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What if you played without rules and trusted the process?

Explore the FREE Step-by-Step Guide to Beautiful Painted Collage Papers and create your very own
backgrounds for your art journals, collages, envelopes, and so much more.

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Timed sketching with Nathalia Velásquez @puapualena via her Patreon.

The four at the top were one minute each warm ups and the lemon was 3 minutes. It is amazing doing these timed as it removes too much over thinking. Most of these are done

These are from a Skillshare lesson: Thumbnail Sketching: Improve Your Art by Thinking Small with Toby Haseler @tobysketchloose

The focus was on composition...quick, small studies before committing to anything bigger. And honestly? I found them so fr

Yay! We’re now a week into The 100 Day Project. 🎉 These sketches are of pomegranates “disguised as tomatoes” and I did this following along with @viola.artstudio during a live sketching session. Check out her Patreon where she sh

One everyday object.
Different pens. Different pencils. Different approaches.
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Turns out a simple clothespin has a lot to teach. ✏️ Sketching lesson with @susanyeatesartist I loved this...so fun. ❤️
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Day 6: 100 Days of Creative Drif

I’m really enjoying starting with a blind contour as a warm-up. There’s something about not looking at the page that loosens everything up and quiets the overthinking.

The first sketch (bottom right) began with a Uniball broad pen blind

Bubble tree sketches with pen, pencils and watercolor. I learned this fun technique from @viola.artstudio. 🌳
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Day 4: 100 Days of Creative Drifting: a Sketching Practice @dothe100dayproject

Every day “art” objects sketched with pen. 🖋️ I decided to add the reference so I took a photo, printed and glued into my sketchbook. It will be nice to look back and recall what I was sketching.
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Day 3: 100 Days of Creative Dr

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