I just started a new sketchbook and I'm eager to fill it up quite quickly. On some days I want to draw but I have no ideas and I get a bit frustrated with myself and my lack of creativity. So I hope this class will help me overcome this and give me lots of ideas and different approaches.

Day 1:

I used a screw and made my marks with acrylic paint. I later went in with an ink pen and a marker and drew on it.

Sketchbook Magic I - image 1 - student project

Day 2:

My prompt was "silence" and I used oil pastels for my drawings. I kind of stuggled with the prompt. I just wasn't feeling very creative when I sat down with my sketchbook. So I just randomly started making marks on the paper and I enden up with this kind of abstract landscapey thing on the right page. I then added the sassy nightingale on the left page.

Sketchbook Magic I - image 2 - student project

Day 3:

My prompt was "dinosaurs" and I had 5 minutes. So I drew a hipster triceratops (the markings around its eyes ended up looking like it was wearing glasses, so I played that up a bit), using a toy model as reference and trying to do a continuous line. Ink pen and watercolour.

Sketchbook Magic I - image 3 - student project

Day 4:

My prompt for today was "aliens" and my fortune teller told me to draw in my bed. I frst made some random watercolour and ink blobs (and I made these at my desk, because I didn't want to get too messy in my bed) and then tried to turn them into alien creatures.

Sketchbook Magic I - image 4 - student project

I also made a sketch of my cactus today, because I realized it was balding and I just felt like capturing this:

Sketchbook Magic I - image 5 - student project

Day 5:

My prompt today was "puppet". I don't even know what this is supposed to be, I just randomly started painting with acrylics here. Oh and I'll be uploading new sketchbook pages here for the next 7 days. Hooray!

Sketchbook Magic I - image 6 - student project

Day 1/7

Just a quick and simple one for today. My prompt was "yellow" (the colours are way more vibrant irl, the lighting at my desk sucks).

Sketchbook Magic I - image 7 - student project

Day 2/7:

Today's prompt was "robot". This was challenging for me, as I'm terrible at drawing anything mechanical or technical. So I first did this bunny robot, which definitely wouldn't work in real life.

Sketchbook Magic I - image 8 - student project

After that I felt like playing around with my watercolours some more, so I randomly covered a page with blues and greens and then used the shapes as inspiration to draw this weird robot zombie king on top of it with an ink pen and a black marker. Nor sure how I feel about this one, but it's little bit more interesting than the bunny, I guess?. What do you think?

Sketchbook Magic I - image 9 - student project

Day 3/7:

Today I decided to give the magic bowl a rest and do a more abstract doodle again. I put some ink blobs in black and purple down with a pipette and then smudged it with an old toothbrush and blew on it with a straw. I then drew some random lines on it with a white gel pen. I think I overdid it in some areas, but it's allright.

Sketchbook Magic I - image 10 - student project

Day 4/7:

A little watercolour and ink fish.

Sketchbook Magic I - image 11 - student project

Day 5/7:

Sketchbook Magic I - image 12 - student project

Day 6/7:

Some collage birds and an octopus lady.

Sketchbook Magic I - image 13 - student project

Day 7/7:

Just a random doodle with watercolour, ink and a white gel pen. All done now!

Sketchbook Magic I - image 14 - student project

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