My First Sketchbook, Ever!

[@martinbailly573]

Great video ! Thank you so much for sharing and for going over some of the motivational difficulties that a new sketchers face over time! That really helped me !!! Also, I must say that your talent is quite evident in this first book ! Thank you once again for your great course on Domestika and for making me discover the joy of sketching. Cheers !! ✌️😊

[@housesketcher]

Hi Martin, Thank you so much!! And thank you for your continued support and feedback. That is very precious to me!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@sinydedeugd6989]

Wat geweldig leuk om al zoveel vooruitgang te zien in je eerste schetsboek Albert! Ik heb jouw cursus gedaan op Domestika en ik heb daar zoveel plezier aan beleefd (nog steeds trouwens)! Dank voor dit kijkje in jouw groei!😊

[@housesketcher]

Heel graag gedaan!! Ik wil hiermee laten zien dat je nooit kunt starten van 'mooi'. Het is een groeiweg en die begint heel eenvoudig bij het begin. Maar elke schets is een stap verder in de ontwikkeling! Maar de stappen moeten wel gezet worden. 🍀

[@amypak]

Thank you, Albert! I'm so impressed with how prolific you've been with your practice, and especially how you are so willing to share ALL of it, the good and the ones you're not so thrilled with! I SO appreciate all your tips, encouragement, and guidance. You've always got such inspiring words about just DOING IT, and the fact that every time we do it is a learning experience-Having perfectionistic tendencies, I've had to repeat those words to myself often. I really enjoyed your Domestika course and have received even more requests to draw peoples homes in this style now!

[@housesketcher]

Thanks so much Amy!! That's so kind of you to say🙏🏻🌺✨

[@jonathanneech7739]

Seeing and hearing your journey just fuels my confidence to keep going…..thanks for sharing Albert

[@housesketcher]

Absolutely Jonathan!! Keep going is so going to be worth its while!! 🍀🍀🍀

[@Midgy21747]

They are amazing sketches. Far far from where I am now.

[@housesketcher]

A matter of time!! Keep making sketches!!! The main message from this video🍀

[@bragoen]

I appreciate you makijng this video. I started sketching after looking at your IG and your course and I obsess over not having the right colours at all times. And you just showed me that it doesn't matter in the slightest

[@levisimpson516]

I'm glad you took the time to do this, especially for those who enjoy your work and are struggling to get started as an artist. Us artists can have a lot of hang-ups with our own art and even seeing our own progress. I like to recommend that people look at their old past sketchbooks from time to time to get a reminder as to how far they've come. I do this with my Figure/Life drawing class I go to every other week. I've got years of sketchbooks from it at this point and it's fun to sometimes look at those older past ones and see how much better my anatomy has become. Great video man, I've been following your work on Instagram for a few years now and I've always enjoy it quite a bit. You have a great sense of design and style in your imagery. I need to get out and do a bit more urban sketching again, it's such a fun practice. I go by @levisimpson55 on IG. I mostly draw my own creatures, characters and my Fiancée. Haha. Cheers! :D

[@housesketcher]

Thanks for sharing Levi!! I'll check out your IG and say hi there!👍🏻🍀

[@ΚυριακήΓαγλία]

With every new sketch all the better! Congratulations!

[@dariawilford8489]

Thanks for this video, it's really motivational! I've tried redrawing other artists' works so far, but after watching this I want to try to sketch from a photo.

[@housesketcher]

Photos can be a big help. Regular sketching, from photos or live, is the best approach🍀

[@Frank.Citizen]

Thank you so much for sharing ❤️ this is really inspiring

[@2bravomike]

Very encouraging for a beginner like me

[@housesketcher]

Don’t ever be discouraged!! Start in your first sketchbook. The nice thing about sketchbooks is you can take a look back htough time. It is a wonderful time machine!🍀

[@StephenBell]

Inspiring as always, Albert. Thank you.

[@housesketcher]

You're welcome Stephen!🍀

[@donaldnewton4947]

Very encouraging. I'm trying to get started and I like yourself have very rigid background coming from architecture and design. Maybe there's hope....

[@beckyvandergriff4155]

Thanks for sharing! Your art is amazing!

[@housesketcher]

Thank you!!🙏🏻

[@sandischw7474]

Thank you for sharing! It is very inspiring!!

[@housesketcher]

Very nice too hear! Thank you! 🙏🏻🍀✨

[@BilliamBakeshere]

i really felt in love with your vibrant and lively style, Albert! as an architect i am used to sketch as well but as more n more is shifted to pc work i started sketching every day a 2min sketch with random items at my home. than i more n more often used extra time at work to sketch with whatever pen or pencil i got and i became so much better just from these short day sketches. its kinda strange to me that in university i wasnt really good nor interested in sketching but it turned out that at the time i just wasnt interested and for an architecture student my skills were average at max. the last 1,5 years i sketched probably more than in my whole life before and well turns out i am pretty good at it :) So i can just agree with you encouraging everyone to start with whatever pen and whatever object to sketch on whatever! :) it doesnt even have to feel like exercise at all once you take the tip from this video: just get used to the idea that there ll always be the next page waiting for another sketch cheers, Bill PS: i did your domestica-course and ever since i am hooked with this "looseness" of sketches

[@housesketcher]

Thanks for sharing this positive story Bill!!! That is exactly what I would like people to see. And you confirmed it with your story. Regular sketching will inevitably lead to improvement. And think you for joining me in the course on the Domestika platform!! 🙏🏻🍀

[@michaeltalbot8242]

Excellent I recently found a box of twin tipped water based markers 24 colours in the UK in an art shop for£15. So I'm going to use your idea of viewing from our front window. And your Instagram as my examples, which me luck here I go 😊👍

[@anick6265]

So much talent since the beginning

[@housesketcher]

Thank you so much🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@jeannettevandeloop]

I really like your sketching style! Thank you for sharing! Would you consider making a progress video of a motorcycle ( as ridesketcher 😉) My husband wants me to sketch his motorcycle so it would be very helpfull 🫣

[@housesketcher]

I'll look into that!! Sounds like a nice plan🍀

[@MedaHalmaciu]

Do you mostly draw from photos or from life? I find it so much easier to draw from photos, but I feel like I am faking it when I do. I just wanted to know your perspective. And thanks so much for being an inspiration.

[@housesketcher]

I understand the feeling! But don't worry at all! I mostly sketch from photos too! The important thing is to sketvh!🍀

[@Skeebee]

Ever tried Leuchtturm 1917 sketchbooks?

[@Tohhmo1]

Does Your wife have instagram acount where can we see her art? And can You tell us Your age Albert?

[@housesketcher]

Hi, yes she has! Here it is: instagram.com/niekart And my age is 62. I grew up with the original Star Trek :-)