pronounced "Kōsha”
I’m an artist and creative entrepreneur living in the Netherlands. I love drawing and I do it every day. On this website, I hope to inspire you to develop a drawing practice too, because it can make you feel good.
Photo by Rick Keus
Dedicating a sketchbook to a certain topic or theme could be a great way to give yourself an extra nudge or push or motivation, but it could also become kind of a chore when you isolate that one particular thing in one sketchbook. When you keep a bunch of sketchbooks for several challenges or projects, then that might solve that problem.
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.
In last Tuesday’s video I use the continuous line technique; red for the foreground and blue for the background. It made me think of one summer a few years ago, I took this onliner(s) technique a little further.
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.
This multi-day masterclass will take place April 21 tot April 24 2022, in the German country house Waldecken10.
A few weeks ago, my father and I went for a "walk & draw" in his neighborhood. We walked and talked and when we found an interesting spot to draw, we did.
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.
I was afraid that people would look at my drawing and see how much it would suck. For a long time, I didn’t draw in public at all, because location drawing just didn’t even come up in my mind as an option. But then, when I saw other people’s work done on location, I wanted to give it a try too. So I did.
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.
When traveling, there are so many impressions, experiences and emotions. By sitting down to draw, you take it all in, and by being in the moment, you’ll capture great memories. So much more than you ever could by just taking a photograph.
