💎 If you’re going to make something, when ever possible, make it reusable. - Adam Ming
As part of the “🎟 Backstage pass” (Paid subscription), I’ve been giving away a drawing prompt a day in various forms. I have been doing this by sending out 7 prompts in an email every week.
As I near 1 year of writing this newsletter, I’m thinking about how to make the energy I spend on this thing more permanent. I mean if I keep sending 1 prompt a day, that might be 14000 daily prompts. Maybe you don’t need that many. Maybe you need 100.
And that will leave us 13900 days for us to do something else.
🏁 Get 100 Days of drawing icons.
Backstage pass subscriptions keeps this thing going.
And it gets you a bunch of extras. One of the extras is: “100 Days of drawing icons”
Thinking of illustration as drawing icons and arranging them into a scene has been one of the breakthrough ideas for me that has helped me level up my practice rapidly. One of the ways I have done that is by repeatedly drawing a series of 100 icons. I’ll be sharing this list with 🎟backstage pass holders and drawing each icon in front of you, while sharing how I think about drawing these icons.
15 weeks of daily prompts (sent weekly) - These list of icons are designed to build your drawing vocabulary
Time lapse video demos of my drawings of each prompt
Notes on how I think about drawing each specific icon - with tips for seeing and representing a thing.
I’ll also share the references I use and my process for preparing for each illustration
I’ll answer specific questions about drawing each icon in the comments.
Unlike the tedious drills you might get in a traditional drawing class,
Drawing icons are an extremely low stakes way of learning to draw that gives you satisfaction and a sense of progress. Learning to draw these 100 icons, will go a long way in building your confidence in drawing.
You CAN do this.
Ps: I’ll be creating a section in the Newsletter called drawing icons, so if that’s all you want you can tick the appropriate box when subscribing.
Ps: You could also give it as a gift. Adam’s notes is the perfect accompaniment to any daily creative practice. Goes well with coffee too!