Draw everyday

7 easy tips to start a sketching habit. Learn how to make a habit of sketching every day. How to start sketching. How to keep a sketchbook

Illustrator Samantha Dion Baker shares the benefits of pursuing a daily creative practice.

Want to create a daily sketching habit? Start drawing things in your ordinary life, and use these drawing prompts to commorate the art of everyday.

Gray days always are a great time we can use to reflect on our work and perhaps better decide what it is that we hope to improve or change in the next months. They are the spark that sets the process of creation in motion. It doesn't take much; it can be any part of an element that catches my eye, be it a particular color, style, texture, or anything really. You'll find a bit of everything in today's selection: Architecture, colors, some of the best photographs from 2016, and more. We hope…

Read on for creative drawing prompts guaranteed to kick-start your imagination and jump-start your artistic journey.

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When I taught my Maine workshop a few weeks ago, I had to do all the driving to Maine and back – 16 hours each way. I generally don’t enjoy driving on a long trip. It’s boring, exhausting, and sometimes frustrating, like the time I blindly followed my GPS into a traffic jam in the […]

I’ve been sketching up a storm and managing to stick to the challenge rule of drawing directly with a pen. I occasionally bend the rules a tiny bit by using a pencil to lay out the lettering, like in the sketch below, but the subject matter is all drawn in ink. (All sketches are done […]