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Pick an outlet (BBC News, The Guardian etc) and, on a semi regular basis, produce an editorial illustration in response to an article. You can dictate the size and whether it's for print, screen or even if it's animated.

To make life easier, add rules that stop you from looking for 'the right' article. For example, you might go to the Guardian's homepage and pick from there - no scrolling. You might pick a journalist who has a regular column or feature and produce work for only that.

If you done this once a week until the submission deadline for final module, you'd have 54 illustrations in this collection alone.

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Select a subject - the daily content of your coffee table, every mug in your house, every house on your street, the living room of everyone you know... The subject isn't important so much as it gives you something to draw - regularly.

Use that as an opportunity to explore a material, tool or approach. Yes, it might look like you're drawing all of your family's coats - but what you're actually doing is studying crosshatching techniques or procreate brushes that look analogue or...

Once you've got a collection of drawings you can then create a zine, portfolio or book with them. Here you're practicing scanning or photographing work, digital fine tuning, typography, composition, editing, printing and making.

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Trying to do one drawing a day of a person you know? Gathering as friends and drawing each other, drawing family, drawing random people on the street, even making up people in your head to draw in a realist style?

Note from Dwayne:

this is a great instagram feed to draw from

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Inspired by Matt Stevens' 'Good Movies as Old Books' personal project

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Explore how using a limited toolkit can help define rather than hinder illustrative language.

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Contour Drawing and expressive mark making I particularly enjoyed, discovering what materials I could use to make marks and using materials I’ve never used before being playful and adventurous with it. Its made me more adventurous and helped me discover new ways of drawing.

Something id like to work on some more is drawing box’s I feel as tho I’ve got the hang of cylinders and I’m more gravitated towards drawing Cylinders and I think this has tought me a lot, however from now maybe I should start practicing drawing boxes more which is more uncomfortable for me, this is going to help me learn.

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Draw your dream house-

How big is the building?

What's the garden like- is there one?

What would your furniture look like?

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Isabella Ferreiro *⁠.･⁠｡๑⁠ on Instagram: "Dream house🏰When I was little I used to draw the things I wished for, now I’m in need of a home so here she is! She has a spiral staircase, butterfly garden room, table for tea with cutie chairs, my bedroom… and other cool stuff, some of it’s secret. Animation done with #procreate <3"

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36K likes, 35 comments - be3el on April 7, 2026: "Dream house🏰When I was little I used to draw the things I wished for, now I’m in need of a home so here she is! She has a spiral staircase, butterfly garden room, table for tea with cutie chairs, my bedroom… and other cool stuff, some of it’s secret. Animation done with #procreate <3". 

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Capture a local space that could be home to a mural. Illustrate the mural then use your digital skills to put it in situ.

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Draw the food you're enjoying, or design recipe pages if you enjoy cooking

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JUMBO 🖨️ on Instagram: "Few of these beauts left on our store for anyone looking for good illustrations and tasty recipes 😋✍️🐘📚 photos via the lovelies @antennebooks"

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jumbopress on May 1, 2026: "Few of these beauts left on our store for anyone looking for good illustrations and tasty recipes 😋✍️🐘📚 photos via the lovelies @antennebooks". 

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Doing character designs based on object in your surroundings

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Use the months to practice a technique or medium. In this image, Alex Brychta is demonstrating his use of watercolour and how he begins with 'neutral tint' to pre-shade before introducing colour.

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Create a creature and understand its proportions. Either come up with things from memory or use references of real life animals.

If picking an animal is hard, random animal generators exist. This is mainly to understand the anatomy of animals and create a beast you can either love or hate :)

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Develop your own plein air drawing / painting kit, a limited toolkit is a good thing - it defines language and encourages creative approach. You could fill sketchbooks in an effort to refine the perfect kit.

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Create a world, an original planet or dimension or anything and fill it up with key locations, countries, cities, and people.

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Gig posters. Album covers. Merch. It doesn't matter. Pluck a stupid band name out of the ether (e.g. Caldew Squirrel Initiative) and give them an identity.

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One project I want to do over the summer is create a comic book with some of the nightmares I’ve had called “a total nightmare” (in Italian “roba da incubi”)

I want to illustrate one nightmare I’ve had in the style of the photo of the comic I’ve attached

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Pick a spot (e.g. cafe, park bench, station, pub, gigs) to visit regularly and draw the things that change each time (people, posters, plants)

You could pick a busy spot to force yourself into quick drawings

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Chris Riddell on Instagram: "Drawing at Eve Christina’s show at the Grace with Ashlie Skye @evechristinaa @ashlie.skye"

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335 likes, 6 comments - chris_riddell on March 24, 2026: "Drawing at Eve Christina’s show at the Grace with Ashlie Skye @evechristinaa @ashlie.skye". 

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Getting live experience by opening up and advertising commissions. Teaches you to work from a very short term brief and lets you understand the needs of the customer.

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Memes are everywhere, either on your instagram for-you-page or spoken by the children at bus stops when they see the 67.

Doodle from them simply to fill the time or create beautiful pieces; all drawings/works don't have to be that serious - so have a but of whimsy

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I want to create a book with some funny two panel jokes, funny drawings

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Not all heroes wear capes. Not all comics are about heroes. Make comics or even comic panels from the mundane and every day.

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Maybe some work experience within illustration

Wedding illustration might be good as I’ll get to practice and understand the fundamentals of drawing people.

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Choose a subject to draw, set a time limit for observation, then draw. See what you can remember and how accurate it is

Go out with a friend/ group for extra fun

You could also try swapping drawings at time intervals with the other person.

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Natasha Newton on Instagram: "This sketchbook page is from a timed drawing session I filmed for my Patreon members the other day - I thought you might like to see it. I used gouache and each image took 10 minutes. I love working like this as it encourages me to work much more loosely! 🖤
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#sketchbookpage #sketchbook #sketchbookpainting #natashanewton #natashanewtonart #gouachepainting #gouacheart #landscapesketches #mutedpalette #timeddrawings #doitfortheprocess"

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1,127 likes, 21 comments - natashanewtonart on October 1, 2024: "This sketchbook page is from a timed drawing session I filmed for my Patreon members the other day - I thought you might like to see it. I used gouache and each image took 10 minutes. I love working like this as it encourages me to work much more loosely! 🖤
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#sketchbookpage #sketchbook #sketchbookpainting #natashanewton #natashanewtonart #gouachepainting #gouacheart #landscapesketches #mutedpalette #timeddrawings #doitfortheprocess". 

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Take even more inspiration from the work that inspires you, draw scenes and characters from media you enjoy :)

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I’d like to try character design and cartoon drawings. Taking inspiration from cartoons

Or music album covers maybe creating or illustrating them resurch into the subject of music and taking inspiration from them to make album covers

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Identify films with a strong aesthetic, pause key scenes (or at predetermined intervals) and draw the results.

Look into who the DP (director of photography) was and finding out what else they've done. For example, Roger Deakins is a genius!

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Grab some stills that catch your eye in films, try and emulate the aspects that you like eg colour, composition etc

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Nothing more to be said, hands are a pain - but they're good to learn from and practice.

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So the idea is essentially we find and/or take photos of random people and draw them in a way that inspired by an animal (still human though) and if wanted we could do a thing where people send it to a group one at a time every so often so that you can compare the differences in how we took the idea

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So the idea is essentially we find and/or take photos of random people and draw them in a way that inspired by an animal (still human though) and if wanted we could do a thing where people send it to a group one at a time every so often so that you can compare the differences in how we took the idea

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Capturing dreams upon waking - rule: not allowed to get out of bed until dreams are drawn

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Design a series of tattoos. Pretty awesome. Could have a theme, could not. Bonus points if you get the best one at the end.

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Going back to an A6 daily doodle dump in favourite pen

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Going back to an A6 daily doodle dump in favourite pen

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Creating a character trading card from a film/ book/ TV series/ game/ original characters

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watch a movie and pause at a random point, draw what you see. change the style, genre or characters. experiment with materials

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Moisés Espino on Instagram: "[Eng] Working on a VERY fun project! A lot of work , LOT of fur and hours but I feel pretty with how he is turning out. although I still have to face a big challenge yet... Need to find a damn long pile fur/ bangs and its driving me crazy! Any idea about where could I find a proper one that matches his fur color?😋

[Esp] Aquí ando trabajando en un proyecto MUY divertido: un montonazo de trabajo, PELO por todas partes e interminables horas... Pero me siento bastante satisfecho con cómo va quedando. Aún con todo, todavía debo enfrentarme a terrible desafío... Encontrar un maldito flequillo ponerle en la cabeza!!! No encuentro nada adecuado y me estoy volviendo loco😋 ¿Alguna idea de dónde podría encontrar algo que me pueda valer y que vaya acorde al color de su pelo?

#fantasyart #Alf #retroart #artdolls #creatures"

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5,363 likes, 194 comments - goblinslabcreatures on April 17, 2026: "[Eng] Working on a VERY fun project! A lot of work , LOT of fur and hours but I feel pretty with how he is turning out. although I still have to face a big challenge yet... Need to find a damn long pile fur/ bangs and its driving me crazy! Any idea about where could I find a proper one that matches his fur color?😋

[Esp] Aquí ando trabajando en un proyecto MUY divertido: un montonazo de trabajo, PELO por todas partes e interminables horas... Pero me siento bastante satisfecho con cómo va quedando. Aún con todo, todavía debo enfrentarme a terrible desafío... Encontrar un maldito flequillo ponerle en la cabeza!!! No encuentro nada adecuado y me estoy volviendo loco😋 ¿Alguna idea de dónde podría encontrar algo que me pueda valer y que vaya acorde al color de su pelo?

#fantasyart #Alf #retroart #artdolls #creatures". 

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A series of drawings in response to something 

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A series of drawings in response to something 

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For example, Valentino Lasso's series on extinct animals

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Something reliable that you can continuously draw is yourself, explore different medium, techniques, angles etc but draw yourself everyday. This can vary from quick sketches to detailed outcomes.

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Drawing the whole thing rather than focusing on just one subject ( a person or object) in my sketchbook to challenge myself.

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Take one thing that happened daily/weekly and draw it, anything from the mundane to the exciting.

To make it more interesting, do it in different genres, like in a horror setting or fantasy

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drawing something each day that summarises what i did

document of movies i like, music i’ve listened to, museums i’ve visited, books i’ve read, friends i’ve hung out with

a big collection of how i see my life and what interests me, personal thoughts ive had that day, as a way to both make my summer feel more eventful and practice my ink work.

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Make a blot of ink/scribble and try to make a creature from it

(Idk if it would work for year 3 stuff but pretty fun and good at warming up creativity)

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Collect stickers/stamps and experiment using different techniques. Add photos?? Add leaves or flowers too??

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Luca Minotti on Instagram: "🇻🇳 VIETNAM TRAVEL JOURNAL (part 3) 🇻🇳
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#sketchbook #travelart #urbansketch #sketchbooktour #vietnam"

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14K likes, 107 comments - luca__minotti on May 4, 2026: "🇻🇳 VIETNAM TRAVEL JOURNAL (part 3) 🇻🇳
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Krysten with a “Y” | Scroll Saw Artist on Instagram: "#wildthing #scrollsawart"

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611 likes, 22 comments - krystens_kreations on April 23, 2026: "#wildthing #scrollsawart". 

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Creating an identification chart of flora and fauna

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Creating an identification chart of flora and fauna

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Pick a line from a song in your playlist and do an illustration that maybe integrates the words themselves.

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Lesley DeHaan on Instagram: "Loving all the animatronic in The Victorian Model Workshop in Ashby-de-la-Zouch. #animatronics #ashbydelazouch #stauntonharold #victorianmodelworkshop #pixie"

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180K likes, 516 comments - journeywithacamera on May 4, 2026: "Loving all the animatronic in The Victorian Model Workshop in Ashby-de-la-Zouch. #animatronics #ashbydelazouch #stauntonharold #victorianmodelworkshop #pixie". 

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Simple but a fun one. Can be about anything, any length so completely creative freedom.

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C.W. Roederer on Instagram: "UPDATE - SOLD!

Gonzo sketch from a few months ago I never posted. In the event The Muppet Show comes back, I’d love if they had Gonzo sport his flashy 90’s suits again instead of the same boring purple tux. Let the tasteless art student dress like a tasteless art student!

PS - $30 for whoever wants this. 5x7”, comes unframed.

#CharacterArt #Drawing #Sketch #Gonzo #Muppets"

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2,078 likes, 15 comments - cwroederer on March 29, 2026: "UPDATE - SOLD!

Gonzo sketch from a few months ago I never posted. In the event The Muppet Show comes back, I’d love if they had Gonzo sport his flashy 90’s suits again instead of the same boring purple tux. Let the tasteless art student dress like a tasteless art student!

PS - $30 for whoever wants this. 5x7”, comes unframed.

#CharacterArt #Drawing #Sketch #Gonzo #Muppets". 

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