Sketching Videos

Welcome to this sketching tutorial - something a little different as I take part in a week-long celebration of sketching flowers with Search Press. As one of their authors I was asked to sketch a f...

Welcome to this episode of Sketchbook Stories, where I show you inside the pages of some of my sketchbooks - the good, the bad and the messy. Over the past few months I have been looking to simple ...

Welcome to episode 19 of Sketchbook Stories, with me, Susan Yeates. In this episode I am showing my sketchbook pages that feature my blue nude collages inspired by Matisse. Within this episode you ...

Welcome to episode 18 of Sketchbook Stories. In this episode I am showing my blue ink cactus art and playing around with some of my favourite paintbrushes, admiring the many amazing and different p...

Welcome to episode 17 of Sketchbook Stories. In this episode I am playing with paint pens, doodling freely and explaining how I keep these easy art materials around to sketch whenever I wish.

Welcome to episode 16 of Sketchbook Stories. In this episode I am displaying my little doodle forest sketches. Follow me as I sketch a quick example of the framed forests too!

Welcome to episode 15 of Sketchbook Stories, with me, Susan Yeates. In this episode I am showing my shadow sketchbook art, along with a quick demonstration so you can have a go at creating with me!

In this episode I am opening up the pages of a recent pith sketchbook where I have been sketching the landscape using a quick tonal study. As well as showing the page I will show you how to create ...

This sketchbook page shows the wonderful technique of blind contour drawing and how we can use this to sketch faces. So fun for loosening up and building confidence in pencil. Oh and it's quick too!

This A4 sketchbook page shows a colourful landscape sketch done in water-soluble crayons, inspired by an oil painting by Paul Cezanne. This video details the exact processes and materials used as w...

Welcome to episode 11 of Sketchbook Stories, with me, Susan Yeates. This sketchbook page shows a collection of loose pencil sketches done in my daily sketchbook whilst on the Isle of Wight. As well...

Welcome to episode 10 of Sketchbook Stories. This sketchbook page shows a landscape sketch done in pencil and watercolour whilst travelling in Spain in a small A6 portable sketchbook. As well as e...

Welcome to episode nine of Sketchbook Stories. Today I am going to show you a sketchbook from 2017 that shows my pencil sketches of fishes. These sketches were the initial designs for my fish lino...

Welcome to episode eight of Sketchbook Stories. This sketchbook page shows a landscape sketch done in pastel pencils whilst on a trip to Gran Canaria. As well as explaining where this was created,...

Welcome to episode seven of Sketchbook Stories. Today I am going to show you a collection of pages from over 20 years ago when I was a student at art college. We went on a trip to Barcelona and vis...

Welcome to episode six of Sketchbook Stories. Today I am going to show you a page from a recent sketchbook that has a number of pencil sketches on it. These were created at different times and both...

May 4th be with you! Now I will let you into a little secret - I am a huge fan of Star Wars. And in this sketchbook I had a play with sketching in pencil some of the iconic helmet shapes (and BB8...

Welcome to episode four of Sketchbook Stories. In this series I will open up the pages of my personal sketchbooks and tell you the stories behind the sketches. I will also show you how the sketche...

Welcome to episode three of Sketchbook Stories. Today we are looking at a few pages of mushroom sketches completed a while ago in fine-liner pen and Inktense pencils. This video includes a demonstr...

A huge welcome the second episode of a NEW video series on YouTube called Sketchbook Stories. In this series I am going to open up the pages of my own sketchbooks to show you what’s inside – the go...

A huge welcome the first episode of a NEW video series on YouTube called Sketchbook Stories. In this series I am going to open up the pages of my own sketchbooks to show you what’s inside – the go...