5 tips to start your SKETCHBOOK in 2025

📕 New year, new sketchbook!

In this video I’m sharing my favorite tips to make it easier to start (and maintain) a sketchbook throughout the year.

📕 I’ll also share how I start the new tiny sketchbook I recently bought. The white pages are wonderful, and so is the small size, which makes it very portable and also less intimidating, at least for me.

-- When you start a sketchbook, do you spend a lot of time with the first page? Or even pondering what to put on the first page? Or do you just jump in? Let me know in the comments, and if you have other tips that I didn’t mention, please share!

-- Materials used in birbfest sketching (part 2 of this video). Birbfest is a one-month-drawing-challenge on Instagram, hosted by April ‪@monkeymintaka‬

📕 Royal talens art creation 7x14cm sketchbook, 140gsm white paper (these white paper sketchbooks are unfortunately rather difficult to find in the US. Watch out for the sketchbooks with either the cork cover, or with a Vermeer painting cover, those are the ones with the white paper, not the cream colored paper).

🖊️ Brushpens: Royal talens Ecoline and Sakura Koi brushpens

✏️ Colored pencils: Caran d’Ache Luminance 036 and 639, Mitsubishi Uni watercolor light carmine 827, Prismacolor lemon yellow 915, Derwent chromaflow Strawberry 0600 (I do not recommend the Chromaflow, they snap too easily but will use what I have), Faber Castell Albrecht Dürer Light green 171 and cobalt green 156

🖍️ Crayon: Caran d’ache neocolor 2 (water soluble) ultramarine blue

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:38 Part 1
00:54 Tip 1
01:04 Tip 2
02:54 Tip 3
03:18 Recap 1
03:48 Tip 4
04:07 Tip 5
04:42 Bonus tip
05:27 Final recap
06:12 Part 2
07:13 Page 1 bird
07:29 Lady Ross turaco
08:28 Piping plover
09:23 Sneak peek