Sketchbook as a Laboratory for Play with April Howlett

April, can you give everybody a little background about your art/illustration/design career and YouTube Channel?

How often do you use your sketchbook? Are you solely analog on sketching? Do you ever start sketching on the iPad or in Photoshop?

You have an awesome YouTube channel (monkeymintaka). What made you want to start the channel? You sketch live, you record videos of you on location, art hauls, etc… Do you have a favorite type of video you like to make?

Are you drawing more or less since you created the channel?

How often in the past few years have you used your sketchbook to experiment with a new style or try something new?

How does doing challenges like the bird challenge and others help you experiment?

Do you have different sketchbooks at one time? How do you use the different ones and why have multiple?

If you were going to a meeting or doctor’s appointment would you carry your sketchbook? How would you use it in those situations? (Do you carry multiple with you at one time?)

You often take your sketchbooks out and sketch on location. How often per week/month do you go outside or out of your home to sketch?

What are you experiementing with in your sketchbooks? What are you practicing?

When do you take it out of the sketchbook? What does your process of creating a final piece look like or is the final straight from the sketchbook?

How do you decide what gets made into prints, stickers, or other products?

Do you work in scenes or complete compositions inside your sketchbooks?

How often do you return to your old sketchbooks for inspiration or ideas?

How do you deal with making bad art? Is your internal voice nice or mean?

What has been the biggest epiphany that came as a result of having a regular sketchbook practice?

What is next?