Susan Yeates, Artist/Sketchbook Challenge VIP Upgrade 2026

  • £30

Sketchbook Challenge VIP Upgrade 2026

  • Course
  • 34 Lessons

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.

Included in VIP

Recordings of all LIVE Zoom sessions

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!

VIP upgrade

More creativity. More joy.

You’re already making time to sketch, why not make that time even more meaningful?

Upgrade to VIP for additional teaching, inspiration, and resources to support your creativity throughout the sketchbook challenge – and beyond.

Upgrade now for just £30

Included with VIP

Here's just some of the bonus content

Created with love by our generous guest artists for the 2026 challenge. More content is being added throughout November and December 2025...

Kolbie Blume

Watercolor for Recovering Perfectionists

Mini course

Join watercolour artist Kolbie Blume to explore just how working with watercolour can help you to overcome perfectionism.

Alex Boon

How to Start a Nature Journal Course

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.

Natalie Eslick

Wild Beginnings Course

Value $57USD

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

Direct Painting Flowers Course

Access for FREE

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!

Kelly Schaub

Landscapes of Letting Go

Value: $27

An expressive collage workshop where you paint, tear and layer your own papers to create abstract landscapes.

Ali C Board

Poppies and Daisies Tutorial

Join Ali for an hour long class

In this beautiful online class Ali C Board takes you through a wonderful tutorial focussed on sketching poppies and daisies.

Ruth Ander

Playful Printing at Home Course

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

Mindful Art Journalling Retreat

Value: €27

A peaceful creative escape designed to help you slow down, play with colour and texture, and reconnect with your inner calm.

Gemma Lane

Summer Field Chalk Pastel Tutorial

Join Gemma for a 40 minute class

Join Gemma Lane from Green Fox Workshops for a 40 minute recorded tutorial on YouTube. Learn how to use chalk pastels!

Rachel Drake

Playful Marks for Creative Compositions

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

Ebook: 100 Sketchbook Starters

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

Me and My Ballpoint Pen Course

Value: €20

A video companion to the “One Color Abstract” project from Jen’s book, Me & My Ballpoint Pen.

Jeanette Montero

Blind Contour Drawing Tutorial

A 35 minute drawing class

Join Jeanette for a special video tutorial on the art of blind contour drawing. Created especially for Sketchbook Challenge VIP members!

Amy Murray

Remember Your Inner Child Class

A 10 minute video class

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.

Tish Reed

Boundless Blooms Course

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! Plus Tish shares a 30 min flower painting tutorial as well!

Wendy Mitchell

Creating with Nature

Bonus Ebook

Cyanotypes — those deep-blue prints made with botanicals — capture nature’s quiet poetry in every shadow and shape.

Kelly Herrick

Landscapes in my Pocket

Save 20% on the course fee

Turn your sketchbook into a gallery of gorgeous mini watercolour landscapes!

Susan Yeates

7 Days of Sketchbook Warm-Ups

Value: £25

This practical short course will guide you through 7 days of creativity-boosting warm-up exercises for your sketchbook.

Margie Woods

An invitation to Use Asemic Writing

15 minute video 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

Sketch and Explore Online Class

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.