A page a day New Year's sketchbook mission!

[@peckinpahlady]

Your drawing skills are phenomenal. Thanks for all you do and HNY.

[@yeatesmakes]

Happy New Year to you too : ) thanks for taking the time to pass on kind words

[@63artemisia63]

OMG, the museum of zoology! 💕❤️💕 What a treat. I haven’t even watched the video yet and I’m already delighted. Thanks 🎈🤸‍♂️🎈🤸‍♂️

[@yeatesmakes]

Hope you enjoy, I'm off to the Anthropology museum next week, then the classical archaeology museum after that to continue with the sketching. I'm lucky Cambridge is nearby, so many cool museums : )

[@63artemisia63]

@@yeatesmakes I was feeling envious then it occurred to me that I can visit those places online. In fact I found a 30 minute walkthrough of the archeological and anthropology museums that I can watch on my big tv. Thanks for the inspiration.

[@wamr-o7r]

i love watching your you tube videos and marveling that someone has so much imagination and inspires my creativity..thank you for that.💫

[@stinkobinko]

You've inspired me in a number of ways. Your work is delightful.

[@bevmorton8725]

Mark Yeates you are an education. Thank you as always for sharing. You are a motivation boost, every time I watch you!

[@yeatesmakes]

Delighted to hear that Bev, thank you : )

[@CathSheard]

Neocolor are wonderful. There’s a lot you can do with them. Your journal is wonderful, love the variety.

[@yeatesmakes]

Cheers Cath, just getting into those neocolour : ) I saw a set in the shop with about 40 colours in!!! bit pricy though!

[@kinafari]

Thank you for all your amazing content….I always get new ideas from your videos ❤

[@yeatesmakes]

Thanks so much for you kind comment, and all the others you've left on videos I've posted. You've been along for the ride for quite a while now!!!!!

[@PEONEY67]

Love this mission’s year resolution

[@travellerontheway]

What a fantastic and inspiring artist you are !

[@Xenopticon]

It's mid-morning, at the moment, and I've been up all night. So, I may come back and edit this later, in case I say anything totally incomprehensible. Moments like these are thoroughly unpredictable. But thanks for this peek into your practice. Your drawing styles are so varied, yet all so successful. I've really enjoyed the short snippets of sketchbook work you've shown us over the last couple of years. I seem to recall one session at a river or a beach, where there were also cows? Watching you work is always educational, in itself. In this episode, seeing how you used the lighter-colored, broad-tip marker to block in shapes that you later refined with a fine-tipped marker was particularly instructive. I love how that drawing (and the one from the bleed-through) turned out. Also love the jackdaws, of course. And the use of collage. Sometimes, as with the fineline drawing of the seated guy in the ball cap, it's hard to tell what's collage and what's drawing or painting. That mystery is good for drawing me, for one, into a work. Thanks again for showing us this. (I'm envious of your having a zoology museum close by!)

[@cloe.b]

Hi Mark, thank you for sharing very inspiring😀 wish you a happy and creative 2023🎨🎉

[@yeatesmakes]

Thanks Cloe, same to you : )

[@angeladee8789]

We do live in odd times! Your thoughts on the queue to pay respects to the queen were similar to mine. I also felt like why am I watching this? As I continued to watch, for far too many hours. I enjoy your videos and loved looking through your sketchbook with you!

[@yeatesmakes]

Cheers Angela, lovely message : )

[@mallomere]

You are a Gelli pioneer. Continued sketchbook mission wishes for the new year. Cheers!

[@yeatesmakes]

Very kind, thanks : )

[@daisyodell2770]

Thank you for sharing your amazing sketch book! So many great ideas in such a small package. Very much looking forward to seeing more of these! I just stitched up a few sketchbooks of similar thickness to yours. The idea was to have a few to work on at the same time. When I work with wet mediums I am so impatient for letting things dry before the next step or turning the page, hopefully having a few to rotate through will help. Cheers to more sketchbook work in 2023!

[@yeatesmakes]

Hi Daisy, most of the way through the next one already!!!! Thanks for taking time to comment : )

[@mdipeace]

Oh how I wish I had a museum of Zoology anywhere near where I live.

[@AinoShperber]

Oh wow, what a treat to see your sketchbook!! Your creativity is unreal and so wonderfully executed. Thanks for sharing. Happy new year to you and your family. 🎉🎊✨

[@yeatesmakes]

Hi there Aino, glad to know you're still out there watching!!! Happy New Year to you too : )

[@gerryjenkison31]

Such a great sketchbook, thank you! Your drawing is great (way beyond my capability), and the way you combine materials and techniques is so impressive. And in a 'cheap as chips' sketchbook. Way to go!

[@artavenger349]

I feel very inspired!! Thank you ❤️

[@nuritgabay788]

Wish I could draw like you. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

[@maestra730]

wonderful sketch book! you are so talented! happy new year!

[@sonofhibbs4425]

Love that: “Cheap as Chips”. I think your sketchbooks are perfect! What you say is debatable.. I still can’t seem to part with using lined notebook paper or worse- the backs of papers sent to me in the mail (bills, doctor’s office notes, etc) fold lines and all. I have no idea why, but if I buy the fancy expensive art materials I tank. If I sketch on what basically amounts to someone else’s trash, I do my best work. 🫤??? Love your videos and your work! I really appreciate the ideas and techniques. I got into gel plates a few years ago. I am HOOKED! Thanks so much for sharing.

[@CraigsOverijse]

As always amazing will be interested to see where you go with this in 2023.

[@yeatesmakes]

: ) thanks for all the encouraging comments : )

[@lleary59]

Thanks for this! Not only are your process videos great to watch, but getting a glimpse of your practice is fabulous!

[@yeatesmakes]

Cheers Lori, glad you enjoyed it : )

[@tessaspanton6891]

Thanks for sharing your sketchbook, so inspiring. I am in awe of your drawing skills. I have sketchbooks in various sizes but more often use looseleaf papers. I like those little sketchbooks because I am much more likely to take them out with me and actually use them than anything bigger.

[@yeatesmakes]

: ) just bought 4 more of them!!!! they are so low stakes, it totally changes my approach!!!!

[@suemills8834]

Another inspiring video thank you!

[@63artemisia63]

Brilliant sketchbook, so diverse. Looks like you’ve solved your problem. The wonderful old Labor hall wouldn’t last a minute here in the US. Somebody would buy it, reclaim and repurpose it into a high end vegan pub or something ;o)

[@yeatesmakes]

Lol!!!! Not sure how much longer it will last, kind of why I wanted to draw it. Thanks for the message Lynn.

[@pippipants]

I like the small sketch book idea! It means we get to be nosey more often lol! Thanks for sharing!

[@callmebev]

Wow! I have a plan to do an illustrated Journal, but now seeing this video, I am inspired to just play in another book. So important for growth. A friend of mine and I get together every week, and have plans to do some of your experiments on our gel plates. Keep it up! We are watching.😊Bev

[@fancifuldevices]

This sketchbook is so cool! I love the variety of themes material Ms and colors with your consistent style.

[@melissamaan]

I’m a big proponent of up cycling and using found materials for my collages and art…and I recognized your polka dotted paper instantly because I have the same bags (Snagtights?) lovely sketchbook

[@carole2077]

Thanks for sharing your sketch book. Loved your little drawing of people queuing to pay respects to the Queen.

[@yeatesmakes]

Thanks Carole, really kind of you to comment. I enjoyed drawing the mourners, was thinking of blowing some of those tiny sketches up to a big scale and doing something with them... we'll see. I guess this is why I need to be a bit more diligent and keep the sketchbooks up - lots of possibilities spring from when you are relaxed and playing : )

[@jekalambert9412]

I loved the way that sketch triggered the story and captured the memory of the day's events. So many tangents.

[@AllisonReynolds1]

Thank you Mark for being so generous in sharing your practice. I don't know if you know the Spark and Fire podcast, but there's a great interview last week with Mark Bradford. Also if you set up an affiliate link on Amazon to those sketchbooks (or similar) I am sure people would be keen to help out financially by purchasing through it. Again thank you for your videos, I really enjoy and am inspired by your style and the work you do

[@yeatesmakes]

Hi Alison, thanks for the heads up on the Mark Bradford interview, I will check it out. thanks too for suggestions about affiliate links. If I do any, I will try to work with some of the independent retailers in the UK that I reckon really deserve the exposure. It's on my list to investigate these things in the New Year! : )

[@nancylee2120]

Thanks for walking us through your sketchbook. I especially like the paint tubes with collage. I've been wrestling with an urge to abstraction and an opposing urge to draw observationally. You seem to take such conflict in stride. Much appreciated.

[@junepatterson7928]

Fun sketchbook.

[@annrubino6252]

Totally awed by your drawing skills - be very proud of your sketchbooks.

[@blueislandgirl_]

Love this - thank you for sharing your sketchbook and some of the processes.

[@yeatesmakes]

:) a pleasure, cheers

[@blueislandgirl_]

@@yeatesmakes Mark would you be willing to do a video on how to loosen up in drawing? I love your style and it's wonderfully lose yet representative. Exercises? Ways to practice to loosen up? etc.? When I try to do loose it looks stupid, forced or something (and definitely bad!). Anyway, any tips/etc. would be so appreciated. Thank you so much for all your creativity.

[@RAULREYNOLDSDRAWING]

Your art is amazing

[@yeatesmakes]

: ) cheers Raul for the encouragement : )

[@RAULREYNOLDSDRAWING]

@@yeatesmakes most welcome. You inspire me to do this art form also.

[@vincentschiphorst]

Love your work!

[@jillam7039]

Thank you! I loved this video, very inspiring. I appreciate all your videos and I am going to be more consistent within my sketchbook as well. I usually end up bouncing between the iPad and my physical book. Will devote a sketchbook(s) to this year.

[@yeatesmakes]

Best of luck with it Jill, I'm determined to get something in there every day and then resist the temptation to pull it to pieces!!!! Thanks for taking time to comment, very kind : )

[@artistamandamillar]

I have a similar goal! I do all kinds of art, but never enough drawing! time for a new practice 😍

[@schwarzekatz602]

Wonderful sketchbook, like watching you drawing 😀

[@liz-annawaugh8349]

Great idea! I have such a hard time sticking with a sketchbook but this I might do!

[@amberrundell]

Absolutely love this thanks for the flip thru hope to see more of these ur skills amaze and inspire me thanks for the window into ur process i really enjoyed this video although i love all of your videos so there’s that lol❤

[@afisaiful91]

Love this, i love it where theres multiple medium is use in that sketchbook. Im gonna try to do this for my next sketchbook

[@yeatesmakes]

Afi??? Could that be the Afi from way back when I was a spring chicken?

[@elielmendes2443]

I'll do a new sketchbook as my new year project. Thanks for being such an inspiration.

[@yeatesmakes]

Hi Eliel, that's great news. I'll post a video sometime in Feb to see if I am good to my word. Now I know you'll be doing one, I have another little incentive!!!!

[@elielmendes2443]

Be sure I'll be closely following your channel. I like your artistic approach and how you mix techniques to get some amazing results.

[@mariach46]

Awesome sketchbook, thanks so much for sharing. Just made a small donation, it's not much. Wishing you and your family a very happy new year. Thank you for such an inspirational channel.

[@yeatesmakes]

Thanks so much Maria, very sweet of you. And thanks also for the encouraging words : )

[@lindyashford7744]

I bought a very similar notebook at the end of the summer, it certainly got me committing things to paper again… so great for not getting that feeling of things not being good enough, less than a couple of quid so no guilts at all. I am just hopeless at sketch book stuff, hadn’t even thought about it’s potential for print… I have a fistful of techniques to try…. I love two things out of your notebook a lot. One the bones stuff, dinos? But I like to look at the tiny instead have a fascination with stuff most people cannot see… the other is you sketch of the mourning queues, which also reminded me a lot of some very political posters, some positive and others negative, but very British… the whole ritual was very powerful, wasn’t it? At the time I could not have drawn it, but you took screenshots….. the neo-color 2 was to be one of my next experiments, never mind, I wonder if they can be used wet to draw direct onto the plate instead of as a resist? The colours I have got are just beautiful. Thanks for yet another glimpse into your processes, I especially value the no mess economy of the way you do things, working into these inexpensive books in a way seems like an evolution of that. Hope there’s more to come in ‘23!

[@yeatesmakes]

Hi Lindy, I haven't given up on those Neo-Colours!!! Mine are the neo-Colour 1, which are not water soluble so please let me know how you get on : ) Thanks for such an encouraging message and i hope your sketchbook goes well!

[@angelinamichelle8474]

I really enjoyed this. Inspiring indeed!

[@yeatesmakes]

Cheers Angelina, glad you enjoyed and thanks for taking time to comment : )

[@Vikette1000]

Love your work! Is that the zoology museum in London? We stay very near there sometimes but we're always somewhere else when it's open.

[@yeatesmakes]

Cheers : ) the museum is in Cambridge, well worth a visit and the anthropology museum and the Sedgewick (Dinosaurs and so on) are straight over the road!

[@Vikette1000]

@yeatesmakes Hmmm. Maybe a winter weekend in Cambridge is in order. Thanks!

[@juliepederson8468]

You know I love ALL you do- but I’ve a question? What Promarkers do you use specifically? I see the brush tip label- when I go to order some- are they all alcohol based? Dual tip? They are Windsor and Newton, correct? Thx much!

[@yeatesmakes]

Hi Julie, I use Windsor and Newton Promarkers, both brush/broad tip and fine tip/broad tip. I prefer the fine tip / broad tip ones though : )

[@graindesand2562]

Un petit commentaire en français. J'aime beaucoup votre travail autour de la recherche sur les multiples techniques et medias... La langue est malheureusement pour moi un peu un barrage même si la traduction automatique est un guide mais pas toujours pertinente 😜 n'avez-vous jamais pensé transmettre avec des formations en ligne ? Merci pour le partage de votre savoir... ❤️

[@yeatesmakes]

Thanks for the lovely comment : ) merci pour le gentil retour : )

[@christinedrage9891]

Your drawing skills are fantastic, it's something I feel I'm rubbish at. Did you have fine art training or is it "just" lots of practise? I feel hampered by my poor skill in this area. Thanks for your amazing videos and happy new year.

[@52Skinner]

Inspiring

[@yeatesmakes]

Pleased : )

[@arielle2745]

💖💗💓

[@brendaberezan2737]

Hi Mark and thank you for sharing this. Lovely work and inspiring. Just curious if the paper in this little sketch book is a watercolour or mixed media type. Happy new year and I wish you lots of creative energy in 2023! Brenda

[@artbyandrew]

Just wondering what has been your career path that brought you to this point? Looks like you’re a graphic designer or illustrator. Would be interesting to know your story. Luv yer work.!

[@yeatesmakes]

Hi Andrew, I studied art then went in to teaching which I have been doing for many years. When my day job and life allow, I make as much as I can : )

[@margueritemitchell1829]

❤hello from Beautiful British Columbia 🇨🇦🖐👍❤🦖🐐💜💙🧜‍♀️🌍💦🌲🌳🚴‍♀️

[@laowaistudieschina7470]

I think you're being a bit hard on yourself when you describe dismantling and destroying your sketchbooks and taking pages out for scratch paper. The fact is, you were using your sketchbooks, and that's a huge improvement over filling a page or two and then "Squirrel!!" Off to another sketchbook, like I do. Your description was actually very inspiring to me to not worry about messing up my sketchbooks.

[@jekalambert9412]

Fun to see a "behind the scenes" video. I really appreciated you revealing that you don't have the discipline to sketch every day. I don't either. It's something about creatives - they always see the new possibilities and follow their interests instead of doing something because they're "supposed to" or it's "helpful". Your approach to art is like the spiritual teachings that instruct you to follow your passion. Mark, with your talent and creativity, I honestly don't see the benefit for you in being "disciplined" about having a daily sketch practice. You're doing your art regularly and getting enormous growth without the sketchbook practice. Why force yourself to do it? When someone tells me I "should" do this or that every day, I tell them the only things I do every day are breathe, drink water and pee. Beyond that, it's anybody's guess.

[@yeatesmakes]

Hi Jeka, this is a really thoughtful comment, thanks. I certainly won't be a prisoner to this pledge! My motivation is mainly that there have been times where I've kept up regular sketchbook practice and those periods have always reaped rewards. It's also part of a bigger mission to use my time more wisely. A lot of the time I've devoted to making recently has been with a view to make a video, or get something on my website. In order to retain a nice free approach I'm finding the sketchbook gives me that springboard. We'll see how it goes!!!! Again, thanks for the lovely comment. You've been following along for so long and the fact I've managed to keep people like yourself interested is really rewarding and giving me loads of motivation to keep going : )

[@jekalambert9412]

@@yeatesmakes Hi Mark and thanks for your comments. I love your channel because you are SO innovative! It feeds my creative juices. Thank you for all you do and many blessings in 2023, even with or without a sketchbook practice.