✏️ Last week we drew mushrooms! Lots of fun and wildly abstract. Can’t wait to try it again sometime or maybe make a pattern from the results 💛✏️
✏️What are we drawing?
This week we are drawing…
FOOD 🥕 Mushrooms included and oh so much more…
🍒 This awesome theme suggested by an amazing VIP member. Fruits, vegetables, fish (for some reason), have been staples of still life drawing for ages and are a great way to practice drawing form and color. And sketching/painting food is a great way to get ideas flowing and thinking about how important food in children's books. I still remember how SCRUMPTIOUS the carrots looked in Peter Rabbit when I read it as a child! Bring your paints and colored drawing supplies and get ready for sketching some food. See you there 💛🍄
✏️Drawing references?
We’ll be referencing from…
The Great British Bake-Off, stock photo sites and a variety of other goodie places! Can you tell I have a bake-off obsession?
Make sure to bring along your art supplies! We’ll be drawing lot of color today so so bring your colorful supplies: paints, watercolor pencils, wax crayons, etc!~
I’ll add the references and reference sources to the Discord sketch-along channel so you can continue practicing before and after our meetup. If you haven’t joined the now bustling TIAC Discord group, check out our VIP chat for the link 💛
✏️When and what time?
We’ll all be chatting and sketching today: June 19th, 2025!
Our weekly sketch-alongs take place at 7pm UK time and 2pm EST.Click here to access a time zone converter to convert the time to your time zone.
Can’t make it? No worries! Our sketch-alongs are uploaded to The Illustrator’s Art Club VIP substack archive for you to view at your leisure👍
It’s an hour-long sketching party and part-casual-hangout/part-fun-drawing tutorial.
We’ll be chatting about:
Why food is so important in children’s books. 👍
How to draw food in the most delectable way possible.
Which food is THE BEST?? (My partner makes the BEST brownies ever so I’m standing by that!)
And whatever else we can fit in an hour!
I drew this Halloween Pumpkin Empanada years ago and now it haunts my Procreate files! Marissa Valdez (2022).
✏️ And where are we drawing??
On Zoom! Here’s the link:
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