Sketchbook Challenge by Susan Yeates

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').