Illustration Challenge: Improve Your Drawing Habits And Find Inspiration

1. Intro: Hi. My name is Karla Alcazar and I'm an art illustrator. In the last few years, I've done published work for books and magazines, I've been plotting some secret personal projects and I've also been a top teacher here on Skillshare. As artists, it's really important that we create sustainable drawing habits that can help us develop our own voice and also help us improve our overall drawing skills. But what happens when inspiration is no near to be found? How are we supposed to practice and make drawing a habit if the motivation tab has gone empty. I'm sure, we have all been there. When I was starting out my journey as an illustrator, I would frequently feel stuck and would struggle to find inspiration to draw or to find a subject that could help me improve my drawing skills or to find my own voice. I really needed a little push that could help me practice. This is when I discovered drawing challenges. Drawing challenges can give us that little push that can help us feel inspired and get out of our comfort zone, while giving us the space to practice and create better drawing habits and skills. In this class, I would like to share with you some tips and tricks that drawing challenges have taught me throughout the years. All of these, as we complete our very own illustration challenge specifically created for this class. As we complete our challenge, we'll practice our drawing skills and habits and strengthen our problem-solving abilities, amongst other great things. To complete a drawing challenge, you'll need simple drawing materials such as pencils or markers, but if you would like to work digitally, please feel free to do so. We will also need some blank paper, something to write with, and lots of curiosity to approach this challenge. You'll benefit from this class if you have been feeling stuck in a creative slump or not sure where to go with your style and would like a little project to get things moving. This class is great for beginners but I think you'll have fun completing the challenge even if you're experienced. I hope that by the end of this class you feel inspired, more confident, and with a different perspective on how to approach your illustration practice. I'm super excited to have you here. Hope you join the challenge, that you enjoy this class, and that you have fun. See you in the first lesson. 2. Drawing Challenges: [MUSIC] Since this is going to be a hands-on class and our class project will be participating in this classroom challenge, I would like to briefly explain what a drawing challenge is for those who are not familiar with them. Drawing challenges invite those who want to participate in them to create drawings based on a specific theme, for example, characters or botanical illustration, using a series of specific prompts or materials usually to be completed in a set amount of time. For example, we have Inktober, which I think is one of the most popular drawing challenges out there. Every year, 31 prompts are released. The challenge consists in creating a drawing based on the prompts. This means one drawing per day during the month of October and using ink. There's also Mermay, which happens every year during the month of May in which you get to draw three one mermaids, one for each day. There's also a list of prompts for this challenge too. There's also the hundred day project in which you commit to do 100 drawings and you get to choose a subject. I completely understand that 100 days or even a month can seem really daunting and hard to complete. But luckily, there are other challenges that require way less time. There are challenges like draw this in your style in which you interpret someone else's single drawing so there's no time constraints there. Similar to draw this in your style, there's the draw again challenge in which you get to interpret an old drawing of yours into a new present version. These are just to name a few, but there are so many different drawing challenges that you can do based on your interests and your time availability and, of course, you can create your own drawing challenges, as well. For this class, we are going to create our own challenge, which I'll explain fully in the next lesson, but before doing that, and just in case you are asking yourself, why would we even want to participate in a drawing challenge? What's in for me? I would like to briefly highlight the benefits of doing a drawing challenge and how they can be helpful to us. The first benefit is that they can take us out of a drawing slump really easily. Sometimes, all we need is a little push to get the ball rolling when we're feeling uninspired. By having a list of inspiration sources or prompts at our fingertips is actually quite easy to get things started. They give you an excuse to practice. You have probably have heard this a million times, but we need to keep practicing in order to improve a skill and challenges can make our drawing practice more fun. They help you with consistency. This is key when we're trying to improve our drawing skills or any skill for that matter. Practice is really important, but it's even more important for our practice to be consistent in order to turn it into a habit, then is when we actually start seeing improvement. Our drawing muscle is like any other muscle, it needs time and consistent effort to develop. Drawing challenges can help you draw a bit faster. This was a huge thing for me when I started my journey as an illustrator. Drawing a specific thing could take me a really long time and I would be such a perfectionist, I would get frustrated and, poof, inspiration and my will to draw work up for the day. Drawing challenges can help us in this matter because since we're focusing on an end goal, this is a certain amount of drawings, we don't over-focus on one single drawing and how good this one is. Time limit really helped with this one too. They take you out of your comfort zone. This is perhaps my favorite benefit. Drawing challenges not only prompt us to draw more consistently or faster, which maybe out of our comfort zone already, but these challenges might require us to draw things that we wouldn't have not even thought of drawing, otherwise. In other words, we get to improve our visual language and our problem-solving abilities and we'll talk a little bit more about this in upcoming lessons. They give us the opportunity to practice and work on our own illustrative thinking abilities. I think that sometimes we see drawing or illustration as a skill that has everything to do with how good our technique is. Lateral problem-solving abilities when we draw are equally as important as our technical ones, because this ones will help us to get more clarity on how we want to say things and as a result, it can help us to find our own artistic voice. They help you build a body of work. If you're doing illustration more seriously, drawing challenges can be a really good way to help you build a portfolio and also create content for your social medias. Last but not least, they help create a sense of community. Drawing challenges are a great excuse to connect with other illustrators, to be inspired by them, and to show support to each other and who doesn't like a little challenge every now and then. Knowing how can a drawing challenge can help us in our drawing practice, let's talk about our very own challenge in the next lesson. [MUSIC] 3. Our Challenge: Our final class project will be to complete the drawing challenge created specifically for this class. In this lesson, I will explain what the challenge consists of and what will we require to complete it? Let's begin with our challenge theme. All challenges need a theme, and ours will be narratives. Narratives or little stories can be so much fun to explore, and they can also give us so much material to work with. Let's talk about the number of illustrations and the time we have to deliver them. When I was planning this class project or this drawing challenge, one of my main goals was to make it sustainable. To keep it nice and easy, our final product will be three illustrations. I would suggest aiming to complete one illustration per day and doing them in consecutive days in order for you to practice consistency. But if doing a day on and a day off is more sustainable for you and your schedule, please feel free to do that. Now let's talk about the prompts. For this class project, we will use four prompts for each illustration. Two prompts will be completely personal, and we will use this two consistently for all three illustrations. The other two will be communal prompts. This is, we will all be using the same prompts and things will change for each illustration. This will be related to our challenge theme, which is narratives. In the next lesson, we will start our challenge, and I will explain how to obtain our personal prompts and how both communal and personal prompts will benefit during the practice. Another important thing to consider, materials. In order to maintain this project sustainable, this is to keep the challenge nice and achievable, we're going to try and use simple materials. I highly encourage you to use a very limited color palette. Something from two to three colors, and to maintain the palette consistent throughout the challenge. In my case, I will use markers, which is a medium that I'm very familiar and comfortable with. But I will just be using these three to keep my palette limited. I will also use a pencil and eraser to do the sketches and a fine felt-tip marker to add outlines and details. You'll also need a sketchbook, but if you have been worried to use one and depending on the medium you use, plain printer paper can also work. I will be using printer paper. If you prefer to use digital media, that's completely fine, but I would suggest you to use no more than three brushes and a limited color palette as well. You'll also need a bit of paper to make little notes and something to write with. I will be using these. We want to keep our illustrations relatively simple since our main goal is to feel inspire and to feel like we actually want to draw and explore new subjects. I would suggest to not worry too much about the looks of the final result. But if one of the final illustration inspires you to create a more elaborated version, please do it. I would also love to see it and please upload it to the project section too. To sum it up, we will create three illustrations, ideally one per day. Our theme will be narratives. We will use four prompts for each illustration. Two prompts will be personal, and we will use these two consistently for all three illustrations. The other two will be communal prompts, and things will change for each illustration. We will use simple and easy-to-use materials. Please don't forget to post your illustrations to the project gallery, and if you have questions or would like specific feedback on your project, please feel free to ask. I'll be happy to read your comments. Also, as with other drawing challenges, we're going to have our very own hashtags, so you can find each other's drawings on social media if you wish to post your project over too. We're all set. Let's start our challenge with something really fun and easy. Let's see out our personal prompts. 4. The Prompts: Let's start with a challenge. As we have seen in the previous lesson, our challenge has a total of four prompts. Two personal and two communal. It's really important that we have these two different prompts for this challenge. Your personal prompts are so important because if we want to get out of her comfort zone, we need to do it from a place of excitement and a bit of familiarity. It's difficult to explore something if we don't feel at least a bit confident and find the initial stages interesting and inspiring enough. Plus, I really want to see that if you are through your personal prompts. The communal prompts are also important because they'll give the challenge structures since they'll be linked to the theme of this challenge, which is narratives. More of that in a minute. Plus, I want us all to work with the same prompts because I find that many different interpretations of the same prompts really inspiring. Okay, so let's see if we can figure out our personal prompts. Let's grab a plain piece of paper and let's draw a line. Now, let's think of something that you really enjoy drawing, something that interests you, and something that you feel comfortable drawing and write it down. For me, this is characters. I love drawing people. Characters never fail to inspire me. This thing that you really enjoy drawing will be your first personal prompt. This will be included in your three illustrations. In my case, all three final illustrations will contain a character. Now, let's think of something that you really struggled drawing. Ideally, something that you would like to draw that better or have more confidence drawing and write it down. For me, it's animals. I've spend so much time drawing people for work in practice that animals is something that I have less practice with. This thing that you struggle drawing will be your second personal prompt. This will be included in your three illustrations. In my case, all three final illustrations will contain an animal. Now let's go over the communal prompts. Since the theme were challenges narratives, which is in simple terms a story, and since we can tell a story without emotions in present, emotions will be the first communal prompt. As we mentioned before, the communal prompts will change for each of the final three illustrations, and to keep things fun, we will use a generator to give us a different emotion for each illustration. This is a generator that we will use. I use this generator quite frequently because it has so many different subjects to choose from. I will leave the link in the resources tab in case you want to explore it on your own, a bit later. The second communal prompt will be an object. This object will also be randomly generated by the website mentioned. By using different objects in our illustrations, we will get our narratives or stories, some context. Now, all we have to do is to think of a story that includes your two personal prompts in my case, a character, and an animal, plus the communal prompts. Now we're ready to start with our first drawing. If comfy, make yourself a cup of tea or coffee, get some snacks, and let's get ready to draw. 5. Challenge: Day 1: Hi. Welcome to Day 1. We're now going to do our first drawing. Please feel free to draw along, or if you prefer to do your illustrations once the class is over, that's fine too. Let's find out today's communal prompts. Let's go to our generator. For emotion, we have satisfaction, interesting one, and for object, we have umbrella. Great. These are our first drawing prompts. For mine will be a character, an animal, an umbrella, and satisfaction. Now, all we have to do is to think of a story with these four elements. Don't worry, it can be as simple as you wish. The very first thing that comes to my mind is a boy with a cat walking in a rainy day because they have an umbrella with them and they feel satisfied about it. I'm going to write it down. Now, this is not a bad idea, but at the same time this is just one of the many ideas that we can think of. My first step would be to never go with your first idea. The reason for this is because usually our brains go with what's familiar, and if we want to improve a skill, it's very important that we push ourselves out of our comfort zone even if it's just a tiny little bit. It's important to explore other possibilities so the result feels exciting and for this to be a true challenge. I promise you that exploration will always pay off. In a piece of paper, I would like you to write a few different ideas so we can compare and see which one excites us the most. For me would be maybe a cat happy to be under a garden umbrella and seeing a kid walking by getting soaked by the rain. Well, the cat feels pretty satisfied about it. I immediately feel more drawn to this idea, but let's explore another one. Another idea could be a kid leaving his umbrella behind so the cat can have shelter. Even if you liked one particular idea, I would suggest you to sketch that idea in several ways before you start with your finished piece. We could carry on generating different ideas until it feels right and exciting. You could also vary the elements a little bit. My case, I could change the boy for girl or an adult even, I could try a dog or a squirrel instead of a cat. But personally, I would leave the boy and the cat because I would like to get better at drawing these two specific things at the moment. That would be my second tip. Be mindful of the things that you might not have much experience or practice with and try to incorporate those things into your drawings. For example, I really like to draw characters, but I tend to draw lots of girls. I rarely draw boys, mainly because I feel a bit unsure on how to do their hair. Another tip would be to identify what is exactly that scares you about drawing a specific thing and combat that fear with doing some references. This could be online. I love Pinterest to do this or real life as well. For example, I really like the palette here, but I also like how flowy his hair is, so I think I'm going to use this image as reference for the hair. Knowledge is power. Once you know how to tackle a problem, chances are that you'll feel more excited and confident to draw new things. Once you actually start drawing, it feels less scary. When I did 100-day project, I turned it into 100 days of memories because I really wanted to work on my narrative skills and there were so many things out of my comfort zone but I ended up having a really good time in the end. This project helped me to think more deeply on how to draw narratives, backgrounds, facial expressions, just to mention a few things, and this has helped me enormously in my career. Now that we have our sketch, let's start to add color to it. One of the reasons why I wanted us to use a limited color palette for this project was because I thought it was really important for us to figure out ways to use our limited resources. In this case, how are we going to distribute the colors in the illustration? Now, these things I've mentioned in this lesson are related to working on our problem-solving abilities. Working on our problem-solving abilities is quite easy. By asking ourselves questions such as how, why, and what will help us to stop running on autopilot when we draw. For example, how can I draw this more clearly? What is particularly working here? Being on autopilot contributes to feeling stuck or having creative slumps. This is why it's super important to work on problem-solving. Also, when we do referencing when we are unsure on how to draw a certain thing, we're working on our visual language, which is part of our problem-solving abilities. Visual language is like any other language in which you learn new words until you become fluent. In this case, you'll learn new ways of drawing certain things or to think in any way until it becomes second nature. I feel that sometimes we focus on improving a technique or on how good a drawing are that we forget that improving our problem-solving abilities can actually help us to improve a technical skill. For example, drawing hands would really scare me but it was only when I figure out that the reason why hand seem so difficult to draw for me was that I saw hands as a unit and not as something that has articulations, independent movements, and weight twofold. Practice is important, but if we are unclear on what's not working or working in our drawings and what really scares us the most to draw certain things, we might really struggle to improve. Again, knowledge is power. Also, approaching our struggles with eyes of curiosity and seeing it as something that we can actually solve instead of judgment can really help with our confidence. Also, if you want to become a professional illustrator, it's really important to strengthen our problem-solving abilities even more because it's really important to be able to communicate what the clients needs us to communicate with our art. What works, what doesn't, and why. Now, I'm really liking how the illustration came out, but I just noticed that this pen is actually quite thick for the cat line. I'm not going to use it to outline the boy's face, but I'm going to use it to add a few other details. One last thing. If your creative slump is really intense I would recommend to do little changes in your routine. Maybe going home on a different route, wearing an outfit you might not have worn in a while, listening to new music, try a different genre or film, this can really help. It's all in the little things. That we forget that we only need a little moment of magic to get us out of a creative funk. This is the final illustration. One of the things that I really like about this illustration is the hair. I really felt confident to draw it like that having the reference, and I think that I managed to capture that flowiness that I liked from the reference picture. I also really liked the overall textures that I created with the pencil, specifically on the boy's face and the bushes. One of the things that I really didn't like about this illustration are the really thick outlines. I think that probably I should have done it just with pencil because they just feel a bit odd to me. I'm not quite happy with them, especially the table. I think that I find them a little bit distracting and also they were a bit too thick to draw the cat spades. But I'm actually pretty happy overall on how this illustration turned out. I definitely would like to do a different version and perhaps using a different color palette. Let's do a quick recap of the things that we have talked in Day 1. The first thing is to never go with your first idea. Trying different options can really help you to get out of your comfort zone and that's a real challenge. Be mindful of what you might need to practice a little bit more and try to incorporate those things into your drawings. If drawing something scares you, try doing references. Having a more concrete idea on how to draw something will help you to feel more confident. Working on our problem-solving abilities can help us to get out of autopilot, and this can be done by simply asking yourself questions like why, how, and what. Last but not least, try incorporating some changes into your daily routine. They can be as simple as you wish. It's all in the little things. See you in Day 2. 6. Challenge: Day 2: Hi and welcome to Day 2. Let's find out today's prompts. We have anticipation, and for object, we have toy car. My first idea is a kid opening a box with a toy car in it, and maybe there's a hamster in there too. The second idea, you know, those electric toy cars and you're big enough for you to ride them. I always wanted one, but I never got one. Maybe the sick kid really anticipating their first drive. For this one, I would like to call it a hamster. Last idea, maybe a kid really anticipating buying a toy car, maybe waiting for his toy store to open and to have their dog with them. I like this one, but I find more exciting the second idea. For this one, I would draw a girl just because I always wanted one of those cars, and I want to be carriers who lived that experience through my illustration. Well, I do my illustration. Let's talk about consistent drawing habits. For my sketches, I did a complete side, the one which I really like. I also did a three-quarter one and you can actually see the face here, which is really important. I did a third one that he's completely frontal, but you cannot really see the car. I think I liked the first one better, but I'm gonna go with the second one. I understand that sometimes life gets hectic and it's really hard to dedicate time to things that we love. I'm pretty sure that you've heard many times that you need to draw it daily to improve. While this is accurate, I think it's also really important to consider that not everyone has the privilege to do that. Work, mental health, other responsibilities we might have, amongst other things, can make it difficult to draw every day. I can appreciate that this can be super discouraging and this can feed the creative slump cycle. What can we do about this? Personally, one of the things that has helped me the most when it comes to making my art practice as consistent as possible is working on what I call whatever tiny projects. When I was starting out as an illustrator, drawing something would take me ages. I was so slow. I was so precious about any drawing in my sketchbook, and I would get so frustrated for not getting things right or to even finish a drawing. I would fantasize about maybe one day doing a comic book or a graphic novel. But just to think the amount of hours I would spend on projects like those would really discourage me. The thing is, I wanted that every drawing in my sketchbook was a finished piece instead of a small series of tiny practices. It took me a while to accept that sketchbooks are for sketches, not for masterpieces. It was then when the pressure started to go down and I could focus on a single task for the day. Whatever the result, maybe when Austin unique, I remember I started to do this thing with backgrounds. Since I was busy with school and work, I would give myself 10-20 min per day, roughly to sketch an experiment with backgrounds. In this way, I accepted that in 10 min I was not going to come up with a masterpiece. That was okay. It's ironically, I started to see that the drawings that would take me less time were actually the ones that I liked best. This is because there were no pressures attached to them. I could free myself and I would allow my drawings to be what they needed to be. I started to actually have fun instead of draining my drug practice into a burden. I always say, you can tell if a person had fun drawing by just looking at the drawing to a specific task and give it a timeframe, it feels more achievable because expectations are clear. This is why I love drawing challenges so much because they're very clear on what to do and how much time we have to do it. Now, don't feel bad if you can only carve out a few minutes per day or per week to draw. These few minutes over time will definitely make a difference. The important thing is that you enjoy yourself when you draw in order to make an exciting once you pick up where you left it off. I would recommend to maybe making a list of things that you would like to get better at and try to make it as specific as possible. For example, if you would like to get better at character design, maybe think on the specifics leg, maybe drawing, facial expressions, poses, etc. Give herself a week, month or whatever is sustainable to you. This can really help to get the ball rolling. Remember, the important thing is to create consistency. It becomes a habit not to become pros and a limited amount of time. Another thing, when I was working on my peripheral, I accidentally created this little routine of having some snacks and much comfort shows when I was drawing, I started to associate this lovely time of day with a calming and safer as you. That definitely made me want to draw more. Even to this day, I associate drawing with pampering myself. Remember that our daily routines heavily impact our creative ones. A few years ago, I started to hear a lot of people complaining about until her for being quite demanding. I understand 30 daily finished drawings can seem like a lot. This is why I would also like to encourage you to adjust any drawing challenge to your particular genes. Never feel ashamed for not completing a certain drawing challenge. What matters is that you actually enjoy the process and then you feel excited. As Bob Ross one said, every drawing teaches you something. Talking about what I have learned from this illustration is that I have to admit that I am not particularly fond of this one. I think everything feels a little bit compacted in a way. I think next time I'll be more mindful of proportions because I think that maybe I should have drawn the girl first and then the car. But I think it's also worth mentioning the things that I actually really like. The expression of the hamster I really like. That's really cool. Let's do a little recap of what we've talked about in Day 3. Consistent drawing habits are really important if we want to improve a skill. However, life sometimes gets in the way, so to speak. It's really difficult to dedicate consistent time to an activity, even if it's an activity that we might love doing. Something that we can try doing is giving ourselves out whatever tiny project. We can try to do this by making a list of things that you would like to improve on and set a timeframe to work on that activity, even if it's 10 minutes a day and decide to do this for a week or a month or whatever suits you best, but try to do it consistently. Also, it's really important to create a nice environment or routine. Drawing feels like a nice moment of our day. Like a burden or something that we have to do in order to improve. Enjoying an activity is important in order to make it consistent. See you in Day 3. 7. Challenge: Day 3: Welcome to Day 3, our last day for this challenge. But of course, if you would like to practice some more, you can extend the challenge as much as you wish. Let's see today's prompts. For emotion, we have smugness. Oh, that's a very good one. For object, we have bottle of sunscreen. Maybe we have a boy who is feeling quite proud to have brought his bottle of sunscreen to the beach. Maybe we have a little crab over there too. For the second idea, maybe the kid is trying to find his bottle of sunscreen in his backpack at the beach and he can find it and the dog is happy because he brought it over. The third one, maybe the kid has applied sunscreen on himself and now on the dog and he's feeling quite proud of that. I like both two and three, but I think I'm going to go with number 3. While I do my illustration, let's talk about our voices artist. For the final illustration, I actually decided to sketch each individual idea instead of variations of the same idea just to see them all three visually, but I definitely still like number three the best. I like this shape though. I think that one of the more frequently asked questions I've seen being asked, not only to me but to other illustrators is how do I find my style. I'm sure you've probably have heard more or less the same answer, which is, you will find your style as you practice. Although this is actually quite accurate, I would also like to add a little something and this is the importance of creating or being part of an art community. It doesn't matter how big or small this community may be, I think it's super important to be surrounded by people who understand you and inspire you and that you can learn from them too. I think that the most we expose ourselves to other artists' ideas, influences, and their personal styles, it's easier to discern which ones resonate with us, and over time we're going to be closer and closer to finding our own personal voice or style. I'm going to recommend you this book by Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist, in case you have not read yet. In very lovely and simple ways, he explains how everything out there is already been done. That everything new is just a reinterpretation of something old. These interpretations gives us big hints on our personal voice and how we see the world or in other words, a hint of water voice as an artist is. Considering this, in order for you to re-interpret something is important that you are aware of the many different inspiration sources that other artists have and that might interest you to. Sometimes we might meet people with very niche and specific inspiration sources that we might have not discovered otherwise. This is why I'm super excited to see your interpretations of this art challenge. I'm sure they will be super interesting. Now, our communities can be so inspiring and they can also encourages to complete drawing challenges or to make our drone practice more consistent. Think of an art community as having accountability buddies, you encourage them and they encourage you. When I started out participating in my first mentors, I was so surprised to see that other people have resonated with what I made, that other illustrators and no illustrators alike would comment on similar things like, oh, I like how you told that story in particular or this illustration is really good. This gave me an idea of my strengths and made me more aware of why and how I wanted to say things with my illustrations. We always have something to say. Sometimes all we need is a lipid of clarity. Of course, it was always super nice to also support other artists in the process as well. Now think of this class and all of us here as a little art community. Feel free to ask for feedback to encourage other students all from a place of kindness and respect, of course. This is my final illustration. I think this might be my favorite illustration of them three, oddly enough, I think it's the one that I spend less time with probably because it's the simpler one and maybe that's something that I need to consider for future illustrations that I'm drawn to more simple things. That's really exciting. I can do more of referencing on other illustrators that use that similar style and find inspiration there. Maybe one of the things that I'm not quite happy about this illustration is just the dog's head. It might be too big, but it might be a puppy, so in that sense, that's okay. But probably in my head, I was thinking of an older dog, but it's not a big deal. I'm actually really, really happy with this one. I actually do think the color is really sit this illustration. Let's do a little recap of what we have talked in Day 3. We find our voice or style through practice, but being part of an art community can really help us too. This is because we are exposing ourselves to other ideas or styles and this can help us get clarity on what we like and feels closer to us or in other words, we can figure out what our artistic voice is. Sometimes feedback from others can help us discern what our strengths are. Of course, if you ever get back feedback, please take it with a grain of salt. It's already difficult to be an artist in putting your work out for the world to see. An art community can be a very encouraging and inspiring place. Thank you for joining me in this challenge. Remember, it doesn't matter if you manage to do all three illustrations or if you would like to share works in progress instead of a finished piece, or you would like to share a more elaborated version or one of your illustrations too. Maybe you'd like to carry on with this challenge and do a whole month or a week depending on your schedule. It would be super interesting to see what you come up with and I'm sure that other students are excited to see your work as well. 8. A Few Final Words: We have completed this drawing challenge. Congratulations, I hope that you had fun. In this class we talked about a lot of things such as creating more sustainable drawing habits that are going to help us practice more consistently, our voice as artists, to problem solving and getting out of our comfort zone and how drawing challenges can help us as artists, amongst other things. I hope that you'll find the tips I've shared with you helpful and more importantly that you feel more inspired, empowered and with a different perspective on how to approach your illustration practice. Please don't forget to post your illustrations to the project section, I really would like to see your work. Remember if you'd like some specific feedback or comments on your project please let me know, I'll be happy to assist. Also this is our drawing challenge hashtag in case you would like to post your work on social medias. This is my Instagram in case you'd like to follow. Thank you so much for being here. Send you all a big hug and see you soon. Bye.