Starting with the basics, you’ll learn how to look at lines, circles and simple shapes with new eyes. Lisa guides you through drawing and image-making exercises that utilize three mediums: pen, collage and paint. Working in a large sketchbook, you’ll begin this journey by learning how to keep your approach loose and fresh. 

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Everyone has a color palette they tend to lean toward. In this class, Lisa shows how to build upon your favorite palettes, investigating color relationships and proportions in order to achieve optimal composition and flow. To put this lesson into practice, you’ll create a collage in your sketchbook with these principles in mind. 

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Leave the white pages of your sketchbook behind and dive into the printed pages of a vintage book. Working in a variety of mediums, Lisa shares her favorite “Messy Sketchbook” technique, transforming a printed page into a vibrant sketchbook spread. Plus you’ll learn how to respond to the content on the printed pages in order to create truly original artwork. 

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Sometimes you don’t need every crayon in the box – in this part, Lisa focuses on choosing a single color and working in a monochrome color palette. Not only is this exercise good practice for self editing, it also helps you better understand the various shades and hues that are possible within a single color. Using a variety of mediums and sketchbook spreads, you’ll unlock all of the possibilities of working in monochrome. 

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Sometimes leaving the studio to get some fresh air is the best way to spark inspiration. Take a walk with Lisa through downtown San Francisco and see what catches her eye. Sit alongside her on a park bench as she sketches the buildings around her, and then watch how she adds color and further develops her drawings when she heads back into the studio. 

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Now that you’ve created oodles of artwork in our Creative Boot Camp, you’ll need a way to put the pieces together to share with the world. Learn how to make an accordion book structure to feature as much or as little of your original artwork as you like. Or you can make a blank accordion book to use as an alternative style sketchbook and start the creative process all over again! 

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