Learn how to fill your sketchbook with expressive illustrations using gouache, markers, colored pencils, and more—no matter your skill level. This beginner-friendly class includes 7 start-to-finish demos and 4 gentle but powerful guidelines to help you build confidence and find joy in the sketchbook process.

Would you like to be a member of The Sketchbook Fillers' Club? Membership benefits include:

a hobby you can enjoy wherever
sketchbooks full of personal, expressive, and colorful work that wows yourself and others
endless growth of creative skills
an annual party where everyone brings a dish to pass and we share art supplies (okay I made this one up but doesn't that sound fun??)

Keeping a sketchbook is for ALL PEOPLE, but most people think it's only for the talented and disciplined. In this course professional illustrator Dylan Mierzwinski breaks down her years of vibrant sketchbook work into four gentle but powerful guidelines, and seven start-to-finish demonstrations to help get you on your way to filling your own sketchbook in an easy, personal, and repeatable way. Materials include gouache, colored pencil, marker, paint pens, and more, but Dylan encourages students to start where they are with what they have.

Lesson Breakdown:

Class Project + Resources: an overview of the class project objective and provided resources
Materials: an overview of the materials I use in the class, and basic supplies needed to follow along
The Four Sketchbook Fillers' Club Guidelines: the heart of the class and the key to my sketchbook success
Ugly Work: a quick note about this essential element that can feel a little shameful
Demo 1: Dylan uses Posca paint markers to make a color swatch chart
Demo 2: Dylan uses Tombow Dual Brush markers to fill a page of layered marker studies
Demo 3: Dylan uses Tombow Dual Brush markers and Caran d'Ache Luminance colored pencils to create a colorful quilt
Demo 4: Dylan uses Tombow Dual Brush markers and Caran d'Ache Luminance colored pencils to create a spread of expressive flowers
Demo 5 part one: Dylan uses a Pentel brush pen and Caran d'Ache colored pencils to capture her inspiration using her "visual note taking" method, and then uses those notes to sketch a spread of custom badges, banners, and pennants
Demo 5 part two: Dylan uses Holbein gouache to paint her spread of badges, banners, and pennants
Demo 6: Dylan uses Holbein gouache and Posca paint markers to encourage herself and others to 'love thy neighbor'
Demo 7: Dylan uses Tombow Dual Brush markers, Caran d'Ache colored pencils, and a Pentel brush pen to draw her "favorite corner"
Quick Review: highlights from the course
Thank you: and ways to keep in touch

Sidney Fife Ciminski

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