Wowie, ever since my last journal about my sketchbook I’ve almost completely finished the thing!! I’m glad that it didn’t take an entire year or more to fill the thing up, but I do feel a slight twinge of sadness that I’ll no longer be carrying it around with me. I really feel like I poured a lot of myself into it, and the way it’s been and decorated always makes me so happy. Regardless though, I’m still excited to start customising my new sketch book and work with a different size again.

In this journal though, I wanted to show off some of my favourite pages/ page spreads from this sketch book here. I prefer to do a journal personally, as I can say a little bit more and I can share more than one image with the image links. I wouldn’t say that the drawings here are my best, but my goal with these is just to have fun and experiment a bit more with traditional mediums and collage.

This one is from late March, I had a lot of fun with these drawings. ^ェ^ Pretty sure I was at a cafe with my mum when I drew on the left hand page, and so they’re not very well throughout, but I did have fun with the crayons. Think I wasn’t happy with how the red pen drawing ended up, so I covered the half of the drawing with critter lol.

The right hand page contains a few drawings of my oc Harper, but without their accessories because otherwise I’d go crazy and start killing people I think.
I don’t really love that I used purple on Harpers mane on this page, I just think it doesn’t fit, and the rainbow gradient doesn’t compliment it either. I did it bc that’s just what Harper’s default colour palette looks like, even if I somewhat knew it wouldn’t work out and uhhh, well, it didn't, but oh well lol. I still really love the pink Harper in the bottom right corner, just think she looks so cutes.

These drawings are a little more recent than the ones above. Nothing in particular inspired them I don’t think. I was also at a cafe when I drew these. Recently I’ve been drawings these little abstract hares, i like to draw them to experiment with gestures and just for fun. Hares as an animal do have a bit of personal meaning to me as well, although I don’t think I could explain it very well here, so mayhaps another time.

The rainbow fox like creature on the left was also just intuition lol, I wanted to try blending a bit more with my crayons because I’d forgotten how fun it is to use them. I didn’t really know what else to draw or add onto the left page so it’s kind of empty lol. I think I was thinking way too hard about it and then just lost all of my motivation to properly fill it out.

And lastly this is a 100% collage page made with a postcard from the Efteling theme park featuring one of their animatronic mascot characters. It was given to me by a friend who had went there and I felt very endeared by the little character. For a while it was just sitting there loose in my sketchbook until I got really bloody bored one day and felt like doing something creative, but without having to do any drawing and that’s how this happened lmao. That, and I also felt it’d be a waste not to use the postcard for something.

This was probably one of the funnest things to work on. ^^ I tried to make it so that the colours at the top of the page were a bit warmer, and to have a sort of transition between those warm colours to the cooler ones. That was done using washi tapes. I do this thing sometimes when I’m bored and I’ll colour assort my washi tapes collection into rainbow order, or just to make pleasing colour palettes. And that’s how I ended up choosing most of the colours for this page lol. The Glaceon sticker was a gift from another friend from his visit to comic con. I don’t know who the artist is unfortunately ｡ﾟ(ﾟ´ω`ﾟ)ﾟ｡

Some new goals of mine that I’d like to achieve with my next sketch book are definitely to use my acrylic markers more, as well as my poscas since they’ve also been neglected by me lol.

I’d also like to at least try and draw more humans from time to time or have pages where I try and step out of my comfort zone a bit more for the sake of practice and study rather than just drawing for fun or trying to make things look pretty. Perhaps I’ll even buy a second cheaper sketchbook specifically for more experimental sketches, or studies, so that I can keep more of my self indulgent and customised sketchbook separate from my studies.

I definitely still wanna do more collages and organised page spreads since I love doing them so much. One thing I think I’d like to try and do is do like, a collage page for the first page of my sketchbook that shows all of the things I’m interested in, sort of like an introduction page of sorts. I’ll see how that pans out eventually though.

I believe that’s all I have left to say really, uh, thanks for reading or just looking at the images if you didn’t feel like reading alllllthat lol.🐑