Daily Creativity: Sixty Exercises to Promote Creativity

Name: Daily Creativity: Sixty Exercises to Promote Creativity
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Make Creativity a Daily Habit with Sixty Short Exercises

Created byBebe Keith

Last updated 3/2022

English

What you'll learn

Develop a habit for daily creativity
Strengthen your drawing and observational skills
Learn to see things differently
Experiment with new techniques to find your style

Course content

3 sections • 64 lectures • 7h 18m total length

Welcome!1:38
Materials We Will be Using5:46
Taking it Further2:13

Day 1: Draw Trees from Imagination8:41
Day 2: Get Inspired by Cracks in the Road3:17
Day 3: Make a Viewfinder and Use it for Composition2:22
Day 4: Spoon Self Portrait7:41
Day 5: Ginko Leaf Outline - Drawing with Color8:06
Day 6: Draw ten 30-second Lizards7:19
Day 7: Place a Magazine Figure in an Outdoor Environment6:58
Day 8: Hand Lettering - Draw Your Name8:39
Day 9: Draw a Portrait with your Non-Dominant Hand7:38
Practice loosens up drawing by using your non-dominant hand to sketch a portrait from a reference photo in five minutes, resulting in a looser, imperfect yet creative look.
Day 10: Get Inspired by Crossword Puzzle Themes7:37
Get inspired by crossword puzzle themes by spending five minutes sketching illustrations for each theme, then color and share your interpretations to fuel daily creativity.
Day 11: Draw an Object from Life6:46
Draw a simple 3d object from life, not from a photo, and observe shadows, highlights, and straight and curved lines for a five-minute observational sketch.
Day 12: Make Flowers Using Watercolor Blogs2:19
Day 13: Crosshatching10:32
Explore cross hatching to render light and shadow on a white ping pong ball sitting on paper. Practice a five-minute exercise using multiple line directions to vary shading.
Day 14: Positive and Negative Space7:51
Day 15: TUTORIAL - Macrame Knot7:20
Learn the macrame basics by tying a single knot through a spine, using loop, over, behind, through, and tighten to create a twist.
Day 16: Get Inspired by a Scribble - Part 17:21
Draw a character from a random scribble in five minutes and discover how a simple mark can reveal a dinosaur or other imaginative figure, strengthening your creative perception.
Day 17: Get Inspired by a Scribble - Part 2, Change Perspective7:15
Day 18: Go Outside for a Landscape Sketch6:42
Go outside to sketch a landscape for five minutes, capturing nature near a ravine by the Mississippi River.
Day 19: Texture Rubbings8:45
Day 20: Scene from Yesterday (Drawn From Memory)6:43
Day 21: Scene from Today (Drawn While Looking at the Scene)7:26
Draw a scene in front of you for five minutes while looking at it, creating a simplified observational sketch and comparing it to a memory drawing.
Day 22: Ten 30-Second Poses7:13
Day 23: White Lines over Darker Watercolor Feather7:57
Day 24: Explore a New Material of your Choice2:08
Day 25: Get Outside for Some Urban Sketching6:19
Go outside to sketch an urban scene, focusing on buildings you see with your own eyes, for a quick five-minute outdoor sketching session.
Day 26: TUTORIAL - Draw a Face on a Rock4:47
Learn to draw a simple face on a rock with colored pencils, starting from a practice sketch, selecting a suitable rock, and finishing with color.
Day 27: Draw a Fork from Different Perspectives7:35
Day 28: Invent a Font - Make one Letter Different Ways7:08
Invent fonts by drawing the first letter of your name in many styles, then apply your favorite variant to a word with embellishments.
Day 29: Play or Listen to Some Music7:20
Day 30: Get Inspired by your Shadow6:38
Day 31: Make Someone's Day3:09
Day 32: Draw a Portrait Upside Down7:30
Day 33: Draw Your Dream Studio8:25
Draw a map of your imaginary ideal art studio, detailing layout, tables, storage, and a photo studio to support teaching classes, creative photography, and wide-ranging art activities.
Day 34: Make-A-Word Game - Part 17:23
Day 35: Make-a-Word Game - Part 2, Draw Your Results6:52
Combine two words from yesterday's list to create a single imagined image, then draw and color it within five minutes, using pulchritudinous as inspiration.
Day 36: TUTORIAL - Fold a Paper Toy7:29
Day 37: Watercolor Play Part 1 - Create Circles with Multiple Colors7:58
Day 38: Watercolor Play Part 2 - Do Doodles!8:12
Fill watercolor circles with patterns and doodles on top, using pencils, gel pens, and Posca markers to explore lines, dots, swirls, and shapes.
Day 39: Blind Drawings of Ten Chairs8:46
Practice blind contour drawing of ten chairs with thirty seconds per chair to strengthen hand-eye coordination by looking at the chair, not the paper, in five minutes.
Day 40: Free Draw6:29
Day 41: Write a Haiku7:14
Day 42: Play Around with Editing Features7:29
Daily creativity exercise: take a photo, edit with cropping, drawing, text, and color adjustments to craft a playful image that explores new editing features.
Day 43: Draw a Truck and Load the Truck7:45
Draw a cute truck, load its back with real items, spend five minutes, and snap a photo.
Day 44: Traditional Collage7:28
Day 45: TUTORIAL -Origami Crane9:56
Day 46: Draw Some Textures7:04
Day 47: Collage Birds - Part 18:16
Day 48: Collage Birds - Part 27:28
Day 49: TUTORIAL - Make an Aluminum Star9:44
Day 50: Think of 25 Things and Draw Them6:41
Day 51: Continuous Line Drawing7:54
Day 52: Sketch People that are Moving Around1:48
Day 53: Get Inspired by a Fortune Cookie8:20
Tap into everyday inspiration from fortune cookies with five-minute drawing prompts that emphasize imagination over knowledge, playful textures, and rapid sketch practice to boost daily creativity.
Day 54: Collage Your Face7:11
Day 55: Make a Creative List of Clothespin Uses7:40
Create a five-minute creative list of clothespin uses beyond hanging clothes. Explore playful ideas, from thumb exercises to making a tiny doll, and illustrate one concept if you like.
Day 56: Puppet Theater9:17
Day 57: Hand Lettering - Draw the Phrase "Be Kind"10:08
Day 58: Draw an Accurate Eye8:48
Day 59: Make a Nature Mandala6:17
Day 60: Write a Note to Yourself - Art or Life Goals2:50

Requirements

There are no prerequisites for this course. All ages and abilities are welcome!

Description

Welcome to Daily Creativity! I’m Bebe Keith and I love to play. Here are sixty (YES, 60!!) fun daily activities that will get your creative juices flowing! Each activity takes only five minutes to do (plus a little more to watch the video and gather supplies, but still not long!), but I encourage you to spend more time if you are inspired.

The creative exercises will help you see things differently, improve your drawing and observational skills and serve as a creative warm-up for your day. You will gain confidence, try new things, make mistakes, explore, develop your voice and search for your style.

Some activities are more instructional, but most are creative thinking and exploring activities that you and I both do. Feel free to spend as long as you like on the activities. This is for you. Do what feels right.

This course is good for all ages and abilities. Invite the whole family to join you! I encourage you to do one activity a day for sixty days. This is roughly the average time it takes to develop a new habit. To encourage this, I recommend doing the exercise at the same time every day if possible.

Five minutes isn’t much time, but you will find that it’s a great jumping off point to take it further if you desire. You could spend much more than that on every activity and I hope you will have days that allow the extra time to work further.

I’ve provided a resource list that you will download. Please print it out and put it somewhere visible. It tells what the activity is for each day and what supplies you will need. There is a video telling more about the basic supplies you can use.

When you finish this course, you can go through it again with different subjects, making it an ongoing resource for creativity. If you struggle to think of subjects, just google “art prompt lists” and then you’ll be all set to take the course again – with the prompts providing a twist!

Thanks so much. Now let’s start having some fun!

Bebe

Who this course is for:

This course is suitable for all ages and abilities. We are all creative.

Daily Creativity: Sixty Exercises to Promote Creativity

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Course content

Introduction3 lectures • 10min

Daily Creativity Exercises60 lectures • 7hr 6min

Thank You!1 lecture • 3min

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