Sketchbook
Update your Sketchbook Webpage every Friday
**Organize your Webpage, remember to separate and label each project. Make it clear for your audience.
Sketchbook Artwork
Instruction:
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Draw something in your sketchbook every day.
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Post 3 sketchbook artworks on your website every week
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Organize each week posting and remember to mark the week. Example: Week 1, Week 2...
Sketchbook Ideas and Tips
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3 animals wearing clothes
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A long, full page of a birds
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Practice drawing your hand in different positions
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Your bedroom
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Draw your dream
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Cut a triangle out of a piece of paper, tape it to a window, and draw only what is inside of the triangle
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Sill life drawing; using 5 things in your pantry or cabinets
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Trace around your hand and then go in and try to make it look like something other than a hand drawing
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Draw a mug with someone or something peeking out of the top
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Make up some underwater creatures
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Fill a page with only a section of an animal
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Turn your initials into a drawing of some sort of food
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Separate your entire page with 6 lines, then fill in the spaces with different patterns
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Draw something using only dots
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Clouds
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Dreamhouse
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Draw a self-portrait using pencil, and smudge it with your fingers so it’s as blurry as you can make it
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Create a cartoon character
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Draw the outline of something without using lines. You have to just use the edge of a pencil to shade around where the object outline would be
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Draw a skeleton the best you can, just from memory
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Stacks and stacks of cars
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Draw the simple house shape you used to draw as a kid, but then fill it in with tons of details
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Half your face, half someone else’s – it can be a magazine face
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Draw something (object or still life) using all cross-hatching
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Fill your page with stars, then color in all the negative space
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Cut out eyes, noses, and mouths from a magazine, tape them onto your page, and copy them
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Draw a basic face shape on your page, then separate it into lots of geometric shapes to color in or draw patterns in
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Write your name in the center of the page, then draw things, people, ideas, whatever that you love around your name
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Splatter ink, watercolor, tea, what-have-you on your page and turn it into something cool
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Cut shapes out from magazines and use them to ‘draw’ something on a sketchbook page
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Find an image of an old master painting, and copy it into your sketchbook
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Make a simple line drawing, then write all over the top of it- try to ‘draw’ the words with beautiful lines
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Find some texture that you like and do a few close-up studies of it in your sketchbook
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Use liquid ink or a Sharpie to draw a black animal silhouette then use a white gel pen to draw its skeleton over the black
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Draw all the flowers you can think of without looking at any reference pictures (or flowers). Make ’em up if you wish
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Make a page full of copied logos
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Start with a tiny circle in the center of your page, then draw outward, filling your page with tiny drawings
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Hands, hands, and more hands
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Fill the page with a grid and draw as many insects as you can think of (or makeup)
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Draw the cover of your favorite book or album art
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2 circles- shade one to look like a ball, and the other to look like a hole
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Draw an object, but personify it by giving it a face
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Spoons and forks
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Inside corner of a room
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Outside corner of a building
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Marbles
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Crumpled paper – bonus points for shining a light on it from the side so yo have dramatic lighting
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A glass of water with or without ice
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Scribble, scribble, scribble
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Tree and fill in the trunk area with a really unusual pattern