Video: Choosing Your Materials (length: 23:18 min)

Video: Choosing Your Materials (length: 23:18 min)

The Sketchbook Habit (Recorded)

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Welcome to The Sketchbook Habit!

  • Intro Video (length: 2:25 min)
  • Course Overview
  • Recommended Sketchbook Materials List
  • Video: Choosing Your Materials (length: 23:18 min)
  • Frequently Asked Questions

Resources and References

  • Historical Artist Sketchbooks
  • Contemporary Artist Sketchbooks
  • The Sketchbook Library
  • My Sketchbooks Through the Years
  • Sketchbook Artist Interviews

Module 1

  • Video: My First Sketchbook (length: 8:18 min)
  • Video: Historical Artist Sketchbooks (length: 24:21)
  • Video: Beginning Your Sketchbook (length: 14:37 min)

Day 1: Sketching Prompt

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  • Beginning your sketchbook
  • Your inside cover:
  • What to draw today:
  • Video: Ball Point Pen - Lemon Drawing Demo (length: 5:59)
  • Video: Ballpoint Lemon drawing demo, extended (length: 1:16:30)

Day 2: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: Sketchbook drawings by Michaelangelo Buonarotti
  • What to draw today:

Day 3: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: the sketchbooks of Albrecht Durer
  • What to draw today:

Day 4: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: the illustrated letters of Vincent Van Gogh
  • What to draw today:

Day 5: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: the sketchbooks of Adolph Menzel
  • What to draw today:

Day 6: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: sketchbooks by Pablo Picasso
  • What to draw today:

Day 7: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: the travel sketchbook of Eugene Delacroix
  • What to draw today:

Module 2

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  • Video: Writing In Your Sketchbook (length: 7:51)
  • Video: Contemporary Sketchbook Artists (length: 19:33 min)
  • Video: Ink Wash & Negative Space Demo (length: 11:33 min)
  • Video: Ink Wash and Negative Space, part 1 (extended, length:18:52 min)
  • Video: Ink Wash and Negative Space, part II (extended, length: 42:19 min)
  • Video: Lemon Painting Demo (length: 6:58 min)
  • Video: "Lemon Painting Demo (extended, length: 20:30 min)

Day 8: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: Sketchbooks by William Turner
  • What to draw today:

Day 9: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: the sketchbook sanctuaries of Frida Kahlo
  • What to draw today:

Day 10: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: the sketchbooks of John Singer Sargeant
  • What to draw today:

Day 11: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: the sheep sketchbook of Henry Moore
  • What to draw today:

Day 12: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: sketchbooks by Edgar Degas
  • What to draw today:

Day 13: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: sketchbooks by Andrew Wyeth
  • What to draw today:

Day 14: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: the nature sketchbooks of Beatrix Potter
  • What to do today:

Module 3

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  • Video: Apple Painting Demo (length: 10:52)
  • Video: Apple Painting Demo (extended, length: 1:19:56 min)
  • Video: Plein Air Demo (length:13:59 min)
  • Video: "Plein air demo" (extended, length: 1:10:41 min)

Day 15: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: sketchbooks by John Constable
  • What to draw today:

Day 16: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: the sketchbook of William Blake
  • What to draw today:

Day 17: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: the childhood sketchbook of Peter Paul Rubens
  • What to draw today:

Day 18: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: a sketchbook by Theodore Gericault
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Day 19: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: the sketchbooks of Salvador Dali
  • What to draw today:

Day 20: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspirartion: the Latin textbook of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  • What to do today:

Day 21: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: the Paris sketchbook of Ilya Repin
  • What to do today:

Module 4

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  • Video: Creating Texture with Rock Salt (length: 9:05 min)
  • Video: Rock Salt Texture Painting Demo (extended, length: 1:10:07 min)
  • Video: Start With Abstraction (length: 14:56 min)
  • Video: Start with Abstraction: (extended, length: 1:56:21 min)
  • Video: Continuing Your Habit... (length: 10:35 min)

Day 22: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: the ledgers of Edward Hopper
  • What to do today:

Day 23: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: the Rome sketchbook of Jacques-Louis David
  • What to draw today:

Day 24: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: the sketchbook of Bella and Marc Chagall
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Day 25: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: the summer road trip sketchbook of James McNeill Whistler
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Day 26: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: the sketchbook of Berthe Morisot
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Day 27: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: the sketchbooks of Isabella Lilias Trotter
  • What to draw today

Day 28: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: the sketchbook of R. Crumb
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Day 29: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: the 172 sketchbooks of Charles Ritchie
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Day 30: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: sketchbooks by James Jean
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Day 31: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: sketchbooks by James Gurney
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Day 32: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: sketchbooks by Luke Adam Hawker
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Day 33: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: sketchbooks by Nicolas Sanchez
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Day 34: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: sketchbooks by Olga Andrushchenko
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Day 35: Sketchbook Prompt

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  • Inspiration: sketchbooks by Guno Park
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Day 36: Sketchbook Prompt

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  • Inspiration: sketchbooks by Morton Schelde
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Day 37: Sketchbook Prompt

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  • Inspiration: sketchbooks by Cesar Santos
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Day 38: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: sketchbooks by Giacomina Ferillo
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Day 39: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: sketchbooks by John Mullane
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Day 40: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: sketchbooks by Gareth Jones
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Day 41: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: sketchbooks by Luis Colan
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Day 42: Sketching Prompt

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  • Inspiration: sketchbooks by Lena Sen
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Day 43

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  • Inspiration: sketchbooks by David Morales
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Day 44

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  • Inspiration: Sketchbooks by Alphonso Dunn
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Thank You!

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