Notice What Sitting Posture Works for You + Next Flip Through Familiar Pages

This week Jerzy and Rob chose to sit for 2 minutes to learn more about our posture.

Chosen prompt to practice next:

Flip through pages off your shelf and notice what moves you. To remind us about what storytelling elements affect us, possibly even inspire and influence us, we'll give 'bibliomancy' a try again:

Set a 2 minute timer then flip through pages in comics or any other book you like on your shelf.
Then stop at a moment that moves you.
Write down details about that moment that stand out to you.

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Draw the Same Shape 3-4 Times Then Make Different Faces Out of It + Next Notice What Sitting Posture Works for You

This week Jerzy and Rob chose to draw one shape multiple times, then use those shapes to draw faces.

Chosen prompt to practice next:

Notice What Sitting Posture Works for You. Sometimes at the art desk we find ourselves sitting in ways that aren't very ergonomic. This practice is about noticing your posture while trying and finding ways to sit for 2 minutes comfortably.

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Brainstorm People Who Helped You On Your Path + Next Draw Same Shape 3-4 Times Then Make Different Faces Out of It

This week Jerzy and Rob chose to brainstorm about people who helped us on our individual paths, building on the gratitude theme from last week and making it more specific.

Chosen prompt to practice next:

Draw the Same Shape 3-4 Times Then Make Different Faces Out of It. Going for a visual sketching playful practice this time. First draw one shape multiple times, 3 to 4 times for example. Using that shape as the basis for a face, sketch on top of those shapes to make each of them a different face/character head.

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Brainstorm Gratitude Ways and Situations + Next Brainstorm People Who Helped Your On Your Path

This week Jerzy and Rob chose to brainstorm about gratitude, thinking of ways to express and share gratitude more often.

Chosen prompt to practice next:

Brainstorm People Who Helped Your On Your Path. Let's getting more specific than the previous gratitude brainstorm. Take two minutes brainstorm about your path to where you are now and the people who helped you in some way along the way.

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Reverse Engineer Visual Compositions + Next Brainstorm Gratitude Ways and Situations

This week Jerzy and Rob chose to practice reverse engineering visual compositions, each in their own way.

Chosen prompt to practice next:

Brainstorm gratitude ways and situations. Take two minutes to brainstorm ways in which you could express more gratitude to the people in your life.

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Visualize Your Journal + Next Reverse Engineer Visual Compositions

This week Jerzy and Rob both chose to build on the prior practice of journal thoughts into a word cloud, to practice visualizing ideas from that journal.

Chosen prompt to practice next:

Reverse engineeer visual compositions. Choose anything visual you'd like to capture the regions and structure of what you're seeing. Comic pages, comic panels, book covers, posters, so many possibilities to choose to explore what makes up its visual composition.

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Create A Word Cloud With What's On Your Mind + Next Visualize Your Journal

This week Jerzy and Rob both chose to journal thoughts into a word cloud, 2 minutes at a time. They look back on how last week's challenge prompt went and share a new prompt idea to practice next.

Chosen prompt to practice next:

Visualize your journal. Building from your journal, perhaps from last week's practice, chose something from it to make visual. This could be descriptive prose or any sort of doodle, sketch or drawing.

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14 - Create an interesting wrestler pose + Next create a word cloud with what's on your mind

Prompted last week by Jon David Guerra, this week Jerzy and Rob both chose draw interesting wrestler pose or poses, 2 minutes at a time. They look back on how last week's challenge prompt went and share a new prompt idea to practice next.

Chosen prompt to practice next:

Create a word cloud with what's on your mind. Use any materials at hand to fill a page or pages of any size with what's on your mind. Put to paper any thoughts as words, phrases, or more.

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Sketch a 3-4 panel looping comic + Next create an interesting wrestler pose

Prompted last week by Jen Vauhn, this week Jerzy and Rob both chose draw a 3-4 panel looping comic, 2 minutes at a time. They are joined by Jon David Guerra of Nightmare Pro Wrestling and look back on how last week's challenge prompt went and share a new prompt idea to practice next.

Chosen prompt to practice next:

Create an interesting wrestler pose. Using the prompts from the Sketchamania challenge, pick a prompt and make a wrestler sketch 2 minutes at a time with a goal to make the pose interesting.

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Write a dialog + Next sketch a 3-4 panel looping comic

This week Jerzy and Rob both chose to write a dialog, 2 minutes at a time. They are joined by Jen Vaughn of Very Very Spaceship and look back on how last week's challenge prompt went and share a new prompt idea to practice next.

Chosen prompt to practice next:

Sketch a 3-4 panel looping comic. Using just that prompt or getting started with a concept called "bibliomancy" where you take one or a few books off your shelf, turn to a random page, pick one word and add that to the concept of your comic.

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Create one drawing + Next write a dialog

This week Jerzy and Rob both chose to create one drawing, 2 minutes at a time. They look back on how it went and share a new prompt idea to practice next.

Chosen prompt to practice next:

Write a dialog in any form that works for you, 2 minutes at a time. It can be a conversation between 2 characters in your head, improvised with things near you, and doodled, hand written or typed! Start the conversation in your first 2 minute session, then add to it in further sessions.

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Photograph Things + Next Create One Drawing 2 Minutes at a Time

This week Jerzy and Rob both chose to photograph things that catch our attention, like "ah!" or "hm!" and see what we gather after a week of practices.

Chosen prompt to practice next:

Create one drawing, 2 minutes at a time: get setup to keep revisiting the same drawing you start in 2 minutes, then add to it and refine it in further 2 minute practice sessions.

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Draw with a Randomized Prompt + Next... Photograph Things that Capture Your Attention

This week Jerzy and Rob both chose to draw things based on a randomized prompt. You could use a die to come up with your drawing prompt:

1st roll, shape influence: 1–6: dot, line, triangle, square, circle, blob
2nd roll, mood: 1–2: happy, 3–4: grumpy, 5–6: confused/silly
3rd roll: number of characters to draw

Another way to use the same rules yet automated, use this web page to get a prompt automatically: 2 Minute Practice - Random simple shapes + mood drawing prompt

Chosen prompt to practice next:

Photograph things that capture your attention: for 2 minutes photograph things that make you go "ah!" for any reason.

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Draw Circles

This week Jerzy and Rob both chose to practice with drawing circles to warm up or cool down.

Chosen prompt to practice next:

Drawing with a random prompt: Roll a 6 sided die. Sketch a simple creature/abstract character for each number you get on the die.

1st roll, shape influence: 1–6: dot, line, triangle, square, circle, blob

2nd roll, mood: 1–2: happy, 3–4: grumpy, 5–6: confused/silly

3rd roll: number of characters to draw

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Postcards and Questions for Friends

This week Jerzy doodled postcards for friends and Rob's goal was to gather a list of questions for friends to send via text messages.

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Writing

This week both Jerzy and Rob practiced writing whatever comes to mind for 2 minutes. Jerzy chose writing in a composition notebook, Rob via digital notes.