This sketchbook has had many lives! 🤩SKETCHBOOK TOUR🤩

[@thinkerdreamersketcherspy]

*WOW* 😍😍😍 Such a juicy, delicious sketchbook! It was fun to see all the different stages of the book, but the looser, colourful illustrations of animals were my absolute favourites (the spread of cows and otters! ❤️). I wish I could learn to do something like that.

[@monkeymintaka]

It went through many stages :) I liked those too. Thankyou ☺

[@BunnyOnTheCoast]

You're such an inspiration! Love all your stuff even when you don't like it, we love it!!!🥰

[@monkeymintaka]

Ahhh Thankyou! That’s so sweet of you 🥰

[@marielouiseweeksb33attitud33]

Fantastic bold colours. Love this sketchbook. It’s things like this that makes me want to draw

[@monkeymintaka]

That’s so cool to hear! I always get inspired by others sketchbook tours 🥰

[@tiffanyc8837]

I really love the randomness!

[@monkeymintaka]

Thanks 😂 me too

[@traceyelliott6891]

What a wonderful treasure to own. There are SO many beautiful pages

[@monkeymintaka]

🥰🥰 Thankyou!

[@ImaniTolliver]

Love, love, love! Your colors are so yummy!

[@monkeymintaka]

Glad you like them!

[@doloresh.4515]

Love it

[@monkeymintaka]

Thanks!

[@mereditha4363]

LOVE your wildcats and unicorns!

[@monkeymintaka]

Thanks so much :)

[@Bonnie-r4b]

Although I enjoy seeing your animals and characters I really like seeing your landscape drawings/paintings!

[@monkeymintaka]

Thankyou :) I have a lot of houses/village photos saved on my phone which I wan to draw soon. but I am a bit over JUST landscapes for the moment.

[@gabbyschmittart]

Always love your sketchbook tours

[@monkeymintaka]

Thanks Gabby :)

[@jaimeo2312]

Your sketchbook is amazing! I love that it contains so many different ideas and styles. But they're still all April. Thank you for sharing it with us. It was a joy to watch.

[@monkeymintaka]

Thankyou so much! That's so kind of you to say 🤗

[@fionahannon_art]

Absolutely scrumptious sketchbook! I totally loooove your art style. The chicken in the colourful garden is amazing, and the unicorns….. omg 😍😍😍

[@monkeymintaka]

thanks Fiona! I really loved those unicorns too :)

[@debl3063]

Beautiful. I'm still hoping that bear and bee in the woods turns into a postcard. What a fun and colorful sketchbook. Thank you for sharing.

[@monkeymintaka]

Oh yes! I would love to do that. I might do a new sketchbook postcard series 🥰🥰🥰

[@SophieMcPike]

LOOOOOOVE this April!

[@monkeymintaka]

Thanks Sophie 🥰

[@KatieCannonDesigns]

this one turned out so fun. I love all the trees and the little house in the valley spread

[@monkeymintaka]

Thanks Katie! I did like the trees afterward but at the time it was so boring 🙈

[@marie-michelemartel4212]

Your animals are so beautiful 🤩

[@monkeymintaka]

🥰🥰

[@JRose-zk1ni]

Yes, Apirl these are beautifu!!! I LOVE drawing trees...You had mentioned in one of your streams how tedious you find drawing trees but bravo to you!! THese are really lovely!!

[@monkeymintaka]

I do like drawing trees but I find them difficult! That's why I wanted to study them, but then it just became a school exercise! I need to find a middle ground :)

[@MsRealityrocks]

Love your sketchbook, thanks so much for sharing!

[@monkeymintaka]

Yay! I’m glad you liked the video

[@jayne3944]

SOOOO BEAUTIFUL!!

[@monkeymintaka]

Thank you!!

[@ALLJArt]

So much fun, beautiful art making me want to get my sketchbook out, too! Thanks for sharing, April!

[@monkeymintaka]

Thanks Amanda :) Glad you enjoyed it.

[@JRose-zk1ni]

The pink flowers are GORGEOUS...they look so delicate - just beautiful!!

[@monkeymintaka]

Thanks so much 😊

[@impish22]

my favorite, love the sketches !!

[@monkeymintaka]

Thankyou!

[@sketchbookscheming]

Love your tour and seeing all the phases your sketchbook went through! The trees and dogs are so cool. I loved your mushrooms and cat teapots too 😃 (btw, I am loving my first birbfest 🐧)

[@monkeymintaka]

Thankyou! I'm so glad you are enjoying birbfest :)

[@vanessahanley264]

It's brilliant April! Thanks for sharing. I feel energized & re-motivated. You get so much done!

[@monkeymintaka]

Ahh that’s so great to hear :) Maybe I should watch this then as I need a bit of energising 😂

[@barbarabrady1267]

Great tour! Beautiful work! ❤ while I was watching this I got and email alert that my Patreon was renewing for the year, how did they know 😜💕🤩

[@monkeymintaka]

Thankyou! What funny timing 🙈🙈

[@barbarabrady1267]

@@monkeymintaka it was 😀

[@virginiavaccaro7695]

God bless this mess :) (LOVELY!!!)

[@monkeymintaka]

😂😂😂

[@marie-michelemartel4212]

Hi April, did you film the process for the houses? They are amazing and I like to draw houses.

[@monkeymintaka]

Thankyou :) I can’t remember sorry, but if I did it would probably be in another video or livestream. I don’t record everything though.

[@jlu9201]

was 2:12 with goauche paint? i love the style and colors. also wondering what colors you would recommend to start with for posca paint? i got a set of primary colors and am realizing maybe it's too limiting for quick sketching...

[@monkeymintaka]

I think it was will the so flat matte acrylic paints. They are nice. For posca pens…I don’t really use those, I like the molotow and liquitex pens. But for any paint pen I would just get colours you like. If you already use certain colours you could try to replicate a few of them in a different medium.