Beginners Guide to a Sketchbook Practice: 7 Day Daily Drawing Habit Challenge

Class Overview: 

Start a daily creative habit with a 7 day drawing challenge. This class is designed to help you begin a sustainable, long-lived daily creative habit to build your artist endurance for a career as a professional artist. You’ll learn specific tips for keeping up with a daily art practice and follow along with 7 daily prompts meant to get your creativity going. 

What You Will Learn: 

In this class you’ll learn a simple and sustainable way to approach a daily drawing practice, dedicating just 5-10 minutes a day. We'll cover:

• Setting you up for success with a daily drawing habit
• Materials and sketchbook tips and recommendations
• 7 days of creative exercises
• Ways to stay motivated and keep coming back
• 30 additional creative prompts to keep going

Why You Should Take This Class:

A consistent creative habit is essential for having a thriving career as a working artist. Building your creative endurance through a daily sketchbook practice will help you generate more ideas, learn how to show up even when creativity doesn’t strike, and create a body of work that is always improving and that you are proud of. 

I am a licensed artist with my art on fabric, wallpaper, crafting materials, gift items, stationery and wall art. I have been creating art daily (or nearly daily) since 2021 and have used my sketchbook practice to generate licensed artwork and surface pattern designs. This class will show you a peak behind the curtain of how I work and how I continue to come up with ideas and invest in my creativity day after day.  

Who This Class is For:

This class is very beginner friendly, and requires no computer software. It is intended for individuals looking to invest more time in a creative practice to build endurance for lifelong creativity. It is particularly suited for people who strive to develop careers as working artists and designers. The exercises all use analog materials and techniques, and can be a great introduction to developing a physical sketchbook practice.

Materials/Resources:

For this class you will need:

• A sketchbook
• Drawing of painting implements, including but not limited to:
  • Graphite pencils
  • Colored pencils
  • Gouache paints
  • Fine liner pens
  • Artist Markers
  • Brush Pens
  • Paint Sticks
• A phone with a timer, or other way to time yourself
• Scissors and paper (optional) - For more tips on working with paper cut outs

I've created a comprehensive list of my materials used in my sketchbook in this class and in my creative practice. 

Music used in videos in Santo Rico by Twin Musicom and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/