you have beautiful hands!😁

Amazing how you turn a boring rather monotonic landscape into a bright vivid colorful art piece!...

Hi It was a great 👍 video and journey, I guess it will be Osama if you draw a historical place at the sea.

In my art classes I was always told to only use one side of the paper to prevent smudging, especially with graphite. Using graphite primarily, I see why that was recommended but I always thought it was wasteful, effectively using only half of the sketchbook. I like the tracing paper idea and I think I’ll try it out. Thank you for these tips.

I use Schmincke wax medium to protect watercolour and ink sketches in some of my sketchbooks. I also make my own sketchbooks for soft pastels, oil pastels and water soluble wax pastels, using Paint On by Claire Fontaine or Canson Mi-Teintes paper and adding one sheet of acid free tracing paper between the sheets. All pages are protected and it looks great. All materials are acid free. Thanks for these tips!

Very helpful for all levels. You are a great teacher Jess!

a cheap and easy way to have a fixative without spending a lot of money is using hair spray as a fixative.... (test your surface first)

What type magnetic pallet are u using?

Love it...such a fierce & bold colour choice too, which feels very fitting when you talk about being bold, taking risks and reach for that place the other side of your fears.❤

i would love to see an animated show in your art style ngl

How does your Brain just imagine these faces for you to draw

Beautiful studio . Nice looking out at the water and sunset.

🎉🎉🎉 I loooove watching you draw. Soooooo satisfying 😮😊🎉🎉🎉.... All but Purple and Green after my fav.

Oh, Jess! This is Wonderfull! I love looking back at your old Videos! You have grown so much! And I have grown so much in this time! Everyone has learned, lived and Grown a lot!😊

Thanks🎉

Love this video! Can you please do a video explaining your face drawing process, and tips for proportions? That would help me sooooo much!

Hi Jess! Love your videos. I have a highly cost effective protective idea that I havent seen anyone else type yet. To prevent graphite from smudging and messing up other pages. Use clear tape to "seal" the drawing. Obviously this wont be ideal for taking pictures of the art and everything, but i think its still helpful. Just take alot of pics before, seal with tape and youre good to go.

I have peen using parchment paper to protect my sketchbook drawings for years now. It's really cost effective and easy to cut to size 😊

😃👍🏼 Thank you. I use Wax paper.

So dear and precious. Thank you! ❤️

Amazing work Jess! I love the selective use of color and the way every sketch illustrates a story

Oh this is so cool and I love the colour pallete!

As a 5 sport athlete and college football player...I began playing football at age 6....my dad had played college football at a major school and I was his only son (he had many daughters first!!)..so I fell as if u had to live up to hid expectations... I sucked so badly when I was a kid. I was small and extremely skinny....I almost thought I'd never be good...Then one day I met a famous player when I was 8...he told me that ANYONE can get better at anything with enough heart, desire and practice practice practice... since I played a "skilled" position he told me how important "muscle memory" is..and the only way to improve is by doing things over and over and over... he told me to buy both a HS football and a college football....(pretty much identical...)... he told me to NEVER PUT IT DOWN... and to throw it up and catch it a thousand times a day...he promised me that if I did that...BY high school I'd be catching the ball easily WITH JUST 1 HAND and spinning the football on my finger like guys do with a basketball..at the time..I wasn't sure about it but...I decided to trust him because he was just so good. I did everything he told me to. I continued to play age 7,8,9,10,11,12.13 ..(pop warner)...by the time I was in HS nobody could catch or throw the football like me...the muscles in my hands, fingers, arms and shoulders began to develop "muscle memory"... That advice literally changed my life. I told you that story mostly for those of you who want to be great drawers but doubt your ability. I promise you that drawing is no different than catching a football from any height or angle...with ONE HAND. If you draw something every day....and continue drawing and drawing and drawing...AS you learn by watching KZbin videos.... if you give exponentially more effort than the average artist.... I PROMISE YOU THAT IN 10 YEARS PEOPLE WILL BE IN AWE OF HOW GREAT YOU DRAW..... But, understand that it takes desire and work....some days you won't want to draw....those are the days you'll learn the most.....trust me ...I know from vast experience. I know you have the ability...your brain is more powerful than any computer.... put muscle memory into your fingers, hands and shoulders....and your brain will follow. Please print this out if you're just starting....because if you follow my advice you'll end up drawing amazing things!!! By that time..I hope we are still around so you can message me.....let me know how famous you've become. 😊 There's NO SUBSTITUTE FOR HARD WORK ON A CONSISTENT LEVEL. GO GET YOUR DREAMS.

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WOW! Thank you so much for all the information!

I'm an architect from Brazil and here is very commom to professors in college to recommend parchment paper for technical drawing practice because of the low cost in comparison with more "professional" papers. I personally worked in a firm where the head architect till this day still begins the design studies of the project in parchment paper and I always loved that

Thanks for the tips😊😊😊. Amazing video.

Laminating your swatch chart is such a good idea, thank you!

Muchas gracias. Excelent.

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Try Abstract Art! I bet it would look Great!

My dad uses tracing paper for storing smaller loose originals, mostly pastels. He just tucks the them between the pages of the pad like it's a portfolio.

I make my own sketchbooks... Thanks to you, I now have ideas of integrating a5 sized tracing paper in them. Quite easy actually and still rather cheap :)

Beautiful! It’s a busy scene , you really captured the feel of the place. Which is the whole point of painting outside. Right? ❤

what are your thoughts on using hair spray as a fixative? I only use it on soft pastel drawings.

This has been an incredibly informative video! Thank you so much for sharing this information with us! I have been thinking about methods to possibly preserve the artwork in these mini books I'm going to be making with children this summer for a summer class and yeah the only thing that I thought of was wax paper for like food and I like that you have given me so many other options to consider as well! I actually was looking into pre-cut little sheets I guess for like meat or whatnot because I don't really want to do any more heavy lifting that I already have to for the class for prep for the little ones. So that's kind of funny, but I guess it limits me in terms of like what I can use those sheets with. It would have to be for only small projects. Perfect video and right on time!

Amazing tips jess ..very helpful..i also use tracing paper...its best ...but more tips are very helpful..thanks for sharing ❤❤❤

I just cut a plastic carry bag of the size of my page and place it 😅😅 New sketchbook start pls

Hi Jess, thank you very much for the tips. I tested cold wax to seal neocolors, gouaches and watercolor paintings. But my pages remain sticky. I even had a smudge of colored pencils (from the next page) 😢 Have you ever used cold wax medium to seal projects ?

I personally use wax papers in between the artworks ,and it's a cheap alternative

Fun fact: I actually write and doodle and sometimes draw in my books almost daily. I use pencils for this as the paper in books won’t have a chance with most other pen types. I really can’t remember when I first started doing this but since most of my books are ones that I read or reference over and over again I always keep papers around to put in between the pages. Since I am an avid fountain pen user too i’ll almost always have rodia staplebound notebooks of all sizes everywhere. So basically my book pages are full of writing and doodling and the occasional drawing; I have the rodia paper in between the books pages and as I can’t stop myself I will write and doodle on those papers with fp and ink as well 😂 So it’s a daily mix of written and doodled papers with pencils and fountain pens! İt’s quite fun actually to go back to those pages. Only some places in some books are soo full that I had to get new ones just to be able to read the og text 😂 So basically I use paper. İn my office work we used to use a lot of copy paper to print documents. We use to buy them in bulk. But throughout the years as everything got to be digital, a lot of paper was left untouched. I still have some of that paper around! So I’ll use those as well. Either in notebooks sketchbooks or books 😊

Thank you Jess, very helpful advice! I recently completed my sixth sketchbook, and this time around, one thing I tried to include more of was acrylic paint - not a medium I normally use (I'm an alcohol marker girl). And I think the most frustrating thing was how the pages kept sticking together, even with a gesso undercoat and varnish finish. So it was great to see you post a video on how to protect your pages! 😊 Keep on shining 🖌🎨🖼

Hullo Jess, I am awaiting videos from the Artists in Wonderland, I am trying to be patient honest I am!! I move between spray Fixatives and Glassine. I find the Glassine works best for soft Pastels and I buy it by the roll! 32 to 36 inches wide and 10 to 25 foot rolls! I have used watercolor paint over graphite drawings just to "fix" the graphite down and it can give the drawings a "mood" to enhance if you like that sort of thing. Krylon is my most purchased fixative brand. You can get it just about everywhere even WalMart! It also comes in workable, UV protective, Glossy and Matt surfaces! I have also used Casin spray for pastels, but you got to be so careful! Pastels get dark so easily so I avoid sprays as much as I can.

Thank you!

Something I like to use daily Jess is a product called Patty Wax and also Sandwich wax. They are culinary wax, paper products you can find in any restaurant supply store. They come in 6X6 Sheets 1000 to a box for about $4.99 and also 12X12 sheets 1000 per box for about 8.99. They are thin and great for keeping your pages clean but I also use the 6X6 sheets as paint palets for my acrylic paints for easy clean up. Very cost-effective.....

I just wanna thank you for all that you do in the art community. You’re so inspiring. I’ve been watching your channel for some time and have been encouraged to start my own KZbin channel. I’ve never painted before I’ve only sketched. It’s been over 15 years since I picked up a pencil because of your channel. I’m taking on the task to “master” gouache. Again, thank you so much.

I found my hard bound/soft bound sketchbooks smudge less as their pages have less movement against one another compared to Spiral/wire O bindings.

Thanks for the tips!!!❤