Your art is insane!!! Absolutely the best dog portraits I’ve ever seen! You should be so proud of your work!

Girl that messy sketchbook is perfect. Mine looks like someone went through it during a psychotic breakdown 😆

@dawntoussaint

5 ай бұрын

🥰 Thanks, I do like what's in it... I just have that kinda brain that likes things to be very organized, so its hard for me to appreciate them all together like that😅

@selenacordeiro1458

5 ай бұрын

@@dawntoussaint 🤣well, I hope you’re proud of your little mess anyway lol… Beautiful work! 💕

I have trouble starting new sketchbooks so I start on page 6 or seven and just pretend I've been using it for awhile, at some point when it doesn't 'feel new' anymore it's easy to go back and doodle around with the first pages. I also have trouble finishing them too. Haven't solved that one yet 😏🥴 I have 4-5 going at once: 1) 'KZread Art School': where I put my notes and practice all the wonderful things I learn from content creators like you, 2) '100 Things': where I draw 100 of the same kinds of things 3) 'Watercolor Practice': trees, leaves, flower petals, textures, landscapes, skies, ocean water beaches 4) 'Notes': on brushes, swatches, color mixing recipes, how to mix a neutral or black, value scales, anatomy proportions 5) Composition Thumbnails: 6) 'Swatches Charts': of all my media supplies, watercolors when mixed with each other, 7) 'Warm Ups': So I don't have to keep hunting for a piece of scrap paper or feel like I'm 'wasting' perfectly good pages in my sketchbook...... etc. etc. etc. .....

@dawntoussaint

5 ай бұрын

I love that, sounds like we have similar strategies! I bounce around the pages sometimes too ;D

I have multiple sketchbooks in various stages of completion. I choose them for size, paper type and subjects. Yet, I don't have trouble finishing A sketch book or starting A new one either. I started Zentangle in May of 2020 after a lifetime of thinking I could not draw anything. An inner artist has blossomed and my skills have developed to where I am now branching into realistic botanicals and insects. I seem to favor pen and ink so far. I'm 69 years young and telling everyone I know you are never too old to learn A new skill. This is the first of your videos, I've seen and your work is amazing! Like you I practice daily and keep amazing myself at every turn. I also recently overcame my fear of the gutter between sketchbook pages....although it still seems like I'm breaking some unwritten rule...great video and good luck as you continue your journey of discivery. The sky is the limit!

@dawntoussaint

5 ай бұрын

I love your story❤️ I stopped making art for years when I was starting my career, and it was so hard to get started again... but I finally feel like Im back in a place where I can really enjoy the process ;D

cant beat sketchbooks full of dog drawings 🥰

I use my Travelogue Handbook sketchbook for watercolor and it's ok. Love your work!❤

I think most of us ONLY keep an art journal rather than different books for specific reason. But I like the idea of it. I love all your work but would like to see more cats.

Love your work - thank you!

@dawntoussaint

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Look at that pound puppy on the counter in the background! Lol I had a couple of those……. Loved them! Just saying

@dawntoussaint

5 ай бұрын

My love for pound puppies never went away... 🥰

im so happy that i found your channel, i love your style and your personality bring so much joy to your videos

@dawntoussaint

5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!!

This is the first video of yours that I’ve seen. I love your variety of sketchbooks and your work is absolutely stunning!! I like the idea of sticking with one at a time but I seem to have a few on the go for different purposes as well (a tiny one to keep in my pocket just in case, one for holidays and my main one for everything else, oh and I did have another which was mostly for Inktober, but that’s full now). I love making my own sketchbooks! Have you made any before? (If not, I’ve got a tutorial on my channel which is clear step by step how to make a cloth covered, hardback, bound sketchbook.)

Great video! I've been sketchbooking for a couple of years now and started just working through one sketchbook at a time, doing anything and everything in each one. Recently I splurged some birthday gift cash on a bunch of different sketchbooks, all shapes and sized, toned paper etc. Now, like you I have a kind of purpose or style or intent or place for each one. Each one is a new and exciting project that could possibly take me forever to complete, but I don't really care about that. I feel so much more creative opportunity now that I have a range, but I still love my 'anything and everything' sketchbook as a go-to 🙂

@dawntoussaint

5 ай бұрын

That's amazing ;D

I’m terrible at dogs, they are a subject I want to get better at. I think your Pup-traits are just Paw-fect! Thank you for the inspiration ❤

@dawntoussaint

5 ай бұрын

TYSM! I never get tired of them💕

your work is unreal. i'd love to watch your drawing and painting processes.

@dawntoussaint

5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, and thanks for watching 😀

Wow this video went to the dogs fast. But dog-nabbit its a wooferful set of books ..inwas gonna post more dog puns but im drawing a blank lol

@dawntoussaint

5 ай бұрын

LOL, I def appreciate the effort🐶

Love your art! ❤ I have multiple sketchbooks too. It helps me study/practice to separate different subjects.

@dawntoussaint

5 ай бұрын

TY❤️That's awesome to hear Im not the only one ;D

The colour artwork is fantastic. Do you draw from _real life_ ? Or Do you use photographs And _other sources_ as a _reference_ to draw from? Thank you

Yep, I'm a multiple sketchbooks on the go at one time sort of a person 😂. And I have some waiting in the wings... 😃

@dawntoussaint

5 ай бұрын

YES!!! You and me both🤣

I have 10 or more sketchbooks in the same time hahahaha XD Can't have only one, impossible.

@dawntoussaint

5 ай бұрын

Wow 10+!!!

@beastwithcoffee

5 ай бұрын

@@dawntoussaint nondiagnosed adhd + loving testing new art tools = disaster but fun

how can that one sketchbook make you crinch? your "messy" sketchbook doesn't look messy at all to me. they all look so pretty! really nice drawings!

@dawntoussaint

5 ай бұрын

Awww thanks, but my brain wont let me appreciate the mess it until its done and I can look back with fresh eyes... Im just weird like that ;D

@plan4life

5 ай бұрын

She is just fishing for compliments. Seriously, sketchbooks should have “random“ sketches, not just all dogs. How would you ever grow as an artist?

I’m intrigued by your oil painting sketchbook. How do you deal with the slow drying time of oils? Do you have to keep your book open to that page until it dries before you can work on another page? I love painting in oils, and I’d like to find a way that is containable and manageable.

@dawntoussaint

5 ай бұрын

Yup, I just leave it open and put it up on a shelf out of the way... it usually takes 3-5 days for the paint to touch dry, then I add a sheet of parchment paper between the pages until it seem safe. I also date stamp the pages when I paint them so I can keep track❤️

@louisacahan831

5 ай бұрын

Oh thank-you so much! This enables me to try oil painting again! I had given it up because of the mess it makes in a large space, but in a sketchbook the mess is limited and manageable. I will try this. You just made my day!!!

I have multiple sketchbooks-most I have made but my husband buys me sketchbooks of all sorts and that is fun because they are generally paper and sizes I wouldn’t pick up so that forces me to go outside my comfort zone. Are your drawings in colored pencil?

@dawntoussaint

5 ай бұрын

I love that! Yes, I mostly use Prismacolor Col-Erase... but any inexpensive hard pencil works for me😊

What colors do you use as the underpaintings?

@dawntoussaint

5 ай бұрын

It depends, but most often a palette of burnt sienna, ultra marine blue, titanium white, raw umber, and yellow ochre

@maureencepiel959

5 ай бұрын

@@dawntoussaint So do you have a specific subject in mind, then decide which underpainting color to use? In other words, do the colors in your subject influence the underpainting color?