Thanks to this class and another artists videos of her daily sketching, I decided to start a daily sketchbook myself. I've always liked to be creative, but I tended to give up very quick, because I just didn't like what I made. Which is stupid, because I know that without practice there won't be any wonderous masterpiece just happening.

I've managed to stick to writing after years of giving up, so why not do the same with drawing?

So I've decided to embark on this daily sketching journey. I'm doing other prompts and daily tasks as well, but this here is the place for trying out something different and I'm looking forward to following along with the classes.

Happy sketching, everyone!

Day 1:

So for the first class what I came up with was a tea stirrer made of glass. I'm not overly happy with what I did with it and I might just try to draw something a bit more tangible with it in a while. Or I might add some ink and create something else from this. We'll see :)

My Magical Sketchbook - image 1 - student project

Day 2:

For today's prompt the magical bowl picked the word 'Iran' for me, and my random tool selection gave me my favourite fountain pen (with my beloved purple ink. Just saying :D)

I didn't quite know what I wanted to draw for this prompt, but after looking at a few pictures I took in Isfahan I decided to move way out of my comfort zone and try my hand at architecture.

This picture was inspired by the Imam Mosque in Isfahan.

What I liked most about today's assignment was that I stuck to it. As I said, architecture is as far away from my comfort zone as one can get (possibly the only thing rivaling is, is drawing people). But I stuck with it, even if I wanted to throw the towel about three times during the little sketch and while the result looks very little like the reference picture (taken by me, so no copyright problem ;) ), I'm very pleased with the result.

I may just try to draw more architecture in the future.

My Magical Sketchbook - image 2 - student project

Day 3:

Today the magic bowl gave me the prompt 'fairytale' and I chose to use watercolours. The dice gave me a time frame of 4 minutes.

Having this narrow time restrain was strange, because I wanted actually draw something tangible, not just a doodle or a pattern. But how can you draw something in 4 minutes?

Well, I didn't quite manage it, but I got enough on paper that I know what direction I want to go and that I can continue/expand on later on.

And knowing I don't have much time forced me to basically go with one of my two first ideas and to do away with the questioning and doubting my ideas. Just no time. I painted before I could overthink what I'm doing (or think about it at all) and then I had to just go with it.

On the one hand that was a little stressful - on the other hand it was very, very freeing.

(Also a tip: pick a song that's approximately the time you want to paint/draw. It's inspiring what you're creating and at least for me, I like it more if my working is timed by a song instead of a timer.)

My Magical Sketchbook - image 3 - student project

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