How to Get Better at Drawing (Sketchbooking 4)

Learn to take drawings you have created in your sketchbook into Illustrator and create patterns from them. You will learn how to vectorize your drawings, how to color the art, neaten your files up, and then make a pattern from the digitized elements. I'll explain what drawings work best and how to maximize the drawings you have by making multiple designs and multiple color ways of each design. I'll explain how to make additional elements to fill in empty areas of your designs. At the end of this class you will be able to choose suitable drawings from your sketchbook, trace and color them and make seamless repeating patterns from them.  

If you have ever struggled to start and maintain a sketchbook practice then this class is for you. My hope is that my very simple and straightforward approach to sketchbooking will help you all get going with a really fulfilling sketchbook practice. I struggled to figure out how to use a sketchbook myself for many year. I would pick up a sketchbook on and off but never really committed to it or understood its importance. But now I have finally at least cracked the code for how I personally like to work. Maybe my process will inspire you as well :) In this 3 part sketchbook series I am going to be breaking down my process of using a sketchbook to better my illustration skills, play and develop ideas.

In this class you will learn how to fill a Sketchbook from Start to Finish. I'll show you the right kind of Sketchbook, some ideas on how to get started and overcome fears that you might have as well as how to actually FINISH filling the book. This is the place where you can be completely yourself and create whatever you want. I hope you'll have a great time creating.

Develop a sketchbook practice while you learn how to draw some cute animals.

Learn how to draw for beginners! Learn step by step how to sketch, pencil values, easy shading techniques, perspective, composition, proportions. Master drawing the source of light and learn to look at the world like an artist!

Hello and welcome to this class where we will be exploring five techniques that will help you to loosen up your approach to a new drawing subject, and will give you new ways to approach a new subject matter.

We will explore the kind of sketchbook page that records the moments of your daily life with little drawings of the things that happen during your day. Sometimes, those are exciting things, but most times, they are only exciting because you chose to remember them. Reading these books in the future is like opening a time capsule. Each page takes you back to those entertaining moments that would be forever forgotten if you had not sketched them. Our project will be to complete a sample page of this type, and learn a lot of art tips along the way. You will appreciate even the little things because you will noticing them.

By practicing drawing and painting everyday, this class aims to help you to be inspired to create, maintain a working practice that is suited to you and learn lots of tips on how to successfully fill your sketchbook.  Your collection of sketches can be the stepping stone to creating larger pieces of finished artworks, or just be a beautiful journal that you can keep and refer to.