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Mindful Drawing 101: Guided Prompts for Creative Self-Care

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

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About Mindful Drawing 101: Guided Prompts for Creative Self-Care

Introduction

Part 1 - What You’ll Need

Part 2 - Mindful Drawing 101

Part 3 - Drawing Exercise

Exercise 1 - Sight

Exercise 2 - Touch

Exercise 3 - Smell

Exercise 4 - Taste

Exercise 5 - Sound

Exercise 6 - Gratitude

Exercise 7 - Self Compassion

Part 4 - Final Thoughts

What You Will Learn?

  • Mindful Drawing combines the benefits of mindfulness with the practice of drawing through the foundations of presence, awareness, and non-judgment..
  • Do you wish you could feel calmer when life gets busy? Maybe you’ve been told to meditate, but you’ve found that it can be easy to lose focus or motivation.  On the other hand, maybe you want to create more art, but have trouble making something because your inner critic gets in the way. These two problems may seem different, but actually have more in common than you might think!  In this class, I’m going to share a fun and easy exercise for developing your mindfulness and your creativity. I call this practice Mindful Drawing. .
  • This class is for everyone who wants to relax and draw! It is meant to provide simple and useful guidance for starting or deepening your mindfulness practice. .
  • In this class, we’ll cover: .
  • This class also includes a downloadable template that you can use to follow along with the drawing prompts we will do in the class. .
  • As promised, here is the link to the Tangerine Meditation that I mentioned in the class. .
  • Here are also some of my favorite mindfulness and mindful drawing recommendations: .