Drawing Patterns: 14 Days of Mindful Drawing for Self-Care

In this class, we will practice mindfully drawing patterns together for 14 days to promote a sense of calm and connecting with the present moment.

This daily challenge will explore 14 carefully selected drawing prompts paired with a different mindful exercise each day, to develop your self-care toolkit whilst creating a set of 14 meditative pattern drawings.

This class is for everyone, whatever your skill or experience level - you do not need any drawing skills whatsoever to benefit from this class.

B E N E F I T S
Cultivating a daily mindful drawing practice through drawing patterns has so many benefits!

• It is relaxing and meditative: an amazing self-care tool to help support your mental health
• No drawing skills are needed whatsoever 
• Very basic supplies you’ll already have
• Easily adapted to suit how much time you have (a drawing could take a couple of minutes or a couple of hours - or more if you get addicted to it!). It’s also easy to pause and come back to a drawing another time if you need to
• It can help overcome the fear of the blank page as it’s a super low-pressure creative activity that doesn’t have to look a certain way
• If you have a wider art & design practice this can be a great way to explore patterns and textures you could incorporate into your wider art practice
• Adaptable to suit a variety of styles and mediums - neat or messy, pen and paper or iPad - this is a practice that can suit anyone!
• It makes a fantastic activity to help bust creative block and re-spark creativity when you’re feeling stuck 

W H A T   Y O U   W I L L   L E A R N
Each day we will explore one prompt which will act as the jumping-off point for a pattern drawing. 
There will be two videos for each prompt:

1: In the first video we will: 

• Explore the prompt together, and look at some examples of how it could be interpreted to give you a framework to interpret the prompt in your own way
• Discuss one related topic - for example, finding inspiration, colour and mood, or adding depth, so that over the 14 days you will build up a ton of additional complementary skills to feed into your pattern drawings
• Reflect on one mindful practice suggestion you can incorporate into your pattern drawing that day to add to your creative self-care toolkit

2: In the second video I’ll be guiding you start to finish through an example pattern drawing of how I would interpret that prompt 

So feel free to follow along with my example, or create your own version each day!

W H A T   Y O U   W I L L   N E E D 
The supplies for this class are very basic - some paper and something to draw with - pens, pencils, markers, crayons - or whatever else you have lying around, and a little time set aside each day for 14 days is all you need!

By the end of the class, you’ll have:

• A series of 14 experimental pattern drawings which explore different methods of drawing patterns
• A framework from which to grow your mindful drawing practice, developing new ways of making repeated marks and patterns to suit your own style, materials and preferences
• An effective self-care tool you can use in your daily life to cultivate a sense of calm and connecting with the present moment through the act of drawing

I can’t wait to see what you create, so let's dive in!

• Introduction
• Class Project + Overview
• Tools + Materials
• Warming Up + Noticing Shapes
• Day 1: Concentric
• Day 1: Draw-Along
• Day 2: Random Fill
• Day 2: Draw-Along
• Day 3: Uniform Fill
• Day 3: Draw-Along
• Day 4: Shape Fill
• Day 4: Draw-Along
• Day 5: Stripe
• Day 5: Draw-Along
• Day 6: Grid
• Day 6: Draw-Along
• Day 7: Straight Lines
• Day 7: Draw-Along
• Day 8: Curved Lines
• Day 8: Draw-Along
• Day 9: Radiate
• Day 9: Draw-Along
• Day 10: Overlap
• Day 10: Draw-Along
• Day 11: Organic
• Day 11: Draw-Along
• Day 12: Colored Lines
• Day 12: Draw-Along
• Day 13: Colored Background
• Day 13: Draw-Along
• Day 14: Color + Shape
• Day 14: Draw-Along
• What Next?
• Thank You!