Essential Question:
How do artists and designers play with a store ideas?
They use a sketchbook.
A sketchbook is a tool artists use to hold ideas for the work they will create.
Daily Sketch Prompts
Essential Question:
Where & how do we encounter images in our world?
How do artists work?
A Daily Sketch Prompt exercise will:
- Improve observation
- Tracks Personal growth
- Provides a collection of ideas.
Ways to prepare your sketchbook for daily sketch prompts.
- Turn to a page inside your sketchbook. Draw out spaces where you can insert your daily sketch prompt
- This image has a series of spaces to draw sketch prompts for the month of November. Eventually the artist will turn the page to create another series of spaces for November sketch prompts.
- The neutral value painted around each potential sketch prompt area is a wonderful way to consider the negative space on the page.
2. This sketch prompt layout has been created over a painted paper.
Creating images on a colored piece of paper provides fun challenges.
Should you keep the color, or find a way to change it?
What types of tools can you use to draw or color over painted papers?
This artist also created sketch prompts on other papers and taped them on to the page.