Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
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In today’s video, I’m going to go through four ways in which we might struggle in our sketches, and of course, I’ll offer some advice for how to overcome these struggles. This one might be a bit longer, but I believe that if you’re struggling to make sketching a stronger part of your illustration process, you’ll get a lot out of this. And stay to the end, because I’ll be giving a quick demo of how I illustrate using Procreate. This is kind of a mini tutorial, but hopefully it will help make my points seem less abstract.
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:35 Welcome
1:10 Sponsored by Astropad Studio astropad.com
2:34 What's so hard about sketching?
4:54 What is Sketching for Illustration?
6:24 My experience with sketches early on
8:15 Struggle 1: Lack of direction (Unclear brief)
11:16 Struggle 2: Don't have a style or technique
15:29 Struggle 3: Impatience (Just want to jump right into the final illustration)
20:03 Struggle 4: Not sure how sketching fits into your creative process
22:36 Demo: Sketching in Procreate
23:06 O-Mode Sketching
26:00 I-Mode Sketching
39:32 Outro
FIND ME ELSEWHERE
Teaching: skillshare.com/tomfroese
Patreon: patreon.com/tomfroese
Instagram: instagram.com/mrtomfroese
Web: tomfroese.com
🔗 Updated Astropad Link — mdsh.io/mrtomfroese 🙏 Take my Drawing Toward Illustration Class
Get 30 Days Free Skillshare Membership with this link: https://skl.sh/30viGwW
In today’s video, I’m going to go through four ways in which we might struggle in our sketches, and of course, I’ll offer some advice for how to overcome these struggles. This one might be a bit longer, but I believe that if you’re struggling to make sketching a stronger part of your illustration process, you’ll get a lot out of this. And stay to the end, because I’ll be giving a quick demo of how I illustrate using Procreate. This is kind of a mini tutorial, but hopefully it will help make my points seem less abstract.
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:35 Welcome
1:10 Sponsored by Astropad Studio astropad.com
2:34 What's so hard about sketching?
4:54 What is Sketching for Illustration?
6:24 My experience with sketches early on
8:15 Struggle 1: Lack of direction (Unclear brief)
11:16 Struggle 2: Don't have a style or technique
15:29 Struggle 3: Impatience (Just want to jump right into the final illustration)
20:03 Struggle 4: Not sure how sketching fits into your creative process
22:36 Demo: Sketching in Procreate
23:06 O-Mode Sketching
26:00 I-Mode Sketching
39:32 Outro
FIND ME ELSEWHERE
Teaching: skillshare.com/tomfroese
Patreon: patreon.com/tomfroese
Instagram: instagram.com/mrtomfroese
Web: tomfroese.com










