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January Sketchbook Challenge

Sketchbook Challenge – Day 31

Day 31 – Celebration!

Congratulations. You have reached the last day of the 31-day Sketchbook Challenge. 

For today’s prompt, sketch how you like to celebrate!

Do you like an energetic, loud, and colorful celebration, or a quiet one? It certainly is time to celebrate your time spent sketching. Celebrate you! Maybe it will be with a cup of tea and a sweet treat. Or maybe, it comes in the form of a new sketchbook and ink pens. Regardless of how you like to celebrate or what you are celebrating, find a way to capture an aspect of it. 

Keeping a habit for at least 31 days is a huge task. Your brain naturally wants to resist. It is my hope that you gained something from these past 31 days–growth, confidence, inspiration, or motivation to keep on sketching. 

You don’t have to stop sketching tomorrow. In fact, my goal now is the fill a sketchbook for each day of the entire year. I am going to keep going. Perhaps some of you will join me.

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January Sketchbook Challenge

Sketchbook Challenge – Day 30

Day 30 – Draw a collection.

Do you collect anything? Maybe silver spoons. Figurines. Cookbooks or recipes.

Most people I know collect something.

Or, maybe you have a collection that you didn’t intentionally start but you just seem to have a bunch of that one thing. It could even be a collection of paper clips.

Regardless, today’s prompt asks you to draw that collection. Now, you don’t have to draw the entire collection. Maybe just a handful of that item.

Feel free to fill the page or just a part. But, take your time with each object and see them individually. Once you have sketch each one, now see how they work together to make a composition!

 

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January Sketchbook Challenge

Sketchbook Challenge – Day 29

Day 29 – Draw something with wheels!

It can be anything with wheels, even if it only has one. Your subject can be a car, a big old bus, or a child’s toy.

You could even look up images to gain inspiration or, once again, use your imagination to create a new contraption. Maybe your object with wheels is in motion, or parked and waiting for the go!

 

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January Sketchbook Challenge

Sketchbook Challenge – Day 28

Day 28 – Draw two objects that typically are not found together. 

You can handle this sketch a few ways- 

  1. You could simply use your imagination and juxtapose two objects together.
  2. You can find two objects in your home and create a unique composition.
  3. Or, you can do a Google search for random objects found together. 

How you go about this is up to you! Have fun. Don’t be afraid to be creative and a little odd. 

Pushing boundaries will help inspire more creativity.

I can’t wait to see what you come up with. 

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January Sketchbook Challenge

Sketchbook Challenge – Day 27

Day 27 – Draw a view from one of your rooms inside your dwelling.

Maybe you are sitting in bed early in the morning. What do you see off in front of you?

Or, maybe you are sitting at the kitchen table. What do you see when you look straight ahead? 

Perhaps you have a comfy chair in your living room. You can probably turn your head a variety of ways to find a view you would like to capture in your sketchbook!

It can be a wide perspective or a small one. Be brave. Try to capture the angle of where you are viewing that particular part of the room. Maybe set up a vanishing point to help guide your lines. No need to get too technical. It can be wonky and scribbly. And, it can be as detailed as you have time and patience for. 

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January Sketchbook Challenge

Sketchbook Challenge – Day 26

Day 26 – Draw a plant.

You choose whether it is a houseplant or a plant found outside. 

Take the time to really see the plant. See its overall shape. See the values that join together to make a whole composition. And, don’t be afraid to make that shadow the darkest part of your drawing. Lights need the darks to pop. If you are looking at your sketch and thinking that it seems a bit dull, try pushing those darks a bit. 

It’s OK to make a mistake or overwork a piece. That’s how you learn, right? 

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Sketchbook Challenge – Day 20

Can you believe we are at Day 20? Pause for a moment and celebrate the fact that you have been sketching and taking on these challenges since the beginning of the month. Keep going! 

OK. For today’s prompt, we are going to draw a towel. Now, this is going to be a bit of a challenge because you have to use a very rigid tool in order to create something soft. 

Place your towel in different positions until you like a composition you want to draw. You can fold it neatly or lay it out so that it has folds and crevices. It’s up to you!

Here’s a tip: Start light and work in layers. Light pressure. Light layers. Build up from those light layers gradually until you are satisfied. The tonal ranges in a towel will be soft and gradual. Don’t be in a hurry to darken it.

Remember, this is more about the practice and the learning to see than the end result. Don’t get stuck on the latter if it doesn’t match exactly what you envision.

Keep learning to see!