For today’s prompt, draw your keys.
Actually, draw any sort of keys! They can be loose, like in the image above, or attached to a key ring.
Keys attached to a key ring will allow for unique angles and interesting details. Again, this supports your practice of learning to see. Capture the tiny lines, the grooves, the shine.
As a bonus, include any interesting key chain items!
Today’s prompt: Draw your shoes or one shoe!
Find one that is your favorite, or one that rarely gets picked to step out into the world.
It can be simple or elaborate with long laces and fine stitching.
A helpful tip?
Look at the overall shape. Start with the contour lines.
See the shoe as an object built shape by shape. Are there circles, ovals, rounded rectangles?
In other words, try not to draw the shoe by ‘seeing’ the shoe as a whole. Try drawing the shoe by noticing the shapes of the spaces within– the shapes of the sole, the toe, and the shapes shadows make. Break the whole into those smaller shapes and place them where they fit in relation to the overall outline of the shoe.
Remember, a sketchbook is a place for practice and mistakes. It is not a place for finished pieces that you put up for sale. Well, maybe you get lucky every now and again, but do remember that is not the first purpose of a sketchbook.
Give yourself permission to draw a very wonky shoe today.
Let’s draw!
Autumn
Today’s prompt is Random.
Look around your dwelling and find some random object you have lying around. Is it a figurine, a random sock without a match?
Maybe you have forgotten how you acquired it. Maybe you have no idea why you really keep that random thing. But, somehow you just can’t seem to let it go.
If the word random doesn’t spark an object to sketch today, then what does it symbolize for you? Maybe random is an idea or a person. Did anyone randomly send you a letter? Call you?
Whatever the first thing is that comes to mind when you think of the word random, try to capture it on the page.
Find some rest and treat yourself today,
Autumn
It’s December 31st. Not only New Year’s Eve but the eve of our sketchbook challenge. Let’s prepare, shall we?
Step 1: Grab your sketchbook. Open to the first page. Sign it and date it! You can choose to date it for December 31st, 2020, or January 1st, 2021.
Step 2: Set an intention and write it down. What do you want to get out of this challenge? What do you hope for? Make it relevant and meaningful to you. You don’t need to share this intention with anyone. And, you can keep it short. For me, I want to get better at drawing with pencil and ink. More specifically, I want to improve my line drawings.
Some other ideas for intentions:
I want to jumpstart my creativity.
I want to practice how to trust my creative voice.
I want to start a daily sketching habit.
I hope to overcome my negative self-talk about my abilities as an artist by drawing every day despite myself. (Yep!)
Your intention for taking on this sketchbook challenge can be as personal or general as you want. But, do set an intention. Give this practice purpose so that when or if someone were to ask WHY you can answer perfectly.
Bonus Step 3: After signing, dating, and writing down your intention, doodle around it!
Bonus Step 4: Maybe decorate the cover with stickers.
If you are so inclined to share your why, please comment below or on my Art Journaling with Autumn Facebook Group (You can still join this group). I would love to hear some of your reasons for doing this with me.
Autumn