Sketchbook Exercises for Artistic Growth
Keep Using Your Sketchbooks
A course by Sarah van Dongen , Illustrator
Joined March 2020
About the video: Keep Using Your Sketchbooks
Overview
“Finally, I want to give you some advice for maintaining a sketchbook habit. If you want to keep learning and get better, sometimes you will have to push yourself. However, it's important to be flexible and not too strict with your goals. Be realistic, try to integrate sketching into your daily life according to your possibilities, and enjoy it. ”
In this video lesson Sarah van Dongen addresses the topic: Keep Using Your Sketchbooks, which is part of the Domestika online course: Sketchbook Exercises for Artistic Growth. Discover tools and techniques for developing your creative skills, overcoming creative blocks, and unlocking your imagination in the pages of your sketchbook .
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, I will give some last tips for maintaining a sketchbook habit. So my first tip is to take your sketchbook with you wherever you go. Okay, so taking your sketchbook with you wherever you go means that maybe you don't have a very big sketchbook. and also maybe prepare a bag with some of your favorite materials so that you always have them with you. And I want you to know that even if you have your materials with you at all times, this probably doesn't mean that you will. Used them all the time. So, I always have my sketchbook. with me and I think 99% of the time I don't take i...”
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Course summary for: Sketchbook Exercises for Artistic Growth
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Category
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Areas
Drawing, Fine Arts, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration
Sarah van Dongen
A course by Sarah van Dongen
Sarah van Dongen is a Dutch illustrator based in Amsterdam who is passionate about telling stories. She began her studies in comparative literature but enrolled in the MA in Children’s Books Illustration in Cambridge, UK after realizing she wanted to pursue a more creative career.
Sarah’s illustration work can be found in children’s books, stationery, newspapers, and magazines across the globe. Her clients include Flow Magazine, Adobe, Tiny Owl Publishing, and Ragged Bears Publishing, among others. Sarah enjoys exploring themes like gardens, food, social interactions, mental health, and her childhood. She doesn’t shy away from subjects like insecurity, loneliness, and loss, she expresses them in her sketches to help make these feelings more comprehensible.
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