Sketchbook to Style is my step-by-step system designed to guide you through the journey of starting a sketchbook practice to discover your unique artistic style and voice.

**Note: This course was originally published on another platform, but I am thrilled to be able to share it with you on Skillshare now! This was my flagship course for years and the class I am most proud of. I hope you enjoy it!**

A Different Type of Art Class

There are countless “How to Draw” classes and videos online. What I’m teaching in this course is something deeper—something that pushes the boundaries of artmaking. If those other How-To classes are like learning to play technically correct, traditional, classical music—this class is like learning to play Jazz.

It’s about self-expression, individuality, improvisation and above all, style.

As Pablo Picasso said, “Style is the difference between a circle and the way you draw it.”

This class is not about perspective, tone, shading, lighting, or color theory. I’m not going to show you how to draw a circle. Instead, I will guide you down the path so you can find how you draw a circle.

I don’t want to teach you my style, I want to guide you in finding your style.

This course guides you through every part of the sketchbook journey step-by-step: experimenting with tools, conquering the blank page, paying attention, looking inside, developing a habit, doing the work, drawing from daily life, and how to keep up this creative habit for life.

Are you one of those folks who say you can’t draw? Well, guess what—I believe everyone can draw! And learning to draw in your own style is sometimes even easier for people who haven’t spent years trying to “learn” how to draw the “right” way. We’ll also go over some basic drawing tips and techniques.

How A Sketchbook Can Help Your Find Your Style + Voice

Sketchbooks let you tap into your instincts, drop your worries, and inject a playful enjoyment into the act of drawing.

It’s about getting out of a final artwork, all planned out, perfection expectation frame of mind. We will fill our sketchbooks with new ideas, old memories, people we love, things we love, our daily life, and our imagination.

Our sketchbooks will be a visual representation of our minds and hearts and our Self. It will be a means to an end (the joy creativity brings us) and a source for new ideas and projects.

It will be the key to developing your style of drawing, and learning how to draw like you. Once you really commit to your sketchbook practice, and follow through… you’ll never experience drawing the same again.

What’s Included:

10 modules with 40 videos (on artistic style, creativity, mindset, and drawing for discovery)
60 drawing assignments as a PDF download (specially designed as a process to develop your artistic style)
How to experiment and finetune the 7 Visual Elements of your artistic style
Sketchbook Assignment Checklist (to keep track of your progress)

P.S. Want more?

This class exists in book form too! If you want to read all the content from this class and have it on your bookshelf for future studying, check out the book here! All information and drawing assignments are inside the book with extra bonuses and resources as well. Get your copy here!

John Johansson

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