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Inspiration
September 29, 2018
A Drawing A Day October 2018 Drawing Word Prompt List
Here are your October prompts for A Drawing A Day, hand lettered by Jonathan Twingley! If you’re participating in Inktober or any other challenge, you can use these prompts for fresh inspiration! Or for an extra challenge, try to incorporate BOTH challenges’ prompts into one drawing! Be sure to share your daily drawings on Facebook, Instagram, …
Read more »August 30, 2018
A Drawing A Day September 2018 Drawing Word Prompt List
Here are your September prompts for A Drawing A Day, hand lettered by Anna Denise Floor! Whether you’ve done a drawing every day, or picked up prompts that inspire you here and there, see if you can recommit to trying every prompt this month! You might surprise yourself. Be sure to share your daily drawings on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and …
Read more »August 20, 2018
Inspiration: Take a risk.
Being creative usually involves a risk or two. When you try something new, whether it’s a new medium, a new idea, (or a new Zine format!), you’re stepping out of your comfortable shoes, the tried and true, and into unfamiliar terrain. “Here be dragons” medieval cartographers used to write on the unexplored parts of their maps. Proceed with …
Read more »July 28, 2018
A Drawing A Day August 2018 Drawing Word Prompt List
Here are your August prompts for A Drawing A Day, hand lettered by Nate Padavick! Be sure to share your daily drawings on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest with the hashtag #sbsadrawingaday and for more inspiration check out #SBSsketchbookinspiration where we feature fakulty art each day so that inspiration never stops!
Read more »July 25, 2018
Inspiration: Confessions of a dilettante
Read more »July 23, 2018
Listen To This: Our Favorite Podcasts
Are you a podcast addict? Many of us on the Sketchbook Skool staff love to plug in to podcasts while we work and make art. Here are some of our favorite creativity podcasts: Michael Nobbs’ One Thing Today. Room in the Trees. The Creative Superheroes podcast. Your Creative Push. Art Openings. Kick in the Creatives. Make it Then Tell Everybody. …
Read more »July 6, 2018
Inspiration: Taking Back Summer
When I was a boy, summer meant playing in the street with other kids from the neighborhood. Building tree houses, playing Cowboys and Indians, catching frogs and fireflies. We’d be allowed to go out again after dinner, the summer sun hanging alongside the buttery moon, playing in the lengthening shadows till we were called in for bed. Some …
Read more »July 2, 2018
Inspiration: Be not afraid
Art and fear* are all too often linked. We’re afraid to start making art after a long absence. We’re afraid of taking creative risks. Of the first blank pages in a new sketchbook. Of taking a kourse to improve our skills. Of other people’s opinions. I understand fear. I’ve been plagued by it my whole life. It’s one of the burdens of creativity, …
Read more »June 28, 2018
A Drawing A Day July 2018 Drawing Word Prompt List
Here are your July prompts for A Drawing A Day! Where are you on your yearly goals? Have you kept them up? Have you let them lapse? Now is as good a time as any to push yourself to keep going, or to jump back in to a daily drawing practice! (Hand lettered prompts by Sabine Wisman!) Be sure to share your daily drawings on Facebook, Instagram, …
Read more »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 …
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