I’m a 40 year old beginner artist and I can't finish a sketchbook to save my life! This video is every failed attempt at starting since 2021. I chat about the reasons I quit, attempts at draw a box, cartoons, watercolour, and how horrendous art and a well timed qoute finally changed my mind set. It’s not the polished perfect sketchbook tours you usually see. It’s a cycle of getting excited, buying shiny new supplies (because this time it WILL be different), then feeling intimidated, and eventually abandoning the sketchbook to do it all over again. Perfectionism, burnout, boredom, I've got all the excuses but it's time to just shut up and crack on with it tbh.

🎨 Update 9th Oct: I FINISHED THE NEW SKETCHBOOK! I'm filming the tour this week, subscribe to see it!

🖌️ Watch me fill 12 pages with 12 different mediums: https://youtu.be/LS3FnYKER1M

Time Stamps

00:00 It begins

00:30 Sketchbook 1 – Motivation Drop

01:08 Joining an Art Studio at 40

01:32 Sketchbook 2 – Perfectionism Trap

03:31 Sketchbook 3 – Depression and Creativity

04:14 Sketchbook 4 – Too Hard

05:39 Sketchbook 5 – Scruffy Learning Phase

09:34 Sketchbook 6 – New Sketchbook Syndrome

14:28 Sketchbook 7 – Boredom

16:10 Reflecting on Perfectionism, Boredom

16:34 Introducing the NEW sketchbook

16:57 New sketchbook tour so far

17:38 Doubt creeps in

18:05 The BAD art

18:18 The turning point!

18:52 A change of attitude

20:31 No longer afraid to try

22:39 Hopes for the future