exercise #1: How to "Actually" Doodle
Doodling increases your visual literacy and helps you process ideas, even when you are not trying! Experiment with different materials, and draw whatever comes to mind. Doodling is extremely helpful in strengthening memory! Recruit others in collaboration to develop a doodle to add onto.
In Action: Doodling increases M E M O R Y
exercise #2: One Day, One Theme
Choose one theme or one kind of object, and only draw that thing during the course of a day.
You can vary your approach to this by choosing an animate or inanimate object, a color, a size of something, things that are scary or make you laugh, or things that start with a specific letter.
You can also use synonyms, such as things that move you emotionally versus things that literally move you, like modes of transportation. The more thoughtful you can be, the more you exercise your concept-building abilities as well as you hand skills.
In Action: One Day = One Theme
exercise #3: Word Stacks
Take 25 blank index cards and cut them into thirds. On the first stack, print an adjective on each card, on the next stack, print a noun, and on the third stack print a verb on each card. Shuffle each stack separately, then draw one card from each pile and put them next to each other, forming a phrase such as Devilish/Book/Laughing.
Draw it.
In Action: Word Stacks
Playing with Sketches > Whitney Sherman is an award-winning illustrator and director of the MFA in Illustration Practice at Maryland Institute College of Art
Assignment BOOK from Pratt Institute
Assignment BOOK from Pratt Institute
