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Sketchbook Challenge by Susan Yeates offers 100 simple prompts to help you kickstart or develop a daily sketching habit. The prompts are thought provoking, and include both objective and subjective topics.
Sketchbook Challenge if full of exciting prompts suitable for beginners or more passionate sketchers. Through the challenges, Susan explains the principles of drawing with the aim of encouraging you to relax and get creative. To begin, Susan explains the reason why the book was created along with the benefits of developing a daily drawing habit. There is a short chapter on tools and materials followed by the author's reflections on mindset and creativity. Warm up exercises are included to help you kick start your creative brain - they'll also inspire you to think more broadly about the prompts given. Susan's own responses to the prompts are added as illustrations throughout the book to inspire your own. There are a huge range of prompts covering all kinds of subject matters, from objects (like leaves, clocks, buttons and jewellery) to more subjective ideas ('something that smells good' and 'items in your pocket').
160 page paperback. 222 x 222mm.
Susan Yeates is an artist, author, podcast host and TEDx speaker. She has written and self-published four books including Learning Linocut (2011), an Amazon no. 1 bestseller, and Learn to Earn from Printmaking An essential guide to creating and marketing a printmaking business (2016). Susan's first title for Search Press, Beginner's Guide to Linocut, was published in 2018.
Susan obtained a fine art, printmaking degree from Loughborough University and has been teaching art courses and workshops both in person and online since 2003. She also co-runs a pottery café in Woking, Surrey. Susan’s TEDx talk, Create your mandala universe collaborate for a beautiful life, was broadcast in 2020.
Susan runs an annual 30-day sketching challenge every January through her website susanyeates.co.uk and on Instagram (@learninglinocut) and Facebook, encouraging people to develop a daily sketching habit.
Susan lives and works in Woking in Surrey, UK, and continues to teach printmaking and sketching through online courses. Susan is passionate about inspiring others to get creative and also hosts a podcast called Creativity Talks.
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