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The Fearless Sketchbook: 14 Days to Creative Confidence

Offered By: Skillshare

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Drawing Courses Time Management Courses

Course Description

Overview

Kick-start a fearless sketchbook habit with two weeks of creative challenges. In this Skillshare class we'll be working through 14 days of sketchbooking challenges for just 15 minutes per day, reflecting on the anxieties blocking creative wellbeing, striving for a playful and experimental mindset.

 This class aims to help you...

- Understand and overcome your creative anxieties 

- Reframe your understanding of 'creative pay-off'

- Kick-start a sustainable sketchbook habit

- Acclimatise to sketching within a time limit

-Turn your creative fears into playful creative risk-taking

Start straightaway with just basic supplies:

  • Sketchbook (alternatively any paper will do)
  • A variety of drawing materials (I'll be using pens, pencils and charcoal... Just use whatever you have!)
  • Watercolour supplies (optional): paints, round-headed brush, water pot, mixing tray 

Syllabus

  • The Fearless Sketchbook: 14 Days to Creative Confidence
  • What You'll Need... What to Expect
  • Fear Squashes Creativity
  • Day 1: Baseline Sketch
  • Day 2: Sketching with Your Non-Dominant Hand
  • Day 3: Drawing with Free Distortion
  • Day 4: Dynamic Shapes PART 1
  • Day 5: Dynamic Shapes PART 2
  • Day 6: One-Liner!
  • Day 7: Spoon Self-Portrait PART 1
  • Day 8: Spoon Self-portrait PART 2
  • Day 9: Pencil-Case Game
  • Day 10: From Memory... From Life
  • Day 11: Eat and Draw
  • Day 12: Creative Hat On!
  • Day 13: Blobtastic Shading
  • Day 14: Comparison Sketch
  • Final Thoughts

Taught by

Kate Willis-Crowley

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