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 I've just posted about this on my journal but as Goss pointed out, folk here may also be interested in joining in,  and might miss it there so...

How it works is you register 
via this link, and they send you an email every day for a month with two challenges to try, with videos by a variety of different artists. There's no pressure, no targets, you can do as much or little as you want. The joining up email also has a link to a how to make your own sketchbook, which was also something I'd been thinking about trying for a while.

It does seem to be a lot of fun so far, and we're only on day 3 so you haven't missed a lot if you do want to catch up. 
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These mostly have minimal promotional content other than mentioning their own Patreon if they have one. Some of the artists haven't uploaded as much in 2020, which is understandable. Some have uploaded more.

Landscapes and Cityscapes:
Dragonfly Spirit Studio
- excellent watercolour tutorials and teaching vids, largely about landscapes, with some still life or flower paintings. They always make me want to try what Lynne's demonstrated.

Liron Yanconsky - an Israeli watercolorist who teaches or demos some aspect of technique in each of his vids (landscapes and cityscapes, mostly). He also does 'Painting Masters' vids where he presents a relatively well-known watercolour artist and tours their work, discussing his favourite paintings. 

Portraits and Figures:
Jenny Dolfen - gorgeous fantasy and fanart watercolours e.g. of Silmarillion characters. She gives tips about her painting techniques and her use of gold leaf. 

Arleebean - interestingly loose, expressionistic watercolour and gouache portaits with explanations about her process and artistic decisions. Grinds her own paints sometimes, and tries some different handmade paints. Sometimes does specific tutorials.

Jane Beata - interesting process vids of watercolour portraits (in the past, broader subjects e.g. florals, objects). More detail is on her Patreon (which is ridiculously cheap - she undervalues herself), but the shorter YouTube vids are interesting and useful. 

Jess Karp - see her 100 things challenges (heads, hands, eyes etc.) and her 'fruitheads' series and sketchbook tours. Very talented and cheerfully informative.

Myriam Tillson - a unique artist who uses gouache, acrylics and watercolours to paint surrealistic figures and portraits. I love her and she's extremely talented but a warning for frequent dark and disturbing images and body horror, e.g. hollow people, trees and snakes coming out of people, headless people, etc. - so she's not for everyone. She's a lovely person and she explains her process and ideas well, more so on her Patreon, but the shorter vids are also good. Her Inktober series are amazing - the 2019 vids are on her channel and for a glimpse of the 2017 and 2018 Inktober works see her shop here.

Animals and Technical Aspects of Watercolour Paints
In Liquid Color - Denise Sodan. Denise does detailed swatching and discussion of different watercolour brands and pigments, and specialises in painting animals. See her' Colour Spotlight' and 'Brand by Brand' series. 

Florals and abstract Doodles
Creationsceecee - relaxing small, semi-abstract pics she calls doodles, with soft watercolours and then fine drawings (of florals or shapes) superimposed, and some use of gold and silver paint. Great ideas for cards and bookmarks. 

Nianiani - Mostly florals, some food, landscapes etc. Good and very basic tutorials about painting different types of flowers and leaves with watercolours.


Digital Art
I recently found this digital drawing tutorial useful, to cut down shakiness in drawing lineart on a tablet or screen. I don't do much digital art these days but I like clean lineart to print off and use to start painting. The other take-away lessons recently from digital art tutorial vids have been to use some of the "smoothing" function in Photoshop, and to use layers, with initial rougher drawing(s) superimposed by the final lineart, also not to be afraid to erase a lot to get to the final version.

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Art Rec Challenge

There's still a lot going on in the world, so here's a low-pressure challenge that's about what you've been looking at and enjoying over the past few months, rather than a drawing challenge.

What's this challenge about?

Either in a separate post or in the comments here, give us some recs or resources you've explored and tell us why you enjoyed them. Things like favorite artists on Youtube or elsewhere who've inspired you, or who post interesting challenges or tutorials, sites with resources for drawing or painting, sites or posts with technical info, inspiration or art ideas. Add a link to any site or post you're recommending.

Ideally, link to sites or posts that are freely available and don't require registration or a fee. e.g. Instagram won't work for people unless they have an account, and Skillshare's great but you have to register and pay, so those two aren't as suitable. But if you really want to recc a paid site, let us know the usual fee and why you think it's useful and good value.


This challenge will run through to mid February.

Happy reccing, everyone! :)

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