Drawing Is for Everyone: Simple Lessons to Make Your Creative Practice a Daily Habit - Explore Infinite Creative Possibilities in Graphite, Colored Pencil, and Ink (Art is for Everyone)

by Kateri Ewing

Discover your unique inner artist through 21 intuitive, process-based lessons in drawing with graphite pencil, colored pencil, and ink—then joyfully share your works of beauty with the world.

In Drawing Is for Everyone, artist Kateri Ewing—author of Look Closer, Draw Better and Watercolor Is for Everyone—guides you through a series of simple creative drawing projects using a soulful, meditative, and reflective process. Whether you’re drawing for the first time or are an experienced artist, you’ll discover and deepen your creative potential through these exercises, because everyone can make art. Each lesson includes two art pieces, one to keep, and then a smaller one, such as a postcard or mini painting, to share or send out into the world, to spread their color, creativity, and joy in new places.

With Drawing Is for Everyone, you can learn how to build a daily drawing practice and how to set intentions and create, even if you have just 10 minutes a day. The projects draw inspiration from poetry, music, literature, and the natural world, and invite experimentation with a variety of sources. You'll pursue your personal passions through accessible projects as you build your drawing skills, confidence, and creativity.

• ISBN13: 9780760370667
• Publish Date: 20 July 2021
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Quarry Books
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 128
• Language: English

Reviews

[annieb123]

Originally posted on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

Drawing Is for Everyone is an accessible all-levels tutorial and prompt guide for creative exploration and skill building by Kateri Ewing. Due out 20th July 2021 by Quarto on their Quarry imprint, it's 128 pages and will be available in paperback format. I love drawing and calligraphy. I am at what I refer to as the 'keen amateur' level. This book has inspired me to try to be more diligent in my practice and journaling.

This is an upbeat, accessible, and pleasantly encouraging book. The author has an appealing manner of teaching; always building up and reinforcing the idea that drawing really -is- for everyone. The book is laid out logically and progresses from mindfulness and drawing philosophy (*lots* of joy and positivity here), through guided tutorials and lessons for 7 full tutorial projects for each of 3 different media (graphite, colored pencil, and ink).

The really valuable takeaway for me was the author's gifted observational talent for building up facility and confidence in the student, training my ability to see what I am trying to represent and how to separate it from what my brain is interpreting and presenting to me as "reality".

This is a worthy addition to the artist's library and both beginners and more advanced students will find useful material here. I especially benefited from the up-building positivity and encouragement - I think she would be a wonderful teacher in a studio setting and a worthwhile workshop instructor.

Five stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.