Prep your sketchbook for daily practice to avoid artist block and get into the flow of creation more easily.

Daily sketchbook practice can have a powerful impact on your art. It allows you to develop your skills, explore new topics and mediums, and hone your style through lots of exercises and happy accidents.

And yet, having to make a decision about what to draw every single time you sit down at your desk can be a massive source of anxiety and stress, even if you are a seasoned artist. A blank page is a friction point, an obstacle that can lead you to postpone your creative session or even avoid it altogether. The thought of coming up with an idea, especially when your time is limited, can be overwhelming.

That's why today I'll show you how to prep your sketchbook for daily practice to avoid artist block and get into the flow of creation more easily. We’ll treat our sketchbook like a garden that needs planting, fertilizing, and tending before a beautiful art can bloom in it. On each page, we will seed an element or idea that can later on be developed into a full illustration.

We’ll prepare some backgrounds to draw on, shapes to fill in, patterns to expand, and collages to build on. We’ll also talk about different approach to creative prompts, so you can start using them without feeling overwhelmed.

This method will help you bypass the initial paralyzing anxiety induced by an empty page and will make your creative sessions much more fun and fruitful.

By the end of this class, you will have a sketchbook full of wonderful seeds of inspiration, just waiting for you to dive in and develop a budding idea into a beautiful artwork.

MORE INSPIRATION

If you are looking for more ideas to fill your sketchbook pages, I invite you to check out my other class: "Botanical Bliss: 6 Fun Ways to Fill Your Sketchbook with Floral Doodles."

ABOUT YOUR TEACHER

Hi, my name is Ewa Rosa, and I’m an illustrator and embroidery artist based in Gdańsk, Poland.

Feel free to check my Profile here on Skillshare!

You can also visit my website here.

WANT TO SHARE YOUR WORK WITH ME?

Post it on Instagram and tag me @illustellar

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