Hey! Hello everyone!
I promised a sketchbook tour... wow, months ago
and I think it's finally time to do it.
So, first of all, welcome
I think this is the first video where I actually speak
I made a poll on Instagram some months ago
asking you if you'd like this video to be in french or in english,
and you wanted it to be in french so... here I am
But not to worry, I provided subtitles for all you english speakers
And without further ado, let's talk about this little sketchbook
I had it more or less from december 2019
to november 2020
So, almost a year
It's a Goldline Clairefontaine sketchbook
it's something like 60 pages
but because I draw on both sides of the pages,
it almost doubles the number of drawings.
And now, let's dive in!
For this first page, I wanted to make a pretty illustration of Logi,
I like to start my sketchbooks with a pretty drawing
so this is a simple illustration of Logi
in watercolor and gouache for the background
with some small thumbnails over here
of poses I tested for this illustration.
And some small sketches glued to the back of the cover,
those were from before, I think.
Here is a fanart of a friend's webcomic,
his name is Duke Lox, I absolutely recommend you go check out his stuff,
it's absolutely incredible.
There. Nothing more to say here
Some small random sketches
Here I was having fun with anatomy,
I was trying to better understand how
my character Logi was structured.
So, if you don't know him, this little guy is Logi,
he is an Icelandic Dreki
which is a species that I sort of created about two years ago.
and I draw him a lot! He'll be a recurring character in this sketchbook.
He also has a human form, like you can see here.
So here I was inspired by pics I took while walking in the woods
I made these little vignettes in watercolor
It was some of the first ones I did,
and I really loved making them,
so there are a lot more to come in this sketchbook
and when I say a lot, I mean...
uh just a few actually, there aren't that many ^^"
Some costume research for human Logi
that I haven't really redrawn since,
but I don't know, at the time I wanted to draw Logi
as a sort of weird human/animal with a tail and ears
I don't know what I was thinking at the time.
Here we have some skeleton research,
I really wanted to get better at human anatomy,
and I think that understanding how bones and skulls are structured
really helps to draw humans.
And here of course are ponies
because I'll remind you that I am a Brony artist at heart,
I draw ponies.
So yeah, sometimes I come back to my roots and draw ponies in my sketchbooks.
It doesn't happen a lot anymore, but sometimes I'm bored
and I just can't help it.
Some fanarts of a webcomic
called Stand Still Stay Silent
that I highly recommend,
and these are not the last fanarts you'll see in this sketchbook,
this sketchbook is almost dedicated
to SSSS fanarts, as I say to go faster.
But these are some of my first fanarts,
and it shows, the drawings are... approximate at best.
But yeah, little drawings of Reynir and Kitty.
And we continue with the fanart of course,
still in this webcomic, there are two characters, Emil and Lalli
that I like very much,
so I can't hold myself back when I draw them
they are my little guilty pleasure of this sketchbook.
And here are some research,
because I also use this sketchbook for highschool
and in highschool we're given tasks,
here it was a scenography task, so I drew some research for that.
So in the middle of the sketches
there's sometimes highschool stuff in this sketchbook.
This, in fact, is not highschool stuff,
it was an illustration drawn from
half references / half my imagination
inspired by Iceland.
And hare are some research for the 2020 Angoulême comic contest
that I did last year.
So these were the first character design sketches,
and I think it's this sketch in particular
that made me decide on what look I would give
to the character that would eventually become Blásandi.
And after that I continued making character design sketches.
Here were some logo designs for something at school
that was never finished I think.
Here is a storyboard for the Blásandi comic,
which is very unclear, but like a lot of ths things I do,
I make sketches that I'm the only one able to understand.
Some puffin sketches...
Some more Logi research, and some small sketches I did
at a birthday party.
A page my teacher just drew on
to show me something.
Another storyboard for Blásandi that my teacher absolutely hated.
She really didn't like it
Some lynx sketches.
I like Lalli, therefore I like lynxes.
So I decided to draw a few lynxes,
these were from reference photos
and here I tried to draw a lynx closer to my personal style,
still using reference pics.
This is pretty random page,
I tried doing something but it didn't work.
Uh, I left it here but I really wanted to tear this page off
I remember I had tried to make a gouache painting just before,
which I failed miserably
and yeah, I wrote
"some days I just can't color anything"
Some little Toothless sketches, like in the old days
This is a sketch that became a digital illustration
(I'll put it somewhere one the screen)
So this is the first sketch,
in the beginning I wanted to color it directly on the sketchbook
but in the end I decided to scan it and render it digitally.
And that was a good idea, because I really like how it turned out.
Um, some research on the SSSS characters.
And here are the few pages I filled during my trip to Finland last year
I made a sort of logbook with sketches
with, of course, my little Logi.
This was in the plane
We went to a restaurant... to the Oodi library...
Obviously you can't go to Finland with talking about the Moomins...
some snowmobile,
Logi on a snowmobile, amazing... Logi in the forest! Amazing!
And this is a small watercolor painting.
I had view on the frozen sea from my hotel room in Finland,
and so I painted it in watercolor.
It's a paper I glued in my sketchbook later on.
And this is not one of my drawings!
It's one of Duke's drawings, once again, go check him out on Instagram.
A drawing of Logi saying the Icelandic sentence "þetta reddast"
which means "It'll be fine in the end",
I really like this sentence. I like to say it to myself when I'm stressed out
This is a drawing that I scanned and rendered on my computer,
I'm not a big fan of how it turned out,
but I like this idea of doing the lineart on paper,
then scan it, and add the colors digitally.
Uh, here, like it says on the page, I had no idea what I was doing
Now these are some research for a fashion project for highschool,
I wanted to make a sort of viking costume with a sheep wool cape,
the project never came to life because of lockdown.
These were exercises from pictures of people doing...
uh, I forgot the name (it was parkour ^^")
Anyways, I chose reference pics with some quite dynamic poses,
and as you can see I replaced the faces with Emil and Lalli's.
This is a sort of family portrait of almost all the characters I created
from my childhood until today.
It's a kind of family portrait of my sonas.
These are thumbnails for this illustration
which I obviously finished in digital.
Here's a sketch I never finished...
and an illustration I once again glued in my sketchbook
of a troll from SSSS,
I really never stop with SSSS in this sketchbook
Like here again, these were inspired by pictures I found on Instagram,
and I added in SSSS characters.
And also there's Logi on a tree branch.
This is probably one of my favorite pages from this sketchbook,
here, let me show it to you like this,
of course, it's Emilalli, I'm unstoppable.
And here is a sort of short comic I never really shared, I think.
Those were tests for this sketchbook's cover,
A small illustration, not very interesting,
a bit messed up, even. The paper tore when I removed the tape.
And here are more illustrations inspired by photos,
this one was of Greenland and this one of Iceland
in watercolor
Some more or less random sketches,
And an illustration of a church near my home,
that I wanted to paint in watercolor.
(What a pain turning the sketchbook...)
Uh, here we have lots of heads, some cats and Lalli,
a lot of them over here are very bad, but I like to do these kinds of pages,
where I fill the page with lots of sketches
and I don't care if they look bad because in the end
it's the accumulation of all the sketches which makes the page look interesting.
I did the same thing with Emil on this page.
Oh, this was a drawing I made following a comment and a SSSS page,
I can't even explain the what or the why...
this drawing exists, that's all.
Another illustration on this side
I was inspired by another Instagram photo
of a beautiful cat in an orange light that I loved.
Some Blásandi sketches, it had been a while,
so here they are.
And here I was testing out some new pens, I think
It doesn't show, but on this drawing,
I put some correction tape, because I didn't like how it looked
and I redrew his mouth over it.
In real life, it's very noticeable, and it looks very weird.
Emil as the human torch, idk
These were sketches I did while at a climbing spot,
I simply drew the people there.
There was a pretty remarkable moment
when someone, after having succeeded in climbing a pretty hard part, said
"I'M BEAUTIFUL", very loudly
so I drew that
And illustration of Emil and Lalli that I never posted because I don't like how it turned out.
I thought that, because Lalli is a cat, he must to cat stuff
Therefore, he'll do headbutts.
Some ponies. And like I said at the beginning,
I wrote that these were "guilty pleasure ponies".
And this by the way is my pony OC that I had before coming up with Logi.
And this one is almost like and animation, a picture sequence.
So here I really wanted to animate stuff, but I couldn't, so I drew this.
Here are some very rough character sketches
For a webcomic idea I had but never really finished,
but yeah I had a few character design ideas.
And this another watercolor painting
from when I went to Brittany.
Some rocks were poking out of the water, it was pretty.
More character sketches, I won't dwell on them in case I eventually make this webcomic,
as to not spoil too much.
Even more character sketches...
Some fanart of SSSS in watercolor
These were randow sketches I did while walking in the forest,
again, more random sketches.
You're starting to get the idea : random sketches
Some Moomins,
I wanted to draw the Moomins a bit,
and Tove Jansson, who is the creator of the Moomins.
And these are restaurant napkins glued to the page.
When I go the a restaurant, I always take a pen with me,
and I always draw on the napkins while waiting for my food.
I liked how they turned out, so I cut them and glued them,
maybe, they still smell of mussels, you never know.
An unfinished illustration of one the characters I started designing but actually never finished...
These are some AoT characters I think...
Yep, Armin... Levi (oh he's ugly here), and Erwin.
Small AU where Emil and Lalli are surfers,
I think I just wanted to draw them half naked with surfboards... that's it.
Uhh, baby Logi. Logi jumping like a fox. Logi being adorable, of course.
And some animation notes for four-legged animation,
I still have to animate a walk cycle with Logi like this,
and actual one, of course, not just sketches.
Hop, some character research,
an idea for an AoT fanart I never finished, I think.
Some animal sketches, of course
Lalli being a lynx and Emil being a poodle, I think,
I just had to draw them.
And this is a sort of exquisite corpse style comic
I did with Diane in highschool,
so I once again recommend you to check out her Instagram, its sydka.art,
she make absolutely adorable stuff, and she has a Dreki named Izu.
So we had fun with drawings and comics,
this is Logi drawn by Diane, and Izu drawn by me,
in Russian traditional clothes for Izu, and Icelandic clothes for Logi.
These are drawing I did in class, I was testing out some new pens I think.
More illustration from pictures of Iceland in watercolor.
Emil and Lalli on a boat,
I tried to give off a cold and foggy atmosphere,
with some colored pens.
And some lynx exercises, it had been a while.
And this drawing is not by me, it's by Diane
it's Izu saying that tonight, he wants to eat some Roquefort chicken
And this is one of the last pages I completed,
just random stuff,
I was lacking inspiration.
And this is the last part of my sketchbook,
in which I make thumbnails for illustrations or ideas I have,
so this is mosly a big mess of sketches,
but they help me plan out the illustrations I'll do later on.
I really like to do a little sketch on paper
to help me decide on which compostition I prefer before starting the illustration fro example.
And this a a Troll version of Logi. Not the meme of course, the Trolls from SSSS,
a sort of horror version of Logi... I really like this one.
And here we have the drawings of the SSSS characters as ponies,
that I actually did way earlier.
I drew them at the end of my sketchbook, but they are pretty old, actually.
I scanned them and colored them digitally.
And that's it, we're at the end! With a page full of random pen tests
and math exercises.
And then, that'it,
it's the end of this sketchbook tour,
I hope you liked it.
It's my first video in front of a camera... I mean behind the camera, but with my voice
So yeah, I don't know how to speak behind a camera,
tell me if you have advices or stuff I could improve.
Anyways, I really enjoyed showing you this sketchbook,
and I think I'll do more sketchbook tours for my next sketchbooks.
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