#CBDrawaDay

if you know me... you know i am a FAN of a daily art practice.

[some of the one's i've done? look up and down , day-to-day - where i drew things left around on a table/desk every day, or the one that started it all - drawing a day - where i drew with a thread color 5 days a week for 52 weeks...

so when CreativeBug asked if i wanted to do a Draw a Day challenge for them - uh YEAH. 

when they asked what i wanted to do, i immediately thought about this thing i'd been re-visiting in my own sketchbooks - shadow drawing. i thought it would make a really good contrast with the drawing challenges that came before mine.

first was lisa congdon's - where you draw things from your imagination - in a stylized line drawing way. then heather ross and molly hatch talked about drawing things from life. and then pam garrison showed people how to draw from imagination again - in a different stylized way and started inserting color too [yay color].

in shadow tracing you don't really have to know how to draw. you find an object whose shadow interests you and you hold it above your paper with an overhead light or some bright sun and you trace it. if you want to, you can insert areas of observational drawing, but you don't have to. shadow tracing allows you to play with materials [because you aren't so focused on drawing something correctly.] it allows you to play with media [because why not?]. it allows you to play with composition and layering [because it's so easy to do so when you are simply tracing a shadow]. 

it's something i've been doing again and again in my sketchbook lately because it's so freeing. it's fun and liberating and fast. so... if you want to come play with me EVERY DAY [but hey - you don't have to do it daily. or yeah it's already may 3rd, but you can catch up !] then hop on over to CreativeBug. 

if you aren't already a subscriber - it's $4.95 a month ! and you'll have access to 700+ classes. and you can SAVE classes [1 a month] forever [meaning even if you give up your subscription you can still watch them]. they are also having a mother's day sale  - $25 for a whole year.... 

if you do join in - upload your drawings to instagram and tag them with #cbdrawaday and tag me too ! @lisasolomon so i'm sure to see them.

i hope to see some shadow drawings of yours !