Feeling a bit meh with your art lately? These are my favourite go-to sketchbook prompts when I need a boost - and they’re perfect if you want to loosen up, reconnect with nature, and feel creative again:
🍃 2-Minute Leaf
🎨 Blind Contour Drawing
🌿 One Object, Three Ways
💚 (And a couple more inside the video...)
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Free stuff
Materials I love
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- Large Moleskin Sketchbook
- Pocket Moleskin Sketchbook
- UniPin Fine liner pens
- Lamy Safari Fountain Pen
- Blackwing Palomino Pencils
- Winsor and Newton Sketchers Watercolour Set
- Caran D’Ache Neocolor II watercolor wax pastel set
- Winsor and Newton Designers Gouache
- Grey Brush Pen (Pitt Artist Pen)
- Polychromos Pencils
About me
I’m Susan – artist, author and sketchbook hoarder. I teach aspiring sketchbook artists just like you, how to live more creatively, re-discover your inner artist, build confidence in drawing, fill sketchbooks and make art you can be proud of. Find out more about me.
To re-discover your love of sketching please visit my Start Sketching page.
