With Christmas around the corner, here is my Christmas and New Year gift guide for creatives:
📓 A beautiful and huge yearly wall planner for 2024 where we can record our daily sketching progress or a lovely creative desk calendar (example)
🧑🎨 Home for markers, so finally everything will be well-organized (example)
🎁 A gift card to your local (or online) art supply shop or your art gallery/museum shop
✍️ A sketchbook or a set of sketchbooks with great paper quality and in various sizes (from the tiny A6 for quick sketches on location to bigger formats like A4), (example)
📚 Books, books, books! On art history, design, artists, art, creativity, you name it (a couple of book title ideas you can check in this article on my blog)
✍️Pencil case (always handy!), (example)
👍🏼Desk tech organizer to keep that creative chaos a bit more tidy (example)
👨🎨 If you love drawing on an iPad, consider ProBundle from Paperlike. It is the original matte screen protector for creators that feels like you're using real paper when drawing with your Apple Pencil.
📔 A beautiful notebook for journaling/planning/sketching, it should be really beautiful and with nice texture, so you want to put your hands on it daily (example from Moleskine)
🎨 Marker set/new watercolours/quality coloured pencils/pastels, depending on which technique they prefer (I share my favourite marker sets here)
💳 Membership at Skillshare, Domestika or Masterclass, or any another creative platform where you can learn new great skills
🧑🎨An easel or a portable easel for plein airs
🧑🎨Big and adjustable table (so they can either stand or sit in front of it), (example)
💻 Online course on interior sketching/fashion drawing/Procreate, you name it
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Let this holiday season be filled with creativity and joy for you and yours!
Olga Sorokina
Sketch “The Christmas Martini“ Card with me, watch the replay from my live zoom session:
I welcome you to join my Xmas Drawing Challenge on my YouTube:
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