I have a super fun goody giveaway to keep your creativity cookin' throughout this year!

This Craftside goody giveaway includes:
The new books:
Playing With Sketches: 50 Creative Exercises for Designers and Artists by Whitney Sherman and Illustration School: Let's Draw Magical Color by Sachiko Umoto
To keep track of all that is going on in your life:
A Shoegasm 2014 Wall Calendar and A London Underground Poster Desk Diary 2014
A pack of our new Inspire Notecards Artwork by Sarah Ahearn Bellemare
And what is the perfect complement for illustrating and sketching?
Why, a fabulous new set of 36 BIC Fine Point Permanent Markers.
Leave a comment in to day's post by March 8th.
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It's not just about the fun-packed giveaway today. I also have a fun, creative exercise called Entopic Graphomania from Playing With Sketches: 50 Creative Exercises for Designers and Artists to share with you.

Click on these pages from Playing With Sketches: 50 Creative Exercises for Designers and Artists to enlarge and read all about this connect the letter technique. I had such a great time with it.


More about the Rockport book:

Playing With Sketches: 50 Creative Exercises for Designers and Artists
by Whitney Sherman
Drawing is the backbone of art and design; with all of the tantalizing wonders of the digital world, the best designers, illustrators and artists know that it’s good to step back occasionally and hit the refresh button on your hand and mind.
Playing With Sketches is a hands-on, fun approach to exploring drawing principles. Beginning with an introduction to the philosophy of learning through the process of play, this book brings you through a series of basic warm-up exercises that can be combined with later projects.
Then you’ll move quickly on to more challenging and engaging exercises, including word games, dimensional shapes, and inventive sketchbooks and letterforms, eventually creating a “toolkit” of ideas and skills developed through the process of play.
This book features creative, adaptable ideas, and numerous examples of designers and artists responses to each exercise, giving you a peek into their way of thinking and seeing.
With over 25 contributors, from high-profile designers, illustrators and artists to talented graduate students, you see work that will walk you step-by-step through a process or inspire by example. The book provides meaningful outcomes for your practice, including building an image archive, being exposed to new ways to use media and tools, inspiring you to break the rules, to collaborate, and much more!
Award-winning illustrator Whitney Sherman was trained as a photographer, held positions as an advertising art director, publications designer, and VP/Creative Director before focusing on illustration as proprietor of Whitney Sherman Illustration. Sherman has taught both graphic design and illustration, and was undergraduate Chair of Illustration for ten years before becoming Director of the MFA in Illustration Practice program at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore. In addition, she is Co-Director of Dolphin Press & Print @ MICA, and owner of Pbody Dsign which produces limited edition illustrated housewares. She is nationally represented by Gerald & Cullen Rapp, Inc., New York.
This looks like a ton of fun! Thanks for offering it!
Posted by: Valerie V | February 28, 2014 at 12:47 PM
That's a lot of fun stuff!! I'm in!
Posted by: Bonney | February 28, 2014 at 02:17 PM
Thanks for a chance at another great giveaway.
Posted by: Nancy | February 28, 2014 at 05:22 PM
Thanks for offering the great give away.
Posted by: Gilda | February 28, 2014 at 06:15 PM
Thanks for the awesome giveaway. Love the blog.
Posted by: VBLora | March 01, 2014 at 04:06 AM
Awesome giveaway!! Like everyone else, I neeeeeeed this! :)
Posted by: Shelley | March 01, 2014 at 05:39 AM
Playing with sketches help your imagination flow. Sketching is like gymnastics for the brain.
Posted by: Marie | March 02, 2014 at 07:18 AM
These neato items are super duper! The art journal books would a treasured addition to my creative stock. Thanks for the chance to make them mine.
Posted by: Angela | March 02, 2014 at 09:48 AM
What a wonderful giveaway - thanks.
Posted by: Julie (O-kami) | March 02, 2014 at 10:59 AM
Fun Giveaway! I especially like the Playing with Sketches. Good luck to all.
Posted by: Joel Sutton | March 02, 2014 at 01:33 PM