Keeping a daily sketchbook helps students to see and be present in the world. This artistic practice can also help them:
- Grow and develop new ideas
- Make connections and foster creativity
- Improve drawing ability and observational skills
- Maintain and ignite inspiration
- Experiment with new techniques and materials
- Encourage happy accidents or those unforeseen and unplanned creative discoveries
Boosts creativity
Keeping a sketchbook helps ideas growing and helps to develop new ones. It allows for random connections and juxtapose ideas. Tear images from magazines, then draw over them. Rip out half an image and extend it into something else.
Continuous Practice / Keeps skills sharp
- Keeping a sketchbook improves drawing ability and observational skills dramatically.
- Do draw at least 10 minutes a day from direct observation.
- Drawing from direct observation is the best way to improve observational skills.
- Drawing for the artist is like doing push-ups for the athlete. It is the way that you make your drawing muscles (your observational skills) stronger.
- Keeping a daily sketchbook helps humans to be present in the world. You start noticing everything around you. Nothing is too mundane to draw – your cup of coffee, the materials you’re using to draw with, squirrels at the park, a bike in a rack, a trash can.
Works as an Emotional Download
- Clear your mind of all it needs to remember/ “Download your brain!” It is getting all the noise out of your brain into a system or on the page. This opens us major brain capacity for other tasks.
- Draw all the things that were troubling the mind.
- Distill the mind and gain clarity and focus on major creative projects.
- There is no wrong way to approach a sketchbook. The daily meanderings and doodles are not meant to be art. Nothing is too lovely, too silly or too cliché. Sometimes sketches will be colorful and other times negative and full of self-pity. All the anger and petty stuff stand between the artist creativity.
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