Creative Visual Diary: Learn to Draw Your Life

Practice your drawing skills with prompts and ideas that will help amplify your creativity

• Introduction
• Getting Ready
• Getting Ideas
• Laying Out Your Stories
• What’s Next for Your Visual Diary?
• Final project

Drawing is a universal language that allows us to delve into our life, memories, and thoughts. Illustrator and cartoon artist Pepita Sandwich uses illustrations to share feelings and observations through a visual diary. She has built a career communicating both personal and universal experiences through pictorial storytelling, and creates illustrated essays for The Washington Post and The New Yorker. Pepita has also worked with brands including Adidas and Facebook, and has published two books, Survival Diaries and Women Move Mountains.

In this course, develop your drawing skills, and learn to observe daily life as an illustrated journal. Pepita teaches you how to express yourself as a character, and document your days and experiences that resonate with others. First explore chronicling in your sketchbook and then as a digital version for social media. Let people see through your lens.

• About Me
• Influences
• What Is a Visual Diary?
• Materials and Techniques
• Creative DNA
• Draw Yourself
• What’s inside Your House
• Drawing Safari
• Time Travel
• Create a Single-Panel Visual Entry
• Creating a Multi-Panel Entry
• Creating an Hourly Multipage Diary Entry
• Experimental Freestyle Drawing
• Digitize and Share
• Make a Collection of Stories
• Creative Visual Diary: Learn to Draw Your Life