The Sketchbook to Style BOOK is Here!
Discover Your Artistic Style in Your Sketchbook!
Hi!
A bunch of y’all have already ordered my new book and I am so thrilled to hear that you’re already taking a crack at the drawing assignments and enjoying getting started!
If you haven’t heard the news: my popular premium online course, Sketchbook to Style, taken by over 500 students, is now available in book format! I’ve been talking about making this course into a book for two years, and am so excited it’s finally here!
Discover your artistic style in your sketchbook!
If you don’t know what Sketchbook to Style is, here’s the low-down:
Sketchbook to Style is a step-by-step course designed to guide you through the journey of starting a sketchbook practice to discover your unique artistic style. Through 10 chapters filled with my own journey, drawing tips, and 50+ drawing assignments, this book walks you through exactly how to use your sketchbook to unleash your inner artist.
Why Make a Course into a Book?
This online course has been a cornerstone of my work under Might Could since 2017. It’s gone through many refinements and revisions to be the fine-tuned course it is today and is the class I got the most glowing reviews and the most active participation.
Am I leaving a bunch of money lying on the table by now offering this content as a book instead of a big, fancy, online course? Yeah, I’m sure I am. But I’ve learned a lot of important lessons over the past 2 years and one of them is that I need to follow my heart and my heart just isn’t in online courses anymore, y’all. Never say never I guess, but my gut is pulling me more and more towards books.
Books are what I love to learn from best and books are what I love to make most! Online courses make more money, but books are more aligned with my interests, skills, and passions.
But while it feels good to step away from making videos, I felt sad to leave behind all that quality content that I worked so hard on, that I’m proud of, and that students have loved so much over the years. So I thought… why not make my courses into books? It’s good for me (because I love making books) and it’s good for you (because you can pay $17 instead of $297!)
So here I am again, stickin’ to my mantra (I might could do that!) and givin’ it a go. If this project goes well, who knows, maybe I’ll make my other classes into books too (I’m lookin’ at you, Art School Boot Camp!)
Why Is This Book Different?
There are countless how-to-draw books and classes. But this book is different.
What I’m teaching here goes much deeper than perspective, anatomy, and shading.
If those other how-to books are like learning to play technically correct, traditional, classical music—this book is like learning to play jazz. It’s about your individual interpretation of the world, self-expression, improvisation, and above all, style.
But I don’t want to teach you my style, I want to teach you to find your style.
Why Sketchbooks?
Sketchbooks allow you to tap into your instincts, drop your self-doubt, and inject a sense of play into the act of drawing. A sketchbook pulls us away from trying to perfectly represent reality in our drawings, and instead pushes us to express our own unique interpretation of life.
That’s making art, y’all, and once you experience it, you’ll never experience drawing the same again.
Are you an StS Alumni?
If you previously enrolled in the online course version of Sketchbook to Style, I would like to offer this book as an ebook to you free of charge. This course became what it is today because of you and I can’t thank you enough! Seeing your art evolve and seeing these drawing assignments lead you to a more and more solid style over the years is so, so satisfying and lovely and keeps me going, y’all. Thank you for drawing with me!
To get your free ebook as an alumni, please email me (or just reply to this post!) with:
the email address you enrolled with
your full name
and whether you prefer an .epub (for ipad and Kindle) or PDF (for computer)
Then I’ll email you back the ebook!
Share Your Art With Us!
And lastly, if you get the book and begin going through the drawing assignments, we’d love to see your work over in the Chat! Can’t wait to see where your sketchbook leads you!
Thanks for reading, and I’ll be back next week with a big We Are Fungi picture book update!
<3,
Christine
P.S. For some inexplicable reason, Amazon is listing the book right now as 25% off! I don’t know why and I don’t know when they’ll change it back, so hop on that!
My copy arrived yesterday! Really great to see this content so widely available! Jumping in now...