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Creative Sandbox Community Half-of-March challenge, day 8: strawberries. Which I took as a springboard to practice fruit! 😊 #creativesandboxchallenge #creativesandboxcommunity #marchsandboxchallenge #visualpractice #visualcommunication #visualnotes #newskill #newskills #learning #sketchnote #sketchnoting #graphicrecording #graphicrecorder #infodoodle #creativesandbox #creativesandboxway #doodle #doodles #doodleart #doodleartist #doodlesofinstagram #dailydoodle2018 #dailydoodle #dailycreative #dailyart #artistsofinstagram #artistsoninstagram #originalart #originalartwork #neuland #neulandmarkers

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Day 2 of The Half-of-March #creativesandboxcommunity #marchsandboxchallenge, hosted by @carla.la.la.olson. Today’s prompt: “roar.” Omigosh, it took me a long time to find a way to draw this that I could reproduce on the fly! I’ve decided that’s my goal for this challenge: to land on a way to draw whatever the concept is, quickly and without a visual reference, so that other people will have a chance of actually understanding the concept I’m trying to communicate. I’m trying to build my visual vocabulary here! The goal is not to become an illustrator, or an Artist, but to communicate ideas more effectively. To use images to enhance my visual notes. I now have a “formula” for drawing “roar” that works relatively well. Could it be better? Absolutely! But I’m not aiming for perfection in this challenge, merely for improvement. As an ex-boyfriend of mine used to say, better is better! Before I started this scribbley sheet, I had no idea how to draw “roar.” Now I have one formula that I can do without a visual reference. That is definitely better! Win! 😊 (And oh, how scary vulnerable it still makes me feel to share my practice sheets! 😜) #practice #doodle #doodles #doodlesofinstagram #originalart #suchasitis

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Okay, I’m gonna be brave and let myself be SUPER VULNERABLE here. Inside my #creativesandboxcommunity we started our first ever creative challenge, the Half-of-March challenge, hosted by @carla.la.la.olson, and the day 1 prompt is “lioness.” (Check our Carla’s day 1 effort—it’s gorgeous!) I wasn’t planning on participating. AT ALL! After all, I’m creating like mad these days! I’m a woman obsessed, can’t wait to get my hands on my markers each day! What do I need daily prompts to get me going for? But then I realized that this is the PERFECT opportunity to expand my visual vocabulary!!! No, I don’t need prompts to get started, but shoot, I don’t know how to draw most of the items on Carla’s list! Can you say “paradigm shift”? So I set the intention to take ten minutes this morning to figure out (with Google’s help) how to *quickly*, in as few strokes as possible, get across the idea, “lioness.” Hmmm... This is not easy, peeps! I was NOT going to share this, but Carla’s post reminded me that the challenge is all about letting ourselves be vulnerable and brave. PERFECTIONISM BE DAMNED! This is where I am right now on my drawing journey. I get to accept that and embrace it. I don’t need to hide from it! Bring it on, baby! Tomorrow is another prompt, and I’m ready! #creativesandboxchallenge #doodle #originalart #imperfectionism #selfcompassion #marchsandboxchallenge