Your SKETCHBOOK is supposed to be a Mess, not a Masterpiece

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Florent Farges - arts

Florent Farges - arts

Күн бұрын

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@FlorentFargesarts
@FlorentFargesarts Жыл бұрын
📒✏🖌🖍Tell me, what does your Sketchbook look like📒✏🖌🖍? Is it a Mess or a Masterpiece?
@viniciuspaolini4007
@viniciuspaolini4007 Жыл бұрын
As in an old japanese saying, every person has three faces. The first that the person shows to everyone. The second that is shown to the closest people. Third is never shown. The last one defines my sketchbook.
@lmiller1356
@lmiller1356 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video. My sketchbooks are for planning, sketching out ideas for future pieces & practicing composition, perspective , things I want to improve on (I also write ideas/notes to myself too). I always felt like what I do in a sketchbook is “wrong” because I don’t produce pretty/finished pieces in them so I don’t show them. Now I appreciate that private space where I’m free to do what I want, everyone else sees what I do on social media in forms of painting videos or photographs but the sketchbook process is just for me.
@ssssssscrow
@ssssssscrow Жыл бұрын
Fabulous Florent! I no longer have a sketchbook for much the same reasons you state! My sketchbooks now are scrap books as most drawings for ideas are done when the idea pops up and in whatever material is to hand . I can then edit these , 80 percent ending in the bin and if I feel something has some interest , relevance or I just like the look of it ; I stick it in the book. Thankyou for your great instruction and observations!
@SchaeferArt
@SchaeferArt Жыл бұрын
This is a really great video and well put together. I like how you explain the different ways artists use sketchbooks and how you use it yourself. Gives insight into the mind of an artist. Made me want to grab a sketchbook and experiment with new ideas.
@alik2897
@alik2897 Жыл бұрын
two years ago I started focus more on quantity in my sketchbooks, not quality, because I realised I rendered anatomical incorect sketches for sake of looking good... but now I just sketch. I dont care anymore. I often do exercises on time - like faces and gestures in two minutes and I got better at drawing tremendously! Nobody looking in my sketchbooks anyway, it's very liberating this way
@trisht5064
@trisht5064 Жыл бұрын
i am much the same ! and i dont care who sees them 😅 its usually only me . i think they are a place to do make pencil/pen miles
@turdleyurtle
@turdleyurtle Жыл бұрын
I feel like James Gurney's sketchbooks aren't "practice" works, they tend to be plein art paintings fully done, just in a sketchbook. It's important to remember that when looking at them - those beautiful paintings are fully done paintings, mostly Alla prima, just done in a portable form. Totally different from practice/academic study, and thumbnail sketchbooks! I do those, and thumbnail or practice like you do. Also as someone who studied art history forever I LOVE imperfect sketches and sketchbooks, the scribbles, mistakes, various thumbnails, etc.
@mountainside26
@mountainside26 Жыл бұрын
I love your honesty- calling yourself out! Very refreshing. 😊
@ArtByHazel
@ArtByHazel Жыл бұрын
Thank you. ⚡️ Embracing the mess is helpful because that’s how you learn anyway.
@TheCompleteGuitarist
@TheCompleteGuitarist Жыл бұрын
I love art in book format. So I love a good art book. I love well made illustrated children's books and graphic novels especially when they are wordless. So many talented people working in these small formats. I also love medieval psalters. Even Van Dyck started out making incredibly tiny drawings and paintings for these prayer books. And of course who doesn't love a great youtube sketchbook video tour. As you say there are some incredibly talented people out there who produced beautifully 'manicured' sketch books that are a work of art in their own right. I went to art school in London in the 80s and still own one or two of my early sketch books and I can honestly say that on every level they are awful. I am not a professional artist but I still draw and want to get back into painting and I use sketchbooks now as a way resolving problems, either design wise, or technique or just as a way of exploring ideas without commiting myself to a final work. They contain some interesting peices but as a unit they are not pretty to look at and fairly inconsistent. The best thing I ever did was date a page or work so I can keep track of progress.
@FlorentFargesarts
@FlorentFargesarts Жыл бұрын
Thanks for your comment. Indeed, keeping track of your progress is huge, I didn't talk about about and I always forget to date my sketches as well but it's can be a great benefit to the experience.
@exhortationsofanartist8118
@exhortationsofanartist8118 Жыл бұрын
The only way I can describe my sketchbooks is "Glorious Chaos".😅 On some of my finished sketches, I like to try out new materials to see what will work on top of different materials, and it ends up looking like a little kid got a hold of my sketchbook.
@FlorentFargesarts
@FlorentFargesarts Жыл бұрын
Haha, that's the spirit 😂😂👍👍 Seems perfect to me!
@sujanithtottempudi2991
@sujanithtottempudi2991 Жыл бұрын
Perfect 👌
@TjVoelkerArt
@TjVoelkerArt 5 ай бұрын
What a relief! I almost feel like I'm pressed for time and if I have time to sketch, I'd rather do actual art. I was beginning to feel pressure to do a sketchbook as well, but you have given me the permission to just not worry about it. Thank you!
@dotbase3PF
@dotbase3PF Жыл бұрын
You’re my favorite fine artist. I appreciate your opinion on sketchbooks. My stroke technique improved from listening to you. Thank you!! I see my sketchbooks as engaging with my imagination. Showing myself thoughts… I’m visual, auditory, technical. Then adding sticky notes and annotating creative art direction. I have a tendance towards intense details and depth of comprehension of overall production about the role my imagination plays in my creative art process. I’ve had 100s of sketchbooks. I’m at the point where I am keeping three sketchbooks to keep track of multiple art projects and creative endeavors.
@mikel4757
@mikel4757 Жыл бұрын
Great Video! Very liberating to hear. I simply like to doodle in a sketchbook. Sometimes an idea for a painting my come from it. Even in meetings at work I doodle while listening. Actually helps me focus better.
@erniecelindsey8418
@erniecelindsey8418 Жыл бұрын
I use my sketchbook to develop my style and experiment with color. My paintings and drawings are usually pretty finished in my sketchbook. I finish them for myself cause I like to go back and look at them and see how I am progressing.
@allenvoss7977
@allenvoss7977 Жыл бұрын
My time is very limited, so must’ve Caravaggio. I sketch it out like you. I want most of my time spent with the paint brush, not the pencil.
@nancie66612
@nancie66612 9 ай бұрын
I use mine to practice, sometimes travel sketching or colour mixing, experiment and play and hopefully improve. I love seeing beautiful sketchbooks but for me it's more about practicing in private, trying things to see what works and what doesn't.
@josheridan9746
@josheridan9746 Жыл бұрын
This is great - I've never understood why there is so much effort put into sketchbooks, and now you have given me permission to use them in a way that makes sense... ❤
@kimberlyjeffers1623
@kimberlyjeffers1623 Жыл бұрын
Just like you, as a place to hammer out ideas. I’m embracing that more and more these days.
@majer__art
@majer__art Жыл бұрын
Brother I love your videos so much! God bless you!! Greetings from Austria Vienna 🇦🇹 ❤️ 🙏 🙌 ❤️ you're really really awesome! I follow you since a long time! Keep up the great work!!!! 🎉
@FlorentFargesarts
@FlorentFargesarts Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much, I appreciate ❤🙏
@krismaki757
@krismaki757 Жыл бұрын
My sketchbook has some magazine pictures I've cut out to use in the future for drawing or painting, and a few drawings as I'm trying to improve that skill.
@AnimaedArte
@AnimaedArte Жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing 😊
@bencourtwright
@bencourtwright Жыл бұрын
Love all of your videos
@FlorentFargesarts
@FlorentFargesarts Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much 😊✨
@sapoley8638
@sapoley8638 Жыл бұрын
Great video. I sketch and doodle somehow loosely, with whatever type of pen I have at the moment, and very frequently not always on my sketchbook! For me, creating a tight or a more finished sketch it’s somehow rewarding, but it normally develops after I’m doodling that idea for while. Many times I used the “final” sketch as a digital icon on my communication media. Sometimes the smaller digital icon looks better than the original.
@Kartusink
@Kartusink Жыл бұрын
I tend to often treat my sketchbooks as a portfolio in itself and that quite often holds me back from experimentation. I need to try to do what you're suggesting in the video!
@SmartStr33t
@SmartStr33t Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this important point. I am a musician who enjoys drawing as well. I bought a sketchbook but have not drawn anything in it because of the KZbin-perpetuated idea that a sketchbook should also be a work of art. Think I need to break the back of it and just do some doodles to get started.
@Jules_Pew
@Jules_Pew Жыл бұрын
Forum I used to belong to recommended drawing a dick on page one. There - it's ruined now, so might as well just use it for crap. Have fun.
@dancordova1004
@dancordova1004 Жыл бұрын
GREAT VIDEO! My goal is to one day paint, I have been using my sketchbook to become better at drawing. I feel like my drawing has to be very strong before I attempt to paint. I don’t want to end up with a bunch of bad paintings. I feel like I’m almost at the point to try to transfer my drawings to canvas. Your grid technique is very smart! Thanks for sharing!
@trisht5064
@trisht5064 Жыл бұрын
hi florent i agree with the way you use your sketch book. i sketch for drawing practice i never finish a sketch 😂 i just go with the flow when im fed up or no more time i close the sb until another day. but what i feel having watched your great video is i could just right my ideas in there too! 👌instead of a tiny note i either loose or ignore 😅 thank you florent. i am going to buy a few more sketch books and have them around the house🎉
@elleeo1495
@elleeo1495 Жыл бұрын
Sketchbooks have so many varied uses. I have several. They are mainly for practice. I might use one in the future for studies of specific subjects, such as animals in many poses. I do love a beautifully designed sketchbook, but I don't have any that I would want published for all to see.
@calystagamma
@calystagamma Жыл бұрын
Yes yes yes 🙏 love this.
@theghostofsabertache9049
@theghostofsabertache9049 Жыл бұрын
It’s the same with journaling. The internet will show you journals that are works of art filled with perfect calligraphy and watercolours on all the pages. The reality, if my own journals are anything to go by is pages of sometimes messy hastily written notes on train journeys and lunch breaks and maybe a few rough pencil sketches of diy projects or doodles of plants when I’m bored or have a bit of spare time. What you see on the internet are art projects not organic journals that are filled with the detritus and small notes accrued over the course of an average day like shopping lists, task lists, random phone numbers you jotted down for one reason or another and never wrote a name next to so 6 months later you I’ve no idea who that number belongs to a notebook or journal is a realistic snapshot in to a the writers life not a display piece that’s written for the admiration of others who may read it.
@Jules_Pew
@Jules_Pew Жыл бұрын
My sketchbooks are a mess too. Sometimes I'll spend longer on a sketch if I'm enjoying it, but quite often it's just polishing a turd. I do travel with one as I often arrive early, so take it out to while the time away sketching what's around.
@thomasmacdonald8145
@thomasmacdonald8145 Жыл бұрын
I think your approach to sketchbooks is great. Used more as a stepping stone towards final paintings. I think if you’re a beginner artist and doing more studying per say, stick to newsprint or loose sheets until you feel you’re at a stage where you ready to complete finished works. Until then nothing is precious and it’s a lot cheaper!
@socratesthecabdriver
@socratesthecabdriver Жыл бұрын
My sketchbooks 🤔 I found that I really don't like books that the pages are fixed because they get stuck on the second or third page psychologically thing for sure, I do most of my sketching in the taxi while waiting for passengers on the taxi ranks,my favorite is spiral books just because I can easily tear out a page and gift it,because I know that the main goal is canvas,,still on pencil color scares me still got material paints but don't use them as much as I should..I don't think I have the peace of mind for it yet..I do spend some time on pencil when I think it's good enough.
@sujanithtottempudi2991
@sujanithtottempudi2991 Жыл бұрын
Very true and useful video
@rajeshvishwakarma7943
@rajeshvishwakarma7943 Жыл бұрын
Your videos are very helpful
@phyllisriley1013
@phyllisriley1013 Жыл бұрын
Fluent what is your favorite sketchbook?
@greekveteran2715
@greekveteran2715 Жыл бұрын
What's the best paper or sketchbook for Red chalk (Conte/Kohinoor)? Please anybody?
@rainerburmeister5758
@rainerburmeister5758 Жыл бұрын
My sketchbooks are very chaotic, lots of unfinished drawings, color exercises and random stuff.
@pagansart
@pagansart Жыл бұрын
When I was in school we were taught that our sketchbooks were basically about development of an idea. That’s it. Ugly or pretty didn’t matter, it was about reaching a point where you become comfortable with your vision and have worked out any hiccups you may have encountered with execution. I really really want to be one of those people who can create gorgeous tomes but I just ain’t. My sketchbooks inevitably become ugly repositories of misshapen ideas…lol
@welcome1875
@welcome1875 9 ай бұрын
Embrace imperfect👍
@Flintknife
@Flintknife Жыл бұрын
Grouping sketchbooks in to one or other of the 'camps' probably doesn't cover how most people use them. I've used them for over 40 years as a basis for ideas, small finished works, notes, colours, composition, scrapbooks etc, all mixed in the same book. My guess is that's the most common use. Also, they are a good place for experiment and fun.
@Herr_Vorragender
@Herr_Vorragender Жыл бұрын
Fortunately my language allows a difference between messy and tidy sketches. 😅 For the former we use "Schmierzettel" (smear paper). For the latter we call it "Skizze" (sketch). Because what's the point of using a binded book, when I only brain storm ideas into it 🤷‍♂ A piece of crumpled up recycled paper that came as stuffing in a post box is plenty fine for brain storming, I think 🤔
@manicangel7796
@manicangel7796 Жыл бұрын
Paradoxically, a chaotic, messy, barely describable words with x-d out pictures can make a notebook a masterpiece. Yes?
@kerriemckinstry-jett8625
@kerriemckinstry-jett8625 Жыл бұрын
My sketchbook is non-existent. I do sometimes make sketches of I'm trying to work some composition or other out, but they're loose papers which end up everywhere. Then again, I *only* do art for fun & in a very haphazard manner.
@shuvoDhar.5537
@shuvoDhar.5537 Жыл бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@FlorentFargesarts
@FlorentFargesarts Жыл бұрын
✨🙏🎨😊
@blackbox5906
@blackbox5906 Жыл бұрын
🥃
@mematron
@mematron Жыл бұрын
ALWAYS CHASE PERFECTION! There's nothing wrong with expecting the best and reaching for it.
@haidaralhaibi4416
@haidaralhaibi4416 Жыл бұрын
U have over 45 sketchbook ..I draw and paint without any preparations. And it looks perfect...some artists are perfectionist...i think this is destructive..
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