When you want to capture a bigger scene than for example the mug of coffee in front of you, you might feel overwhelmed by all the information - where to start and how to translate all of it onto your page?

This is part 2 in the three-parts series about capturing a bigger scene.
Where do you start, how do you draw a scene that feels kind of overwhelming?

On my Patreon Page, patrons voted for the next Draw Tip Tuesday subject. The option that got the most votes: drawing a Bigger Scene.
There are many ways to do this, so I decided to do this in a three-part series. Today: Part 1.

Today I am showing you a Sketchbook from the archives.
Once I discovered the sketchbook habit (as in, keeping a sketchbook as a visual journal), a lot of things changed for me as an artist.

Today we are working with two colors, representing two layers in our drawing: the foreground and the background. We are drawing with one continuous drawing with each color, so that we keep moving our line and can't get into details or start getting fussy.

Today I am showing you my latest Sketchbook. I finished it at the end of 2021, and it's filled with lockdown selfies and drawings from new angles.

Today I am sharing an edited version of a recorded live online drawing party with the Draw Tip Tuesday Club Members on Patreon.

What do you usually start with when you draw a scene?

I use my sketchbook as a visual diary, and it gives me ideas to start projects and challenges for myself. What project can you start?

You may have good intentions to draw every day, but you have to do the work. Make it happen. Take the responsibility, instead of blaming circumstances. Drawing makes you happy, so don't skip it. Treat yourself to that time for you and your sketchbook!

In today's sketchbook tour, I am talking about how you can sometimes fall out of love with a sketchbook, before you've finished it.
It's OK. If it doesn't bring you joy anymore, it's a good reason to move on and start fresh.
However, do not give up on a sketchbook just because you feel like you 'messed it up' by making a bad drawing.

Today, set up a little still life on your table. Let's draw! But we are not drawing all the elements that we see in this still life. Instead, focus on the spaces around the still life. It helps to have a contrasting background, so you can focus on the background only, and spot bits of the negative spaces better.

I'll take you outside to the park, to enjoy the last bits of bright yellow fall colors, using the background wash I made in preparation.

We'll follow Vincent van Gogh's example, who would always be sketching and making studies of things, always learning. He may have used models for it, but your non-drawing hand can model just as well.

Everything is interesting when you draw it - which means inspiration is everywhere. Even a ratty old t-shirt, bought many years ago as a souvenir, can be a very interesting subject to draw, because it can hold memories that you then capture in your drawing.

In today’s video, I am taking you out on location, to draw in public. I went for a walk and decided on a whim to take advantage of the beautiful fall weather, by finding a good spot to sit and draw in my sketchbook.

I just finished this project that took me quite a while: I captured all the shoes I owned, in a watercolor accordion sketchbook (Hahnemuhle ZigZag book 14x14 cm). I’ll show it to you in today’s video.

Today, I am challenging my inner perfectionist, by deliberately letting go of control and drawing with my non-dominant hand.

Will you try it today too? It's a lot of fun!

At the beginning of October, I went on a 12-day trip to Greece with The Blue Walk, where I taught a group of artists how to fill their travel sketchbooks. Travel with me today, as I take you on a sketchbook tour of my Greece Sketchbooks.

Today I am showing you my favorite tools. Because you asked.
I am showing the things that found their way into my pencil case and stayed there. Of course I have tried many other tools, and I do swap out pens or pencils every so often, but these seem to be the evergreens.