I’ve began a sketching neighborhood on Patreon!

Final week, I opened a brand new Sketching Journey Neighborhood on Patreon, creating a spot for us to share our on a regular basis sketching explorations. A beautiful group is already forming contained in the neighborhood.

Patreon was based in Could 2013 and is extensively utilized by artists, musicians, and different creators to work together instantly with their communities.

Due to everybody who has already joined – I’m loving studying all of your feedback within the chats and seeing a few of your current sketches!

Why a neighborhood?

For a while now, I’ve wished a spot the place I may extra simply share my on a regular basis sketches and ongoing experiments.

And a spot the place I may share concepts about

how I maintain myself motivated to sketch often and construct habits so sketching turns into easy,
how I experiment to be able to be impressed whereas sketching the identical themes again and again,
how I take into consideration my very own work and positively critique my sketches,
how I determine what areas to develop and what to do subsequent.

Through the years I’ve touched on these themes right here on my weblog, and consequently, it’s turn out to be a tremendous report of my artistic journey. However lately, I create greater than I’m in a position to publish, so I regarded for a option to share my sketching adventures extra instantly.

I’ve been having a lot enjoyable with my on a regular basis sketching currently, regularly mixing media and attempting new combos. I’m more and more taking dangers and attempting new issues. The extra experimental work wants a level of clarification and context that’s tough to offer within the format of a weblog.

So principally… I would like a better and extra interactive option to share my work!

Essential Be aware: Don’t fear – I’m nonetheless going to publish articles right here on the weblog and I’ll proceed to create free content material however I wish to go deeper – and a neighborhood is the best way to do this.

I’ve been requested loads about making a SketchingNow Combined Media on-line course, however my methods evolve so rapidly that it might be not possible for me to codify them into a scientific collection of movies. The magic of blended media comes from attempting new issues primarily based on conversations and concepts gleaned from others. So a neighborhood will enable us to experiment and discover new issues collectively!

Why Patreon?

I’ve chosen to host this new neighborhood on Patreon. It’s a well-liked membership platform utilized by many creatives. Patreon provides a straightforward month-to-month subscription, so you may be part of for so long as you need.

My hope is that it will likely be an ongoing place of inspiration for you as a result of I’ll be always sharing new concepts that I’m exploring in my very own work.

Be aware: A yearly subscription (with a reduction) will likely be accessible in just a few month’s time and if you’re a founding member, you’ll be the primary to listen to about this.

What is going to occur every month within the Sketching Journey Neighborhood?

Every month, you’ll have the ability to take part in an unique livestream on this new neighborhood (with a replay afterwards). Within the reside session, I provides you with a particular tour of my present sketchbook, explaining all of the work I’ve completed prior to now month. I’ll then speak concerning the ideas I’ve explored and the supplies used and I’ll redo one in all my sketches. You’ll additionally have the ability to ask me questions throughout this livestream and hang around with the neighborhood. The primary livestream happens later this week!

In every livestream I’ll announce a theme that I wish to discover in my very own work through the coming month – you would possibly like to do that as effectively. These month-to-month themes will discover a side of making artwork (resembling line, form, worth, and composition) fairly than a selected subject material. Having a extra conceptual theme for every month will make it simpler for us all to include them into our current sketching follow. They are going to be themes that we are able to work on with out going out of our option to discover topics.

Over time, the month-to-month themes will enable you to increase your inventive horizons, and the neighborhood will likely be your protected area to discover and share what you uncover alongside the best way.

The neighborhood facet of this new Patreon is one thing that I’m particularly trying ahead to. There will likely be a month-to-month chat thread to be able to share your individual work and talk about supplies. These chats are already energetic!

Sketching Journey Neighborhood will likely be a protected place to share our on a regular basis sketches (usually containing commonplace topics) with out the perfection stress of social media. A spot to encourage one another to seize extra moments from our life and to search out magnificence within the commonplace.

How this new neighborhood pertains to SketchingNow programs

This neighborhood completely enhances my SketchingNow programs (which is able to stay precisely as they’re). I’m completely loving internet hosting a Stay Model of Foundations on SketchingNow in the intervening time, and can proceed to organise group occasions for my programs.

This Sketching Journey Neighborhood is extra – for ongoing work and exploration.

SketchingNow programs are all about systematic studying and constructing expertise, whereas this new Sketching Journey Neighborhood on Patreon is all about inspiration and attempting new concepts.

My SketchingNow programs are the web equal of a reside workshop with me. I develop a cautious curriculum and function the instructor, explaining ideas in-depth, and in systematic order. I then share rigorously designed workout routines to be able to be taught the ideas and develop your expertise in a selected approach. An incredible neighborhood kinds inside my SketchingNow programs through the group occasions, with everybody doing the identical workout routines and constructing expertise collectively.

In contrast, this new Sketching Journey Neighborhood on Patreon will likely be like hanging out collectively in a restaurant. We’re having a cup of tea or espresso and speaking about artwork. As you flip by way of my sketchbook I’ll inform you all about what I used to be sketching, why I used sure media, which pages I actually like and which sketches weren’t so profitable. I’ll then take a look at your work and be impressed and get new concepts of issues to sketch and methods to sketch them! Our dialog will likely be wide-ranging, spontaneous and really motivating!