How do you start a page in your sketchbook when you don’t know what to draw, or feel unmotivated? (or both!)
- 68 min. video (Prompts 2)
- Sketchbook Prompts 1
- Sketchbook Prompts 3
- 1 min. short (Deepti’s creepy art)
- 1 min. short (Deepti’s zombie art)
- 1 min. short (cannibalizing art)
See a drawing demo which provides several prompts for how to get your creative juices flowing.
Contrary to the sketchbooks you see on Instagram, real artist sketchbooks are a mess, full of scraps of ideas, crummy looking doodles and drawings, and are rarely finished.
Demo led by Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artist Deepti Menon.
Video Walkthrough
- Blind contours are an exercise where you draw with your eye.
- Blind contour drawings are very unpredictable and super fun.
- Partner up with someone else and draw blind contours of each other.
- Engaging physically with the paper is useful for blind contours.
- Consider what parts of the figure to emphasize to show personality.
- Caran d’Ache crayons vs. Crayola.
- Caran d’Ache crayons are very smooth and consistent.
- Drawing with your non dominant hand, or with 2 hands.
- Using Prof Lieu’s leftover mezzotint prints and photographs start a collage.
- Playing with dramatic changes in Procreate, inverting the colors, etc.
- Using digital media to create the appearance of traditional media.
Prompts
Art Supplies
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