6 Sketchbook Tips for Art Students - theartproject

6 tips to help beginning and growing art students use their sketchbook more fearlessly. These are just a few things I do regularly to help me as an artist. Hopefully, it will help the art student too. This is one way to teach students to use their sketchbook and enjoy being crazy about it. I am always looking for sketchbook ideas. share your ideas in the comments and I might make a video out of them later.



Click on any of these links for the supplies I recommended. It also helps support me when you click on the link and purchase anything. thanks!

X-acto knives: http://bit.ly/theartprojectx-acto
Acrylic paint, Liquitex: http://bit.ly/liquitexacrylicpaint
Pigma Micron assortment: http://bit.ly/pigmamicronassortment
Sharpies colored: https://amzn.to/2GrbFBX
Speedball Pen Nibs: https://amzn.to/2qPWRXK
Speedball Pen Nib holder: https://amzn.to/2K58UbG
Noodlers Brown #41: https://amzn.to/2JOJgIn
Steadler pens: http://bit.ly/2z8y7ALstaedler


Other Places you can find me
https://www.facebook.com/chadbrown72
https://www.instagram.com/chadtheartist/
Email: chadtheartist72@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/chadtheartist
https://chadtheartist.blogspot.com/
https://twitter.com/chadtheartist
https://theartproject.deviantart.com/
http://chadtheartist.tumblr.com/
https://www.gulfportschools.org/Domai...

Customized Sketchbook Cover - Resin Filled - theartroject

I always make the cover of my sketchbook my own. I am not usually this involved in it. recently I have started experimenting with resin. When I started getting close to the end of my last sketchbook I started thinking about how I could manipulate the cover of my new sketchbook with resin. Here is the result. I saw a lot of resin art online and thought I'd give it a try. some of the stuff I saw were wood and resin or concrete and resin, resin tables, resin casting and resin jewelry. This is a lot simpler than all that.

Words in Complementary Colors - theartproject - arteascuola.com

A video I made for http://arteascuola.com/ A great little exercise for all ages. use your name, use your momma's name. watch the video and try it with any kind of paint!

Q-tip Painting 2 - My Momma - theartproject

I did a strange portrait of my momma. I had the extra sheet of paper prepared with blacck and I loved the q-tip technique, kinda, so I went for it.

Sketchbook Pocket - theartproject - chadtheartist

I put a pocket in my sketchbook nearly everytime I get a new one. watch here to see how I do it! please go to my youtube channel and subscribe. give it a thumbs up if you enjoy it. and share on your art education blog.

Prismacolor Sticks Portrait Drawing on an on X-RAY Envelope

A couple of years ago I went to the chiropractor. I had some standard procedure x-rays done and on a whim, I asked for copies. I saved them all these years and today I drew a portrait using prismacolor sticks, of a student of mine named Keanu on the manilla envelope the X-rays came in. I decide the blue wasn't dark enough in some spots so I mixed in black prisma stick. Made a video and here it is.


You can get Prismacolor sticks 48 counts by clicking here: http://bit.ly/prismacolorsticks

chadtheartist and theartproject is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

Portrait drawing with a fork!

I did an ink drawing with a fork. it was fun. I have been drawing with kids in class for a while. They need to see me working. they see how the artist works. I teach an AP Studio Art Drawing class. We discuss things like mark-making. Mark making is pretty important when it comes to art. your marks are as unique as your fingerprints. every artist has their way of laying down marks and no matter how much you learn from another teacher your marks will always be uniquely yours. So learn everything you can from other artists, but also pursue the art of unique mark-making. With that being said this drawing was fun fun fun. I was in class. we were doing a lesson on Jim Dine and I was explaining superfluous marks. and the energy that comes from them. I was discussing how marks need to be confident and intentional, but lose and spontaneous. A plastic fork was in my desk drawer and it became the new object of my affection. I put up some drawing paper, got out a reference photo I had taken of one of my students a few days earlier, drew his contours and then filled in the shadows with a plastic fork or a "super cross-hatcher" however you want to look at it. Here's the video.

If you want to purchase some speedball ink click here:

Speedball Black Ink: https://goo.gl/Pr624R

Speedball Pen Nibs: https://amzn.to/2qPWRXK

Speedball Pen Nib Holder: https://amzn.to/2K58UbG
chadtheartist and theartproject is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

Other Places you can find me

Email: chadtheartist72@gmail.com

https://www.facebook.com/chadtheartist

https://chadtheartist.blogspot.com/

https://www.instagram.com/chadtheartist/

https://twitter.com/chadtheartist

https://theartproject.deviantart.com/

http://chadtheartist.tumblr.com/

https://www.gulfportschools.org/Domain/780