SKETCHBOOK TOUR of ALL my Sketchbooks! (4th-12th grade)

So I've divided my sketchbooks into four different kind of eras. This one is when I first started drawing in like elementary slash middle school. This one is also kind of from that era but later. This is from when I first started drawing again and this is where we are now. Just a little bit of background. I'm Karina. I've been drawing a lot um my whole life because my mom is an artist. She does a lot of mixed media stuff so she kind of raised me to make art but I started officially kind of like I started drawing in elementary school and middle school. It started at the scholastic book fair actually where I found a manga how to draw book and I just started copying from it. This is the first sketchbook that I ever really kept. You know, draft more sketchbook. I got it for my birthday or something. I just copied everything. Obviously it wasn't perfect. I wanted to be better so I kept going. I thought this one was so good. Look at my hands. Oh dear. This is the first one I tried to draw without using a reference and this one too. This is how I wanted my hair to look and I actually did get it cut like that in eighth grade and it was so terrifying but then I shaved it all off so. This was my attempt at realism. Wake me up when it's all over. That was the era we were in. I think the problem with starting out drawing is that you try to make lines that aren't really there like the teeth lines. Oh this was me. I was really proud of this one too. I copied it from a picture and I was like wow photo realism. Oh so this must have been in fourth grade before we got my dog. So yeah this is all from fourth grade and I copied a picture of a Jack Russell terrier online because that's what we thought we were gonna get. We're like skipping around a lot because that was just in fourth grade and now we're in sixth grade because I started watching Sword Art Online in sixth grade and Hetalia and is this from The I don't remember. This was also from that show. I don't remember what it was. I think that's it. Second one. A little later. Still drawing anime stuff. This time it's copied from Pinterest so it has a little more flavor. Where are her eyes? I started making like superhero OCs. I was really proud of this style. I was using like a pilot pen and colored pencils. I actually had a friend named Rainy and I made this person after Rainy so. Okay this is not from the same era but I just stuck it in here. I think this was in like sixth or seventh grade. I drew it at my grandparents house. I was really proud of these. I really liked this one. I spent so much time on it. I think they were lesbians. This is so cute. Wow and I made like logos for them. I really just gave up on them like after the sketchbook was done I was just. That's it. Neko girl. Oh my god. Oh sword art online. I think this is the last page. Yep. I never finished my sketchbooks. Peep the undertale stuff. I never finished undertale. All my friends did. I love this one. This is so cute. I copied a lot of these but I think it made me get better in the end. This one was cute. I liked that. I was really proud of that one. Ew. Ew. I don't think I did these with references. I was actually pretty proud of myself. I didn't use a reference for that. I don't know about this one. Look at the shadows. The shading. Oh my god. I did it. This was a character I made. I drew her for a while. I drew this one at hibachi. I remember that. And here's where I got my copic markers. I didn't use a reference for this one either and I was so proud of it. I keep saying that but I really was. I drew a lot more full bodies than I do now. Noodle. 2d. Another 2d. This lady again. Noodle. Very repetitive. I wish I could keep going in this route so I could make really cool art that was that looks like this but was better. What the hell. Oh she snipped her bangs off because her bangs covered her hair. I'll be going. And then she like runs away with the scissors. This was so edgy but I really liked that one and that. I don't know. You didn't just expose my eyes. You opened them too. I want to start a new project right away. And she was going to be like a robot like maker. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know about any of this stuff. And this was a lady that I made too. Look at the fit. It's kind of popping. Some more of that. I don't know. This was gonna be me and my friends and we were gonna make a band but that never happened so I never finished the drawing. This was towards the end. This was the part that I was actually stuck on in Undertale and I just could not complete the game because of Muffet. I was so bad at it. Okay here's the end. Yeah. This is the last one from that era by the way. I forgot her name. That's why I keep saying Undershell stuff and I even dressed up as her for my first convention and I just don't remember. I feel so bad. I copied this one from one of my favorite artists and now I don't even remember her name but I know her cat's name is Dirtbite and her name is Madeline I think. Star versus the forces of evil. That's what she worked on. I really liked this style with like the watery looking thing. I don't know. I copied this from her Instagram too. Okay. Melanie Martinez. Melanie Martinez. Selena Gomez. Oh my god. I loved Parasite. I re-watched it recently. It was so good. I was also watching Tokyo Cool as you can see. I loved Tsukiyama. This was a person I saw at the beach and I wanted to make a character out of them. My art style was not looking very good. Ladies. Lady. I really liked this one. This one took a lot longer but I really liked this one. Which lady? This was from a Young with Giant music video. Yeah this was my- my gay- my gay phase. I don't have a sexuality now. I'm not labeling myself now but there was this one point in middle school where I was like yes I'm gay that is a fact and turns out I wasn't because I'm dating a man right now. Oh that is questionable. I stopped trying. I saw this online and I wanted to copy it. Hey what- what's that? It looks like a w or m but it's also like worm. That is the end of like fourth grade to sixth grade I believe. This next era- oh there's a hair. This next era is kind of small. There's hair everywhere. Oh my god. All right let's start with this one. There was a lot of Steven Universe happening and then I made some characters inspired by Steven Universe. Yeah they were gonna be gay too. Steven Universe. Steven Universe. Oh this is bad. This is where I started to get really cringey like in- in real life as a person. This is how I wanted my hair to get cut. I genuinely wanted that. Aw that's cute. I forgot her name. Steven Universe lady. My memory's so bad if you can't tell. Oh this is another like character that I made. He was called Nip Slip. You must now suffer from the wrath of Nip Slip. That was what I looked like at the time. That was genuinely- I had those socks. That's how I dressed and that's what my hair looked like. It was terrifying. This is what I look like now just for reference. Over the garden wall stuff. That's my ex. Yeah that- that's us. That was me and my ex. Oh my sister drew that. That's also my ex. I drew these although we were dating. Not after we broke up. I wasn't like a weird stalker. This lady was a character of mine for a while too. I really liked her. Her space hair. That's literally what my hair looked like at this time. That is a self-portrait. It is- oh my god. The 21 Pilots earrings. My hair was red. Shaved on the side. Terrible. I started making thumbnail sketches so. Wow go me. Is this the end? That's the end of this one. Wow. Here's our next one. We're getting slightly better. Um Gaelic Milk. This paper is really good for watercolor if anyone wants to use watercolor or gouache or something. Like there's no warping so that's kind of cool. Some ladies. I drew these all at camp. She has her boobs out. I actually started drawing boobs better because I- I was older. This girl I went to school with and I don't think she knew me because she was a senior and I was like an eighth grader. This is one of my friends, Hannah. That's what I looked like. I had shaved off my hair by this- by this time and yeah. It was growing back and I didn't look half bad. These are kind of cool. I don't know the right word. I don't know what this is. I don't know what these are either. My god. Kyle! I drew this guy a lot in all my homework. I think that was Willow Smith. It does not look like her. Power to creator. Um this is M.I.A. M.I.A. Frog Hampton thingy that I never finished. Crazy frog. Okay this is- this is the last page actually. XXXTentacion. We ended on December 30th of 2017. Frick. Oh god. You know when it says frick it's gonna be kind of cringe. I love small sketchbooks because they're so portable. I think this overlaps. Like it started with my hair not being shaved off and then it ended with it being shaved off so yeah. I didn't like go from one sketchbook consecutively to the next. I started them sporadically and ended them like- I didn't end them because I don't end my sketchbooks. Banks family portrait. This was a lady that was reading at the park and I really liked how I liked her vibe. I drew that one. I'm really proud of that one. I used to love graphic novels and I would copy the little pictures all the time. Oh my god. I don't remember any of this. See now I'm starting to draw boobs right. I don't know. Boobs is a big development in my art. Oh that was from the paper girls. I believe so. That was a Weezer song. I don't know if it was a cover of anything but I know it from Weezer. Oh boobs. Crystal germs. I love amethyst. These are more copies from the paper girls. This one was cool. I drew all these at my grandparents house. This was a lady I saw at the airport. She was sitting across from us. She was so pretty. This was from a magazine. This was also from a magazine. That's what I looked like at this point. This is my friend Viva. This was a cafe me and my mom went to in Marshall, North Carolina. This is princess Nokia. Princess Nokia. Ugly worldwide. That's my current boyfriend and the rest of this is blank. But good way to end it. Next era. Why is there hair everywhere? Oh my god. So just for some background, I stopped drawing from like eighth grade, ninth grade, to the end of 10th grade. In 10th grade I lost two of my closest friends and we're cool now. We're buddies now. But um yeah I was kind of lonely and I started drawing again just because I didn't have anything else to do. So that's where I started this one. This is me and my boyfriend at the High Museum. March 2019. And I started drawing like I don't even know man. I tried drawing like Hannah but I added my own twist and it was shittier. So this is from that album cover um City Morgue. I started trying to use more photo reference because I had this like semi-realistic style. This was like a combination of everyone's drawings. My band was trying to come up with the logo. This is the bee page. Okay we got like all my different friends to draw their bees. This one's mine. That's from photo reference. These are just from my head. Photo reference. If you follow her. Oh it was like chowder but like the w is like two v's. I think that's what it is. Another photo reference obviously. Here is our logo. The original buffalo. Hallelujah. Some thumbnail sketches. Another photo reference. This was from a photography account and I follow it on my art instagram but I feel so bad for not remembering. This was my face on an instagram filter and I thought it was really cool. I really like this one. She's so pretty. I want to look like her. This was an attempt at gouache painting and I sucked at it. This is my friend Viva. That was a plan for a painting in my art class. These were both of me at the time. My hair had grown out a lot since I last drew myself. FK twigs. A staple for any sketchbook. Alright that's the end of this one because I ripped out a lot of the last pages to use for other stuff. So this is like in junior year. I had this little sketchbook. I wanted to fill it up with as much stuff as I could because I saw Matthew Sorge's video and I was like wow I need to make a thick sketchbook which I did. There's just a few there's like 10 pages left and I just don't have the motivation to finish it so we're keeping it like this. October 2019 to there's no finish date. By the way I got this sketchbook from walmart and I love it. This was for ring. Mindless. This was a painting of wise blood. I don't know what this is. I only labeled some of the prompts so I don't know what some of these are. That was husky but I drew my boyfriend because his hair looked like a corn husk so that was how it was related. What was this for? I don't remember. This is a girl that I used to go to school with. She went to the art school and I saw this picture on her spam account. I was like I want to draw it. This is my friend Bailey. Part of her face came off. These are some pictures of me. More inktober stuff. This is gouache. This is not ink. That was just a cool gouache painting I did in like 10 minutes. I was like wow gouache. This was at the park. I was just sitting on the ground with my friends and I drew the slings. I really like this one. That was a reference from pinterest. That's a picture of my shoe. This is danger ink. Here's an art mutual. Bjork Bjork. Here's Alyssa. I feel like a lot of y'all have already seen this stuff. Norweenie dogs. That's like the 2019 version of walkie slush. I like this spread. These two also. There's me. I like this one too. It's very blue. Some pen stuff. Oil paint pen. I also got some of those mild liner markers from target. So this was made with those and some colored pencils. I really like this one actually. It's a cat and the lizard. Some more ink stuff. This is kind of some tattoo-esque stuff. Here's a collage. These were some people in my APUSH class. Another collage. I like this one. This is cute. I mean not to romanticize drug use but it's cute. I made a tiktok of drawing this one and it got restricted and I don't know why. I'm still so confused about that. I went to school with this girl. I don't- I don't remember drawing this. These were some eyes, ears, and noses in my psych class. Oh and these were some mugs in my second period that I saw. Jelly. This is a photo that blisshound took and edited and I decided to draw it because I was like wow. This is a self-portrait and this is my dog. I never finished drawing it and this is where it stops. This is my AP art sketchbook. So this is basically for junior year and part of senior year because I'm still using it for AP art. This is like an about me page because that's what we had to do for the intro. This is some summer work. You can pause if you want to but I'm not going to go into it that much. Some of my ideas influenced by them. Chiaroscuro. Portrait stuff. That's a replica of a Kehinde Wiley piece and that's a self-portrait in the mirror. This is some stuff for the project that I did as a second project idea. I don't know, some stuff. Project three, project four, project five, I think? I don't remember. I don't know. And some artists. I think that's where this one ended. Okay this is 2020's introduction page which it's not that much stuff. It's just friends, me, my body, I don't know. My boyfriend. Stuff I like. I don't know. This is a digital recreation I did of Frida Kahlo piece. This is artist research. Oh no. No. Okay that's an oil painting I did replicating her work. I emailed her. I asked if it was okay because this is quite large and yeah. This was my Chiaroscuro thing from this year and it's not as good. I don't know. Portrait stuff. I chose Alex Garant. I don't know if I'm saying that right. I'm so sorry. Yeah that's the last page in this one. Probably forever. Some of this stuff is also from junior year. I don't know why I didn't include it with that stuff but it's just stuff that's still relevant to me and some stuff I kind of use so yeah. I lumped it all into this category. Let's see, which one do I want to do first? Let's start with the shitbook. I think Mewtripled made a video saying that she has a shitbook and it helps her a lot because it's something that you're not making to post. It's something that you're making for yourself and to develop certain ideas. I got it from Walmart too. It was like four bucks so that helps with the process as well. This was for- I was planning a piece in junior year actually. This was still back in junior year for AP Art and I followed someone who was like if you draw a certain thing multiple times it gets the proportions into your head and then it's easier to like draw it when you have to do the final version so that actually did help me. I whipped this up so quickly after. I tried to do a page every day so. Here's some more of that repetitive stuff for another project. Jar. I like that. Scorpion. Here's some colorful stuff. These were with oil paint pens which I highly recommend like so much. Oh my god. I did this while I was babysitting. I was trying to show a kid what I did as a child to draw. Also I drew her turtle and cowboy boots stuff. This is from Pinterest. This is also from Pinterest. This was after I had a migraine and I was just like still recovering from the meds and the headache and it was just bleh. I feel like I'm Gucci Man in 2006. Oh we got a flower in here. Throwing it in the trash. I drew this when I was with my friend and we sat by the in her backyard so yeah that was a vibe. This is my friend Sean. We drew each other so yeah. He also he drew this. I did not draw that. This is my porch. There's some plans for an album cover that I did. Here's some figure drawings. Here's a commission that I tried to start but I don't like that guy and I just couldn't stand to finish drawing him so yeah. But here's my front yard and shadow planet. I don't know what this is but I really like the colors. I actually really like how it turned out. I believe that's where this one stops. This also began in junior year. We had someone visit from what's the school called? College for Creative Studies. I filled this entire book with oil paint pen drawings. I would draw in this while babysitting because it was so portable and I would just after the kids went to sleep I would just draw away in this sketchbook. The texture on these is so like nice and shiny and I love it. Damn these are really cool. Oh my god I need to start using these again. Okay twigs. And this was when I first started using TikTok so I posted- oh yep this is where it ends. Um this is the one that I- I use this sketchbook for very specific things. This person goes to my school. This person does not go to my school but I know them. Uh this is um she's the singer in Beach House. I forgot her name though. I feel so bad. Tower the Creator, Charles Gambino. I offer Pinterest and um Toyin Salau. I don't know if I'm saying that right but yeah. Andy Amour. No name. I love this one. I spent so much time on it. I actually had just gotten my pencil sharpener. This one I got it when I was with my family in Michigan seeing my grandparents over the summer so we went to Michael's to get some stuff that we had forgot to bring and I got a new pencil sharpener and it made my pencil so sharp so it made my drawings very smooth. That's it for this one because I only use it for very specific things. Same with this one. It's colored pencil paper so and I've also torn a lot of these out. This is one I follow on Instagram. I did the background with acrylic so it got kind of warped. This was the first colored pencil piece I did that actually got me back into using colored pencil so that's kind of cool. Um her username is huge like gtg like gotta go um I don't know her name but I know her face and I also did my Anderson Paak drawing in here but it is on my wall in a frame so yeah that's where that one went and I got a bunch of cool stickers to put on here but I guess I put them on the wrong sketchbook because I really just don't use this one. I actually also use this one for specific things too. I don't know what this is. Here's some more FKA twigs. I don't know what this is. I think that's Zendaya but it really just doesn't look like her and here's Marlon and that's it for this one. It's really just stuff that I use to rip out. This is like my main- my main hoe. So I started this one in February of 2020 and it's ongoing. This is the first spread. Uh the TikTok for this one went viral. It got like 200,000 views or something so that's kind of cool. McRyde. I keep saying that it's MCRyde but my brain loves to say McRyde. I kind of use this sketchbook to just go a little crazy. Live a little looser. FKA twigs again. Oh my god. Here's my hands. I drew this in psych class. Um I don't know. There's a lot of collages in here. This is my Apogee teacher, Mr. Henry. Orange stuff, yellow stuff, and blue stuff. I don't know. Two TikTokers. Self-portrait. Here's a red page, orange page. I did like a rainbow page thing so yellow, green, blue, purple. And this was the- this was- oh that was very slurred speech. Um this was the 100 heads challenge and I set some goals but I literally got 10 heads in because I was like wait I'm doing this wrong so I'm gonna redo it one day. And this was just stuff from 2016 that was on my wall and I took it down. This was also some stuff I glued in here too. Some- I actually painted these on cards. This one was for an art trade and I never got it to the person. I started using Tombow markers again and kind of getting back to my old ways so that's what that is. This is a song challenge that I did. I made a video about this but I'm just gonna flip through it real quick. It was 31 days and I got to a point where I was just barely keeping up especially since I was like out of town and I don't know there was a lot of stuff going on. All right I believe this is where it ended. Nope. Okay keep going. Almost there. All right this is the last one. And I don't even remember some of this stuff to be honest and it was so recent too that's so sad. Some ink stuff. This was for this year's Inktober but I didn't do Inktober. I did Magtober and Badtober and like combined some of the prompts. So this one was fire and then I combined the Magtober and Badtober and self-portrait who you really are and then combined it with fire so that's what that one was. And then I digitally colored it and posted it. Screen cap from Juno, self-portrait, and my room. I really like this page. I like it a lot. This was for Inktober and then some random stuff. Me and my boyfriend went to the High Museum for our two-year anniversary and we drew some stuff so that's what that is. Here's my boyfriend. I took a picture of him and drew him. I did this while I was at the lake and I drew some ink stuff. This is from the last video. I painted with a boba straw. You can see the process in that video if you want. And this is from last night actually. This was a photo of me that I found while I was cleaning out all my stuff and then I was like I'm gonna cut it out. It's gonna be like a positive space and a negative space. Oh my god it's so artsy. And this is where we're at right now. This is a self-portrait I did in a mirror last night and um sticker. Cool beans. Oh yeah here's the stickers on the back. If you have any questions you can like let me know in the comments or whatever. I will answer as much as I can. But yeah I hope you enjoyed seeing my art develop throughout the years. I'm thinking of making a video about all my art supplies and like rating them and also a video about going through all my actual art pieces that I have at home. So let me know which one you want to see out of those two because those are the ideas I have right now. I'll see y'all on the flip side. Have a good day, night, whatever time it is. And I love you. I love you so much. All right bye-bye.