Drawing Ideas & prompts for your sketchbook

When you’re feeling stuck for sketchbook drawing ideas, we take a look at how to fill a sketchbook in a way that inspires you and serves your drawing practice…

Once you’ve decided that you want to keep an art sketchbook and bought, made, and/or personalised your sketchbook, then you’re ready to start drawing in yours.

Sadly, this is all too often when we get that blank-page-blank-mind feeling, and we feel stuck to know how or where to start…

​We're all out of sketchbook drawing ideas to get going…

This is a perfectly normal way to feel.

​Often, we can just bite the bullet and get started somewhere, anywhere, with some inspiration that we’ve noted in our daily lives or some other drawing exercise we’re working on...

Helping you understand the concepts of light and shade in art and ideas for how to show them in your drawings.

The objective of this drawing lesson is to learn to work on the detail of your drawings...

And start making confident marks on your page to show how shadows and light help to depict the form in your drawings.

This is important if you want to give any sense of volume or depth to what you draw so that it does not appear just perfectly flat on your page.
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Shading (light/shade) is what makes a flat circle into a solid orange! 

Our objectives are:

• to understand that creativity, drawing and mindful connections with nature can lead to calm, balance, happiness, achievement, and a feeling of fulfilment.

• to understand the importance of ‘stopping’ and quiet ‘nothing’ time for mindfulness and creativity.

• to learn to experience nature fully and start noticing.

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• to use these mindful moments to start collecting your own nature moments to be the inspiration for your artwork.