The Sketchbook Challenge gets you started - VIP helps you grow. Take the Sketchbook Challenge even further with the VIP upgrade. Upgrade to VIP for recordings of the LIVE ZOOM sessions, additional courses from our guest artists, inspiration, discount codes and resources to support your creativity throughout the sketchbook challenge – and beyond.
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Watch these sessions at your own leisure!
The VIP upgrade for the 2026 challenge includes recordings of all the live Zoom sessions running throughout the challenge. These include:
Launch party on 1st Jan
Monday guest artist interviews
Thursday sketch-along sessions
Celebration party on 30th Jan
That's over 10 hours of sketching inspiration!
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Created with love by our generous guest artists for the 2026 challenge. More content is being added throughout December 2025...
Kolbie Blume
Mini Course
Join Kolbie, watercolour artist and author to learn how to use the technique of watercolour to overcome perfectionist in this special mini course.
Alex Boon
Value £32
Welcome to "How to Start a Nature Journal", a beginner's guide to nature journaling for everyone! Getting started nature journaling can be difficult, but this course will help you begin with confidence.
Kelly Schuab
Value: $27 USD
An expressive collage workshop where you paint, tear and layer your own papers to create abstract landscapes.
Natalie Eslick
Value: $57 USD
Wild Beginnings - Your Path to Wildlife Art Wild Beginnings is a gentle introduction to sketching wildlife, designed for absolute beginners or anyone who feels they "can't draw."
Tricia Johnson
Access for free as a VIP
A gentle, expressive project designed to help you loosen up, explore colour with confidence, and enjoy the freedom of painting without overthinking. Plus get 10% off any online courses with Tricia!
Ali C Board
Hour-long sketching class
In this beautiful online class Ali C Board takes you through a wonderful tutorial focussed on sketching poppies and daisies.
Ruth Ander
Value: £27
Discover the freedom and serendipity of hand-printing at home. Let Ruth guide you through a series of playful printing sessions to make beautiful, finished, pieces of art as well as collage papers and sketchbook starters.
Kaisa Hart
Value: €27 EUR
A peaceful creative escape designed to help you slow down, play with colour and texture, and reconnect with your inner calm.
Gemma Lane
40 minute sketching class
Join Gemma Lane from Green Fox Workshops for a 40 minute recorded tutorial on YouTube. Learn how to use chalk pastels!
Rachel Drake
Access this mixed-media course
In this hands-on course, you’ll explore playful mark making in acrylic paint using brushes and everyday household items—think pastry cutters, old credit cards, cardboard, textured card, bubblewrap, and more.
Sue Bulmer
Value: £4.99
Don't know where to start on your next creative venture? I have just what you need... A list of 100 Sketchbooks Starters to help give your creative spark a kick-start!!
Jennifer Mullin
Value $20
A video companion to the “One Color Abstract” project from Jen’s book, Me & My Ballpoint Pen.
Jeanette Montero
35 minute class
Join Jeanette for a special video tutorial on the art of blind contour drawing. Created especially for Sketchbook Challenge VIP members!
Amy Murray
10 minute video tutorial
This VIP gift with Amy is a tiny doorway back to yourself, your imagination, your joy, your wild-hearted creativity. With one little project, you’ll remember what it feels like to play again.
Kelly Herrick
Save 20% on the course fee
Turn your sketchbook into a gallery of gorgeous mini watercolour landscapes!
Tish Reed
Save $40 on course fee
Explore Boundless Blooms, Tish's newest course, guiding you through playful techniques to painting a series of mini canvases and then going BIG on a large canvas!
Wendy Mitchell
Bonus ebook
Cyanotypes — those deep-blue prints made with botanicals — capture nature’s quiet poetry in every shadow and shape.
Susan Yeates
Value: £25
This practical short course will guide you through 7 days of creativity-boosting warm-up exercises for your sketchbook.
Margie Woods
15 minute class
A short video mini class where I’ll show you a few simple ways to bring writing, text, and words into your sketchbook. This is an easy introduction to asemic play, meant to spark ideas and give you permission to explore without rules.
Karen George
Value £20
Tuesday 24th February 2026. Join me in my studio via Zoom where I'll be sharing how I take my sketchbook on a journey of exploration; a fascinating window into what ignites ideas for future work.