Showing posts with label challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label challenge. Show all posts

Friday, December 14, 2012

3 Things Challenge

Have someone else pick three things for you to make an ATC card of. Then, figure out a way to put all three of them into the same card!

For instance, if someone picked these three things (and they did):
  1. Steampunk
  2. Einstein
  3. Fairies
I put together a card done with Einstein as a fairy dressed in Steampunk style. :)

He was hard to do, but he was also a ton of fun to make because he is so unexpected!

So, run out with your art supplies and ask someone to pick three random things to draw and see if you can combine them all into a single piece of art... Be sure to post it here so we can all enjoy your creativity, too!

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Sketchbook Challenge

The Sketchbook Challenge is from a great blog I found.  I loved the idea just from reading the title.  To encourage creativity every day through sketching is a great idea because with sketching, you're not worried about perfect and "styles," you're just worried about getting the concept of what you're sketching down on your paper.  You can come back to it later and finish it, if it really caught your fancy.

Even if you think you "can't draw," it gives you the freedom, like the image to the left, to just quickly do an outline of the important bits and then move along.  There's no wrong - just right!  :)  What a great way to remember how to play like you did when you were a LITTLE kid.  I remember making mud pies with grasses in them for my brothers.  The were NOT something to eat, but they certainly were in my imagination!  Our little twigs were the silverware of Royalty and our mud pies were served on only the finest leaves in all the land.  lol.

Even if it was only in our imagination, it was so much fun - until we stepped in the bee's nest and got stung all over. Then we looked like aliens because our Mom put dots of Mrs. Stewart's Bluing on every single sting.  We were *early early* versions of the Blue Man Group!  But it was pure play.  That's what sketching should be, too.