cartoony thumbnails, their cute and a good warm up to get familiar with the subject.

@@bl_nk284 I usually prefer quick warm-ups on a separate sheet of print paper, and I keep some spare sheets by my desk. I like the idea! Let me know how it goes and if you had a good sketching session :)

Prob a study of tigers

@@bl_nk284 You know what, now you've said that, I want to do that too!

I'll try to draw buildings without perspective knowledge.

@ That sounds great! But do you think you'll do that from life, sketching the buildings outdoors, or at home, using photo reference?

@@RobbieAllenArtist i hope both. The weather is getting nicer to look for interesting buildings and architectures and I will also do warm up sketches from references. I'm building muscle memory for my hand because I have a slightly shaky hand grip

Glad to hear that! What would you draw on the first page? And thank you 🙏🏻

Thank you Sheldon, really glad you enjoyed it 🙏🏻

Yes it's the same location, same painting of the forest and mountains in the background :)

Thank you!

@@manishasinghcreations9363 Thank you Manisha 🙏🏻

@@manishasinghcreations9363 Hi Manisha, I’m not sure what you mean?

The video is about using Pinterest to help sell your artwork (online).

Robbie i mean u mentioned in your caption how to sell your art using Pinterest. Which i am asking you can you describe me dear in detail .

@@manishasinghcreations9363 This video is Part 2 of a Part 1 - 3 series of videos. Once part 3 is up, it will make more sense. Parts 1 & 2 are all about preparing and getting your art ready to be published online. There's only so much information you can convey in these short videos, which makes me think, that maybe I should make a longer form video afterwards, and explain everything in even more detail.

@@RobbieAllenArtist okay

@@amybakker183 Haha, yes! But I think lots of artists should put their work up for sale earlier than they think. You never know who might consider your work to be ‘good’, or ‘excellent’, or somebody liking the art enough to want to purchase it.

Are you an artist? If you are, do you think you could sell your work yet?