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Living my ‘someday’ dream today instead. Here’s what changed: -I realized that drawing and painting are skills, not talents. And now when people speak about talent, all I hear is ‘hard working & persistent’ These two books changed my mind: Drawing on the Left Side of the Brain by Bett

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Marker Art is twice as fast as painting

I repeat the same process for almost everything I paint or draw, regardless of the medium. I’m a watercolor artist before anything else, but the markers go almost 2x as fast as paint and it’s always really fun and relaxing. First up is lightest colors, then we add form with midtones. I almost a

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Basically art school in a book!

Honestly, this book could replace the Natural Science Illustration program I completed last year, and save everyone A LOT of money! John Muir Laws is not related to his namesake, but carries the same principles of preservation and nature stewardship. If I had to recommend a single book to someone i

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If you DREAD drawing hands and feet!

Ah, the dreaded hands and feet. Artists will go their whole life avoiding them, and stumbling over them when they are faced with drawing. This book is JUST that, tons of practice breaking them down into simple shapes and simplified line drawings so that you can figure out the proportions and patter

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Cheaper than therapy!!

I am not kidding when I say that this book is cheaper than therapy. This book transformed how I saw myself, changed my life, and changed how I viewed a lot of my memories around creativity and art. The setup is this, you complete one chapter a week, and the exercises involve Morning Pages, Artist’s

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Sketchbook Ideas

I found this book AFTER I overpaid for an incredibly similar, perhaps identical class. Lol! But really, I love sketchbooks, and am definitely the person who repeats myself often in a sketchbook, without taking time to take risks and push myself. This book has tons of ideas to do just that, get you

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My First Assignment in Grad School

I am a few weeks into my MFA for Illustration and some of these assignments are like my dream come true. For this one, I was illustrating in the style of a cooking magazine, and the concept was to show the World’s Most Expensive French Fries. I’ll show how I did the lettering in a separate post, be

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Draw Animals! Plus learn how to sketch FAST

Gary Geraths and this book are both way too underrated! He is the court illustrator from some really famous trials, namely, the OJ Simpson case, and is an incredible artist. This book is a master class of drawing quickly, a valuable skill for drawing people, animals, urban sketching, etc. What I lo

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Level Up Your Figure Drawing

I like to think of this little book as the secret tool to level up your figure drawing. Basic anatomy labels are included to guide you, but it’s in a simplified way, rather than some of the laboriously scientific versions I have seen and used. Morpho does an amazing job keeping things simple, while

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LEVEL UP your drawing skills!

This sketchbook is great for anyone who maybe already has a lot of drawing/artistic skills, but wants to improve overall. Aristedes is an INCREDIBLE artist and has made a complicated task simple and approachable. This is the workbook version of the book where you actually draw in the pages, but I r

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Sketchbook Inspo WITHOUT Drawing

Collage is one of those things that is so fun and accessible, and you can create something you are really proud of without having to worry about drawing skills! I love collage in a sketchbook, as a way to get the juices flowing, but often run out of ideas of WHAT I want to make, and I end up repeat

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Everything I Drew for Chartpak

I’m creating some content for Chartpak AD Marker, and I love how it turned out! This content is for the early spring months, so I went with seasonal botanicals. These markers are totally new to me. They are a little different from the alcohol markers I’m used to using, but the cool thing is that I

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Best Art Books: Color v.3

If you are fascinated by color and want to dive deep into color theory, this book by Josef Albers is the one to get. His work on color theory set the stage for modern use and understanding of color. The tests in this book will blow your mind, and are incredibly fun and interesting to check out! Mak

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Best Art Books: Color v.2

Even after 3 color mixing classes, color is still one of those things that can get frustrating. I love this book that has straight up recipes, if you aren’t sure how to recreate a color mix, but also palette suggestions according to genre. There are charts for anything and everything that you could

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Color Mixing: START HERE

If you want to understand color and learn a practical approach to color mixing, start here! Edwards is so good at making complicated things simplified and approachable. I cannot recommend her color mixing exercises enough. She uses acrylic, but I have done most of these lessons in gouache or waterc

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How to start DRAWING! And get better FAST

If you want to learn how to draw, draw well, learn quickly, and not feel like a frustrated failure half the time, START HERE. This book is the most gentle way to learn that I have found in book form. There are tons of real student examples so that if yours doesn’t look like you thought it would, yo

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Sketchbook Ideas!

To me, looking in someone’s sketchbook is like looking through their drawers. It’s kind of an intimate experience, very vulnerable for the artist, and feels like I see things about the person that I normally wouldn’t get to. This book is just that, full color spreads of some of your favorite living

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How I Set up my Watercolor Palette

There is nothing better than a new palette! I like to squeeze a ton of paint out onto mine, at least 5mL per color, and then let it harden up a little bit before using it. With Holbein Watercolor, it will stay just a tiny bit sticky for ages, so I’m able to activate it using the smallest amount of

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Tropical Inspired Paintings

We went to Hawaii over the summer, and took our Christmas card photo there. I knew I wanted to illustrate the card, but wasn’t sure what to include. I’m definitely the type of person who needs a minute to process things, inspiration included. On the trip, I was really focused on being in the moment

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How Van Gogh learned to draw!

Good enough for Van Gogh! For real, this is the course that has taught some of the best artists in the world how to draw human forms. There are two versions of this book, and one is very inexpensive, and one includes a lot of copyrighted images and is super pricey! I want to say mine was about $10

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Emily Bourassa

Sketchbooks + Watercolor Painting + Drawing MFA Illustration ‘26