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Inspiration
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 …
Read more »February 4, 2018
Watch This: An Inspirational Video to Motivate You To Make Art
In this video from Letters Live, Benedict Cumberbatch reads a perfectly blunt letter from American artist Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse. From Letters Live: “In 1965, Hesse found herself facing a creative block during a period of self-doubt and told Sol of her frustrating predicament. He replied with this letter.” If you’re in need of some inspiration …
Read more »January 29, 2018
A Drawing A Day February 2018 Drawing Word Prompt List
It’s time for another month full of drawing! How did your first month drawing in the new year go? 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 Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest with the hashtag #sbsadrawingaday and for more …
Read more »January 12, 2018
Art Inspiration The Top Art Instagram Accounts You Should Be Following
We’re letting you in on our favorite art Instagram accounts to follow to inspire you. Instagram is an endless portfolio of all the arts from drawing, painting, illustration, to performance and dance. It’s also a unique window into the creative process. But to avoid getting sucked into the infinite, thumb swiping abyss, I set myself certain rules …
Read more »December 21, 2017
Fakulty Chat: Danny and Veronica on A Drawing A Day
Everybody loves a good art challenge. And we have one with benefits that could last far beyond a month. The challenge? Get into the habit of being creative every day! The question: Why? Because thousands of Sketchbook Skool students and our teachers tell us that drawing makes them happy. They say drawing gets them through challenges, makes them …
Read more »December 9, 2017
Art Candy A New Fakulty Art Supply Obsession
If you haven’t heard of the #100DayProject, the idea is pretty simple. You choose one action to do for 100 days straight and share your photos on Instagram using your unique hashtag (#100DaysOf____). Sharing your goal publicly can be a great accountability tool, especially on those days when you can think of a million other things to do instead. …
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