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Boost Your Creativity | 30 Sketchbook Exercises to Activate Your Imagination

Unlock creativity with Skillshare! Learn acrylic painting, AI writing, graphic design, and photography.

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About Boost Your Creativity | 30 Sketchbook Exercises to Activate Your Imagination

Introduction

Lesson 1: Scribble

Lesson 2: Collage

Lesson 3: Drip Drawings

Lesson 4: Rearranged Still Life

Lesson 5: Reverse Drawing

Lesson 6: Overlapping Quick Sketches

Lesson 7: Unlikely Still Life

Lesson 8: Collage Portrait

Lesson 9: Forest With Straight Lines

Lesson 10: Self Portrait

Lesson 11: Melting Still Life

Lesson 12: Grocery List

Lesson 13 : Bubble Letter Doodles

Lesson 14: View Out The Window

Lesson 15: Patterns

Lesson 16: Music-Inspired Doodles

Lesson 17: Mixed Image

Lesson 18: Collage & Draw

Lesson 19: Underground World

Lesson 20: Geometric Animals

Lesson 21: Drawing Rocks

Lesson 22: Undiscovered Sea Creature

Lesson 23: Animal With Human Clothing

Lesson 24: Literary Prompt

Lesson 25: Abstraction

Lesson 26: Cloud Images

Lesson 27: Inner Critic

Lesson 28: Written Word

Lesson 29: Playing With Color

Lesson 30: Happy Place

Closing Thoughts

What You Will Learn?

  • Everyone has the ability to be creative. Unlock your imagination's potential!.
  • In this video series, artist Paul Richmond offers 30 sketchbook exercises that will get your imagination activated and help spark new, creative ideas. Each lesson is approximately 10 minutes long, and is designed to enhance your creative thinking and art-making skills. .
  • As artists, we rely on creativity to keep our work moving forward. There are many obstacles to creative thinking that we face in the adult world - judgment, criticism, fear of failure, etc.  Paul's gentle, lighthearted approach will help you reconnect with your inner child whose imagination is limitless!.
  • Paul has been drawing and painting his whole life, and his artwork has been displayed and collected around the globe. He has been teaching students to be creative for over twenty years. In this course, he will share some of the most effective techniques he has discovered for training and strengthening one's creative thinking skills..
  • Materials.
  • You are welcome to work with any materials you'd like, but here's a list of everything Paul will be using in this series:.
  • Lessons.
  • About the Instructor.
  • Paul Richmond is an internationally recognized visual artist and activist whose career has included exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the United States as well as publication in numerous art journals and anthologies. His work is collected by individuals around the globe. As an illustrator, has created over four hundred novel cover illustrations. He is a co-founder of the You Will Rise Project, an organization that empowers those who have experienced bullying to speak out creatively through art. .