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10 days of fun tutorials to help you re-discover your love of sketching
If you’re struggling with finding time to sketch or feeling a little frustrated with your pencil sketching, then join this 10 Day Sketchbook Challenge with Susan to dive deep into how to use pencils in a variety of different ways.
During this unique ten day sketchbook challenge, Susan will share with you ten separate video tutorials exploring pencils in different ways.
All you need is ten mins per day (for ten days in a row), a sketchbook and a small selection of pencils from hard to soft.
Let me show you what we will get up to in this challenge...
Each day you will be sent a NEW video tutorial explaining a simple sketchbook exercise that explores pencil sketching.
Watch the video and then it's your turn to sketch. Each exercise will take just 5-10 minutes to complete.
By the end of the 10 days you will have learned ten new techniques, filled ten sketchbook pages with different pencil marks and had a lot of fun along the way...
Play with your pencils
Join me for this fun 10-Day Sketchbook Challenge - originally hosted in June 2024, you can now start at any time - taking the challenge at your own convenience!
Ten days of sketching tutorials that explore different skills and ways to tap into your pencil drawing skills and creative brain.
Each day has a different sketching tutorial for you to explore.
Day 1 and 2 help you to understand your materials by exploring the hard and softness scale and start mark-making and quick gestures in our sketchbooks.
In this exercise we really look at different ways to use expression and emotion in our pencil drawing.
In several of the tutorials we also look at observational drawing in pencil using different methods. This will help to build up your peers of observation but also different techniques that you can use for all sorts of sketches or studies!
The exercise taps into the two different sides of the brain with a fun mirroring exercise. This also helps you to let go of perfection, yet focus on the present moment.
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As soon as you login you gain access to the introductory videos and the Day 1 tutorial. Then each day for the next 9 days another exercise will be shared with you. Once you have them all they are yours to dip back into whenever you need them!
You need a sketchbook, small selection of pencils from hard to soft, a rubber and a pencil sharpener.
Each tutorial will provide you with a list of materials needed for the specific exercise.
Absolutely. In fact this challenge will be perfect as all these tutorials are short, simple and extremely accessible even if you have limited experience with drawing and sketching.
Oh no worries at all. The tutorials are released into your course portal at a rate of one per day, but you can take as long as you need to give them a try. The tutorials do not disappear after the 10 days either, so you can take as long as you need to work through them.