Ultimate Guide to Sketchbooks and Paper

I like the idea to draw only for fun, only to observe the real world and simple draw, anymore, just fun, study, practice and draw a lot

Heck! I didn't know there was this many paper types! I now need to try em' all! Imagine if there was a sketch book with all of these paper types within it? That's be really nice to get people out of their confort zone and try new mediums for each type!

I have A4 sketchbook it's quite big

i like cheap paper like printer paper for a stupid sketch it make me feel comfort about it

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Very useful presentation. Thank you!

Been drawing when the covid-19 pandemic began. Started to burn out after 2022 and didn't touch a pencil for months. Now that I found an art course for the average artist to comprehend, I'm thankful. I don't know how far I can go, but its a start.

The first couple minutes were epic advice for me.

is A4 or A3 better as a beginning beginner because i do have both and i do need to stress that ive never dont this in school or anywhere else because we did textiles no sketch just on the sewing machine straight away lead to many very wonky bags but yh please do let me know.

I watched this video by the begining of 2023 and I can't say how grateful I was for deciding to watch this. Your advice is such a game changing for me. I started to throw away all my expectations of creating a masterpiece on a sketchbook and started to draw messily on every sketchbook I got. I finished three sketchbook by the begining of this year. Now I bring my sketchbook anywhere with me. It feels great just to doodle and trying new things with tools I have. Drawing became so so much fun again ❤❤❤🎉 Thank you so much mr. Proko 😭😭😭

I had no idea why my drawings with colour pencils was grainy and very textured….I’ve only been drawing on sketch paper because i didn’t know there was any difference.
Thank god i came across your video Stan. Thank you so much 🙏🏼

Proko: “they keep your work chronological”
Me: opens random pages and just start drawing regardless of order and embracing the chaos 😂

Hi Stan
, I always practice on A3 and A4 printer paper , and never use better quality paper like Fabriano or Canson , until I want to draw something I want to keep for long time , I don't have sketchbook, and always confused when I want to buy one for on the go sketching , so should I buy a cheap sketchbook with low quality paper for quick outdoor sketches , quick studies and gesture drawing , or go for a high quality sketchbook??

I hate sketch books

the first advice really suits me
I usually throw my sketchbook on the wall for no absolute reason

What’s the toned paper called that’s used as skin tone

It starts with a M

Please and thank you

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That's me. I'm always like God, this sucks oh boy I suck at doing this.

For me the best way to train myself to not be precious about my work was, at the end of each life drawing class I would immediately throw all my sketches in the bin. That probably seems extreme; I know there's value in re-evaluating old drawings, but when you know nobody is ever going to see your practice work you become a lot less worried about the end result and you're able to be much more present, take risks, and be less anxious about making mistakes. Personally I found that quite liberating and my drawings became a lot more bold as a result.

Thank you this helped me alot! :D

I don't like huge sketchbooks, mine is always A5, no smaller no larger (that's about 6x8"). By sketchbook I mean a book full of first attempts, like my ongoing art journal. It's not a place where I'd put serious"work." I use a fully bound book with heavy covers, 130-ish GSM paper non-perforated. That's the book I use to test out pens, ink, materials, techniques, effects. If I wanted to sketch a tiger up a tree and I've never tried that before, that's where I'm going to practise relative sizes, positions and looks. The finished drawing or painting goes on much bigger paper, never in this sketchbook.
I got drawn into art in my late 40s driven by a need to illustrate children's novels I'd written. I'm talking about traditional pen-&-ink sketches in black-&-white, although I've started working in colour as well. Unlike certain other illustrators (bizarrely) i always use permanent, lightfast materials whether I'm doodling, drawing or painting. It seems crazy to me to buy drawing ink you know isn't lightfast when it's just as easy to get stuff that is.
Originally I was going to do all my artwork with a drawing program on a PC. I'm so glad I didn't!

Very good lessons

My entire first two sketchbook is full of doodles and weird ass faces

Hellp# proko

Is the course he talked about at the end of the video free or not?! Please answer

Would love a large spiral bound watercolor sketchbook.

Прохожу курс с авто переводом на русский. Это первый структурированный курс для рисования, который я пока встретила)

Is it better to practice sketch with a pencil or a ball point pen?
The graphite transfers to the other sheets and hands and needs a fixing spray or it will fade, but with a pen you cannot erase mistakes.

If you're on a budget, use plain printer paper.

Stan is the type of friend I should have been surrounding myself with in school and my youth. I'd be a completely different person today. You are the company you keep.

Multimedia rules! Works with almost everything!

What would I use to seal a kraftpaper covered notebook to prevent oil? Thank you!

awesome

I like using 160 gsm paper for drawing because when i sketch i pierce a hole in my paper

I just bought a NicPro drawing kit. It comes with pens,markers and all the starter things 😅

getting back into drawing but, this time actually learn the fundamentals! Just freehanding drawing since elementary to my early 20's .
I miss it and the escape it creates for me. This time I want to learn how to understand and know what I'm doing..
I am 38 now ..😅 it's never to late !

Kaiju No.8 inspired me again

Does anybody know what kind of paper Canson sketch pads use?
I kinda like the cream rough texture of it but i couldn't find individual papers sold that are similar to it

My job gives us legal pads if we need to write anything down. I never need to. I have a stack piling up in my work locker that are full of sketches. Mostly of my coworker.

Can you use a iPad to do these courses?

Should we start with a large surface like large sketchbook or a smaller one.

I use brown paper bags 👏🏽

As a person who doesnt have, and want a sketchbook because i usually will waste the paper or its too small or the opposite. Too big i usually get nervous of using a sketchbook so i use a blank piece of A4 printer paper! (as he said) and for the progress check i write the time in the edge of the paper! :D