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Inspiration
June 21, 2018
Listen To This: Kill the Genius - an Artists Network Podcast
Do you fear that your art will never be the work of a genius? Is this pressure keeping you from drawing at all? Danny Gregory guest stars on the Artists Network podcast about the archetype of “The Genius”. In this episode, Courtney Jordan, Samantha Sanders and Danny discuss where this archetype comes from and how it affects us when we are simply …
Read more »June 18, 2018
Watch This: Why people believe they can’t draw
Tale as old as time: you loved to make art as a kid and then, somehow the idea creeps in that you can’t draw. Most of us absorbed this can draw/can’t draw, either/or belief from parents, teachers, peers. Most of us hopped into the mental “can’t draw” box and never came out! In Graham Shaw’s TED Talk, Why People Believe They Can’t Draw, and How to …
Read more »May 28, 2018
A Drawing A Day June 2018 Drawing Word Prompt List
Summer is here! Here are your June prompts for A Drawing A Day! We’re approaching the halfway point of the year and it’s easy to lose energy and focus and put off drawing today. Before you know it you’ve put off drawing for a week. Our drawing prompts are here to inject energy into your daily practice and it’s that daily practice that’s going to …
Read more »May 26, 2018
Inspiration: Quitting isn’t losing
I was just two weeks into the 100-day project (#the100dayproject), when I gave myself permission to quit. I like to be challenged and set goals for myself and I thought I’d love being committed to one theme for a hundred days in a row. I was envisioning the outcome of having gained insights and skills and a big fat sketchbook full of drawings, …
Read more »May 17, 2018
Inspiration: You are not alone
You need to go way out to a cabin in the woods to write a great novel. You must move up to a garret on the top of floor of a tenement to paint masterpieces. Do not disturb. Genius at work. The myth of the solitary artist, toiling alone, far from the madding crowd. We’ve all heard it. And yet I wonder, is solitude really the key to creativity? …
Read more »April 26, 2018
Art Inspiration: The Art of the Sketchbook
From the get-go, we called it “Sketchbook Skool”. Not “Sketch Skool”. Not “Watercolor Skool”. Not “Creative Skool” nor “Life Changing Ideas Skool”. We gave it a name that would celebrate the art form. Advancing an idea the artists on our fakulty agreed was essential but overlooked. That sketchbooks weren’t just rough drafts for ‘real’ works of …
Read more »April 5, 2018
Check this out: On your bike!
We love obsessives — artists who focus on a single idea and go really deep. Every day, in her Brooklyn studio, Taliah Lempert reinvents the wheel. For twenty years, she has made drawings, paintings, paper cuts, and prints of nothing but bicycles. Racers, tandems, trikes, roadsters, unicycles, even winners of the Tour de France. Check out her …
Read more »April 2, 2018
Defrosting my sketchbook
Winter is the time I hunker down and wrap myself in my imagination. I brew up stout, steaming mugs of tea, pile up old photo albums and dogeared magazines, then draw long-forgotten faces and wrinkled views of distant, sunny lands. But, ahhh, Spring is finally nigh and I can creep out of my burrow to re-engage with the world. It’s high time to …
Read more »March 30, 2018
A Drawing A Day April 2018 Drawing Word Prompt List
Here are your April prompts for A Drawing A Day! Remember that drawing every day is something to enjoy as well as a way to get better, so have fun with these prompts. Get outside, when the weather permits, and let the fresh air help rejuvenate your commitment to drawing every day. Be sure to share your daily drawings on Facebook, Instagram, …
Read more »March 12, 2018
Inspiration: See Yourself as an Artist
Sketchbook Skool’s Seeing kourse is our latest On Demand offering. It teaches you how to look at the world through the eyes of an artist. But how do you see yourself? Even if you draw every day, do you see yourself as an artist? As Sketchbook Skool co-founder Danny Gregory says, creativity is something we are all born with. But eventually we …
Read more »February 26, 2018
How To: How To Make Drawing Easier
Why do you want to start drawing? Wait, let me rephrase that — you probably don’t want to start drawing. You want to be be really good at drawing. To pick up a pen, grab some paper, and effortlessly draw anything, perfectly, beautifully, dazzling your friends and confounding your enemies. You want to be the next daVinci, to knock out portraits …
Read more »February 25, 2018
A Drawing A Day March 2018 Drawing Word Prompt List
Do you know what the best part about March is? There’s 31 days so that means 31 days of drawing to be done! Did you set out to draw more frequently this year? Are you sticking to it? Sometimes the hardest part can be where to start and we hope these daily drawing prompts help alleviate that for you. Be sure to share your daily drawings on …
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