Sketching Videos

Come take a peek inside my sketchbook! It’s full of scribbles, smudges, leaves, flowers… and a few surprises. In this week’s YouTube video, I’m flipping through one of my recent nature-inspired ske...

Starting a nature sketching practice doesn’t require a room full of supplies. This week’s YouTube video shares my top 5 tools for beginners - including the exact sketchbook, pencil, and pens I alwa...

Sketching outside changed how I see the world… and how I see myself. In my latest YouTube video, I share why drawing in nature can clear your mind, how it frees your creativity, and the one mindset...

In my latest YouTube video, I’m sharing how mindful sketching became a powerful daily practice in my own life - one that’s helped me feel calmer, more creative, and more me. It’s not about being go...

In this video I wanted to share some advice on making sketching relaxing rather than stressful.  I get a lot of comments from people stressed out about ‘sketching wrong’ or ‘they can’t do it’ or ‘t...

In this video I wanted to give you a tour of one of my smaller sketchbooks. These small moleskin pocket sketchbooks are a favourite of mine and I always have one on the go at any one time. I use th...

In this video I wanted to talk to you about pencils. Pencil is one of my absolute favourite materials for sketching with. Easy to use, convenient, affordable and so versatile. If I were to choose j...

In this video I wanted to give you some ideas of what I am currently sketching this Spring and some ways I generate ideas for never-ending sketchbook inspiration. Nature truly brings us some wonder...

So... exactly how many sketchbooks do I actually own? Let's take a look in this fun YouTube video that also shows you a tour of my studio and where I keep everything.

In this video I wanted to show you around my home art studio and show you 5 of my favourite ways to organise my art supplies. Plus hang on to the end of the video and I'll share with you exactly WH...

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 the latest tour around one of my daily sketchbooks. This shows every page of the last full daily sketchbook that I completed at the end of 2024. Enjoy!

In this video I wanted to share something with you that I do a couple of times per year... It is a trick of technique that I come back to regularly as a way to boost my creativity and inspire me fo...

One of the things I get asked regularly is how do you find the time to sketch? I also hear comments like – I wish I had all the time to sketch like you. So with all this in mind I want to share som...

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 ...

Today I am going to talk about 6 ways that you can continue to sketch throughout 2025. Sketching is such a wonderful activity for boosting creativity, relaxing and claiming back that well-deserved ...

Pencil is one of my all time favourite materials for using on paper. It is simple, affordable and convenient to use and carry about with you. In this video I would like to chat to you about some su...

One of the hardest things with sketching regularly and enjoying drawing and all things sketchbooks is simply starting. Opening up those first few blank pages can be intimidating and it can feel lik...

One of the main reasons that I pick up a sketchbook and draw on a regular basis is to relax. So today I wanted to share with you 4 easy sketchbook ideas to help you to relax. Each one of them is ea...

Every January for the last two years I have completed a daily continuous line drawing for 30 days in a row. From this simple daily sketching starting point I have learned so much about drawing, obs...

In this video I would like to show you 5 of my favourite things to doodle. Those familiar things that I return to time and time again when I’m in a café, on a Zoom call, listening to a podcast or e...

Do you want to find more time for your sketchbook, draw in a variety of creative ways and well, fall in love with sketching again? In this video I will share with you 4 of my top tips for raising y...

In this video I wanted to show you 4 different ways that I use these funky water-soluble wax crayons. These are the Cara D’ache Neocolor II wax pastels that I added into my stash of art materials a...

Did you know that there are no sketchbook police coming to get you? Those scary figures of authority that will creep up behind you whilst you are drawing to tell you – er – “excuse me your sketchi...

In this video I show you how to make the cutest little sketchbook in the world! This is a super-tiny concertina sketchbook handmade by yours truly. It’s perfect for small drawings, tiny paintings o...

In this video I will show you a quick way to draw a cactus or plant in your sketchbook using a simple but effective sketching technique. And this will take you just 5 minutes...

Have you always wanted to try fountain pen for your sketching but weren’t sure which one to get? Well, in this video I am going to show you my 5 favourite fountain pens for sketching that I use on...

If you only have 5 minutes to sketch you can still get loads of benefits from opening up your sketchbook and putting pencil to paper. In this video I’m going to share 5 of my favourite sketching e...

Starting a new sketchbook practice can seem super-intimidating but it can also be so rewarding. In this video I will explain the 4 reasons why you need to start a sketching practice today.

In this video I show you inside the pages of my very first 30-Day Sketchbook Challenge Sketchbook. All these sketches were completed between 01-30 Jan 2018.

Sketchbook warm-ups are designed to be quick exercises to get you in the zone when you open your sketchbooks for the first time on a particular day. This exercise involves doodling pasta shapes usi...

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,...

In this video I show you inside the pages of my second 30-Day Sketchbook Challenge Sketchbook. All these sketches were completed between 01-30 Jan 2019.

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...