Making Art Everyday // Drawing Challenge! • Bardot Brush

Making Art Everyday is a series of daily, weekly, and monthly prompts and challenges to help you overcome creative fears and develop your art-making practice. Every month, we will feature a new theme that will allow you to hone a set of skills, practice drawing something specific, or complete a project. Participation is free! Join thousands of participants worldwide who are making art right alongside you. Learn More about MAE!

August's Theme: Kitchen

Pick the path that works for you. Choose to work on the monthly project, draw the daily prompts, or accomplish the weekly goal.

Monthly Project

Make a Postcard!

This month’s Making Art Everyday theme is Vacation Mode, where we will draw all kinds of vacation destinations. Travel postcards are a perfect way to utilize all those vacation-themed drawings!
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Daily Prompts

Week 33: Bedroom

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If you only do one piece this week, try this:

I drew this laundry basket with brushes from my Wash and Dry Watercolor Toolkit. This set contains everything you need to create wonderful watercolor-like paintings all with the convenience and control of digital art-making.

Week 32: Living Room

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If you only do one piece this week, try this:

Follow along with me as I show you how to draw a trio of house plants in Procreate. For this drawing, I’ll be using brushes from my Multi-Tonal Markers. This set can achieve some really interesting color effects, I think you are going to love the look and feel you can create with it.

Week 31: Kitchen

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If you only do one piece this week, try this:

This blender illustration was created with my *UPDATED* Basic Toolkit brush set that will launch next week! If you already own the Master Bundle or the Basic Toolkit, this update is FREE for you. Stay tuned for more news about this set.

Stay tuned! The new prompts will posted Sunday night Pacific time.

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Tutorials this Month

How to use this tool

On your iPad, open Procreate and Safari in split screen view and navigate to makingarteveryday.com. You’ll see the week’s prompts and tutorial to help you learn and be inspired.

Tap any of the prompts to get image references instantly.

Now get to it! Draw your own interpretation of the prompt.

Don’t forget to post and share your work. Sharing can sometimes be a scary thing but it’s really important for your growth to share and ask for feedback. Plus with all your impending practice, it’s great to have a record of how far you’ve come. Don’t forget to say you’re #makingarteveryday!

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Week 30: Found in the Desert

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If you only do one piece this week, try this:

In this tutorial, I’ll teach you how to make colorful, expressive, and texture-rich pastel painting in Procreate. I’ll teach you how to start with a reference photo, work with loose brush strokes, layer on colors, blend and smudge, and so much more.

Week 29: Found by the Water

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I drew these abstract sea shells with brushes from my Gouache Paintbox set.

Week 28: Found in your Neighborhood

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This little squirrel I drew always makes me smile, so I thought it would be fun to share my digital painting process!

Week 27: Found in the Sky

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If you only do one piece this week, try this:

I created this cute little seagull with my Wash and Dry Watercolor Toolkit. This set contains beautifully blending wash brushes and texture-full dry brushes that play perfectly together.

Week 26: Found in the Forest

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If you only do one piece this week, try this:

Let’s have some low-res fun! Create your own pixel art with this FREE Procreate brush set: Pixel Art for Procreate! 4 brushes and 3 set up ready-to-go canvases, plus a handy and informative user guide will get you going making pixel art in no time.