Good afternoon.
Today I want to talk about the importance of drawing challenges, creator challenges, and, monthly challenges.
Inktober is coming. For those of you who don't know what that is. I'll put a link in the description.
It was created by an artist Jake Parker and in the whole month of October people gather their pens,
their inks and they create a drawing every single day.
It can be an individual stand alone drawing every day
or, it can be part of a whole where you create little tiny objects
onto one sheet every single day.
I think these drawing challenges are super important. I think everybody should be doing them. I think it's a great thing for accountability.
I'm gonna go through some of the pens I have.
Micron, Sakura.
In a number of colors.
Copic Ciao, refillable, they're lovely. Open a window (alcohol marker smell).
There's some pilot pens. Some of these four nibs for dip inks.
These are wings are Winsor & Newton. Great sample size if you just want to try it out.
Calligraphy pens, different chisel nibs. Some sharpies.
Stabilo, these break down in water so be careful.
Here are another set I have. Copic Multiliners, Graphix (Marabu) they're okay.
Faber-Castell, those work fine.
Yeah, a bunch of different sets. They all come in different size nibs. Some have plastic nibs and some have metal nibs.
Plumchester (ArtSnacks/ it's okay).
Here's your Gelly Roll (Sakura)
We have the Zig there's different types of brush pens. Kuretake makes a bunch of really good ones of those.
Wow this is getting really thick. So there's Zig (Kuretake) who has a drawing pen.
They have a millennium (Zig). Here's a Zebra (Disposable Brush Pen). That's at Jetpens or Amazon.
Some of these places are really good outlets to purchase some of these pens.
I'll put links for some of the places that I choose to get pens from (in description below).
I live in California. So, purchasing from Jetpens means I get it fairly quickly.
Here's Tombow. Those are lovely for calligraphy and hand lettering.
Artline Blox (Shachihata, it's just fun.
I don't know.
Who knows?
Mm-hmm. Okay. So those are some pens that you could use. You could do this whole
drawing challenge with one pen. You could do a different pen each *day.
I think if you want to try and learn a pen or get to know a whole set of pens you've never used before...
Let's say you're new to alcohol markers.
Buy a few. Try some different colors.
Every single day for one month...
20 minutes a day, 30 minutes a day, an hour a day if you're going for the gusto. Which I love.
You will know these pens inside and out after 30 days.
Don't forget a blender. You'll thank me.
Okay different types of paper... you can do this on drawing paper.
Strathmore makes a great high quality paper.
They also do a mixed-media (paper) which comes in a tone tan, and a gray in a blue, all colors.
Copic makes their own. It's a very smooth vellum. Easy for blending. You can get real fun with it.
This is put on by.... Who did I get this from? I have their pens too (Ooly).
You can buy this through a couple different places. A museum sells this. It's the White Black Kraft Graph
and as you can see, it's all the different things for trying.
I'm a fan of kraft paper as it stands.
You can do watercolor. There's no reason why you can't pen and ink on watercolor (paper)
And if later you want to go back over it with a wash you can do that. You've left that opportunity open.
The Sketchbook Project. You could sign up. They're in New York.
Purchase one of these little guys and fill it up all month long.
You could do any type of notebook.
I have a Leuchtturm (1917).
I've been doing the Sketchtember. Every day a couple sketches.
You can go small. This month I've also been participating in a one inch drawing challenge by John Vernon Lord.
Thank you John. One inch challenge is very tiny. I would recommend a magnifying glass.
But, if you don't want to be overwhelmed and if you only have ten minutes a day..
This is a great way to do a challenge.
It's a great way to do one you could fit it in almost anywhere.
When you're sitting in the car or waiting between errands and carpooling
and all the different things everybody seems to be doing.
Ok, let's talk about practice. The importance of practice if you want to hone your skill. Get better at your skill.
You have to practice. It needs to be daily. There is no other way to do this.
Drawing challenge forces that on you and the day's you don't feel like drawing...
That's where the word challenge comes in. If you're mad, if you're angry, if you're frustrated,
Art therapy is legitimate for a reason.
Pull out a piece of paper, draw something. Get it all out there on paper.
Drawing challenges build creative confidence. If you want to get better as an artist, you have to practice with this. practice
With this practice you will feel more comfortable.
Put it out there. Put it on Instagram do the hashtag inktober (#Inktober).
There's also daily prompts if you're feeling like you need an extra challenge on top of that.
Put #Inktober2018 with your hashtag.
And everybody is super supportive on the platform for creators.
We are out there to help each other, to encourage each other. I think it's phenomenal.
What you think you can contribute...
What can you contribute? What can you put out there into the world, to help to grow, to learn to inspire others?
This will push the limits of that daily,
and I think it's so so so important and I think everybody should try it if you even if you....
Hello there darling (cat meowed) even if
I think she wants to draw as well (cat meowed again)
even if you aren't said artist and it's just a hobby. You're a hobby enthusiast or you've never drawn before and
all you have is a Sharpie or a Bic pen or something really strange.
Just be careful with Bics. They don't do an even release of ink
and they smear. So be careful to start from one direction and go over to the next and you don't smear your stuff.
It is a just a great way to get into a hobby and then you look forward to it everyday and you start building
some of these skill sets. If you're terrible at drawing people spend the whole month learning how to draw people and having more portraiture.
Whatever you think you need to work on... different age groups, different lifestyles, different ethnicities, break it all down.
Try it all. Expand interests. Try doing animals.
Want to do something that makes an impact? How about animals that are on the critically endangered list?
There are so many different things you can do to
expand on your creativity,
to inspire others. You know.
But if you have a project already going and you're stuck in a rut use this challenge to get out of it.
To finish this project if there's inking involved do all your inking this whole month and get that project
Up and going and get it published. Get it done.
Drawing is a lifelong skill. It's something that you need to practice. It's learning a language. It's like learning an instrument.
You need to do it daily. You absolutely should even if you only have a couple minutes. Wake up, grab a sketchbook of any kind.
Just draw. Just doodle. Just create something.
I absolutely, encourage everyone to join in on Inktober. It starts October 1st.
I will put a link to the promps. If you want to know which pens I think are better than others...
$2 pick up a Micron (Sakura). Grab a .05 or a .03. Grab black start simple. Just go for it.
Depending on how big you go. You may only need one pen for the entire challenge. There's no reason why you cannot do this on printer paper.
Nobody says you can't. You don't have to spend an absolute fortune to make this a reality.
You don't.
And later if you want to go back over and you want to... let's say your colored pencil artist
and you want to add some colored pencils to it you can. And if you like the look a Pen and ink
with a sketch you can do that, too.
It's primarily an ink challenge, but there's no reason why you can't watercolor with that.
You can do acrylic with that. You can do any... you could put charcoal with your pen and ink. Really expand on the idea of
practice, of creativity, of building creators confidence, and throwing things out there into the world.
Another recommendation, pick up a little white ink too.
Just in case because you never know.
I hope everyone has a wonderful afternoon and a great weekend, thank you so much for listening.
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