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Mar
09

#28tomake

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Creative Live set up a free series; one month of creative challenges called #28tomake. Each week they had a different teacher setting exercises and you get one short fun exercise a day. The idea was to encourage people to get more creative and by setting small challenges daily, by the end of the 28 days it would have become a daily habit that you could continue. You got an email everyday with a link to the video describing your brief for the day and you shared your wok on social media with #28tomake. Check out everyones work here….

28 to make

I had so much fun with this. I still have a few more exercises to complete but got most of them done. It was free to sign up and if you like – you can access all the video tutorials here and follow along. Let me know in the comments if you took part too and how you got on :)

Here is what I did (scroll over and press play on the ones where you see my hand! ):

I’m taking part in @creativelive #28tomake challenge. First day is to draw what you’re drinking. Mine is a cup of tea. My favourite beverage! My sister got me a gorgeous vintage dinner set a while back and this is from it :) #tea #instaart #sketching #illustration

A photo posted by Melissa Doran (@goradiate) on Feb 2, 2016 at 5:32am PST

Day 2 of #28tomake with @creativelive draw a houseplant – mine is from ikea and I’ve kept it alive for aaaages!! #Instaart #sketching #illustration #hyperlapse #creativelive #houseplants #ikea

A video posted by Melissa Doran (@goradiate) on Feb 2, 2016 at 9:59am PST

Day 2 #28tomake @creativelive #instaart #illustration #sketching #houseplants

A photo posted by Melissa Doran (@goradiate) on Feb 2, 2016 at 10:03am PST

#28tomake day 3- draw the artwork from one of your favourite albums- this is Mercury Rev Boces album. Really enjoying this little project and love the enthusiasm of this weeks teacher @katebingburt !!! Thanks @creativelive :) #instaart #fanart #albumart #boces #illustration #sketching #creativelive

A video posted by Melissa Doran (@goradiate) on Feb 4, 2016 at 4:36am PST

#28tomake day 3 #mercuryrev #boces #albumart #instaart #fanart

A photo posted by Melissa Doran (@goradiate) on Feb 4, 2016 at 4:38am PST

Day 4 #28tomake – draw what’s in your bag :) @creativelive #instaart #illustration #sketching #drawing

A photo posted by Melissa Doran (@goradiate) on Feb 7, 2016 at 7:41am PST

#28tomake time lapse for day 5 task- draw a receipt! Really enjoyed this one surprisingly! @creativelive @katebingburt #instaart #illustration #drawing #sketching #westmeath #timelapse #hyperlapse #lettering #typography #creativelive

A video posted by Melissa Doran (@goradiate) on Feb 9, 2016 at 4:06am PST

#28tomake day 5- draw a receipt @creativelive @katebingburt #instaart #illustration #lettering

A photo posted by Melissa Doran (@goradiate) on Feb 9, 2016 at 4:03am PST

#28tomake day 6- new teacher! Today’s exercise is: people watching mad lib- “the freezing sleet jauntily walked” ?! Lol @creativelive Am catching up with the 28 days so nice to see that day 7’s exercise is to take the day off! :)

A photo posted by Melissa Doran (@goradiate) on Feb 9, 2016 at 9:14am PST

#28tomake day 8- circles : draw a picture in each circle :) great task @ryanputnam ! #illustration #drawing #sketching @creativelive #creativelive

A video posted by Melissa Doran (@goradiate) on Feb 11, 2016 at 11:34am PST

#28tomake day 8- circles :) #instaart #illustration #sketching #drawing #animals #nature @creativelive #creativelive

A photo posted by Melissa Doran (@goradiate) on Feb 11, 2016 at 11:38am PST

#28tomake day 8- scribbles and shapes- a scardey-cat afraid of a little mouse :) #creativelive #drawing #exercises #facesinthings

A video posted by Melissa Doran (@goradiate) on Feb 12, 2016 at 1:39am PST

And here I am! #28tomake day 10- blind contour self portrait :) #creativelive

A photo posted by Melissa Doran (@goradiate) on Feb 12, 2016 at 2:04am PST

#28tomake day 10- blind contour self portrait- look in the mirror and draw yourself without lifting your pen or looking at your page. Really fun :) #creativelive @ryanputnam #drawing #exercises #instaart #contour #linedrawing #illustration #selfportrait #faces

A video posted by Melissa Doran (@goradiate) on Feb 12, 2016 at 1:57am PST

#28tomake day 11 photo doodles- another great exercise from @ryanputnam and @creativelive – we drew on photos- I did this in illustrator. #exercises #drawing #illustration #instaart #illustrator #adobe #nature #bear #owl

A photo posted by Melissa Doran (@goradiate) on Feb 15, 2016 at 10:42am PST

#28tomake day 12 @creativelive – exquisite corpse- take turns drawing one part of the body- head by me, torso by Patrick, legs by Aisling @aisgriff and coloured in by our little 2 year old friend Fia ❤️ last of the very fun week of exercises by @ryanputnam … #instaart #illustration #drawing #exercises #creativelive #doodles #friends #character #kids

A photo posted by Melissa Doran (@goradiate) on Feb 16, 2016 at 9:08am PST

Blackout poetry for #28tomake day 16 #creativelive…. So you have to black out s page of print and leave out some words to make some kind of poem! :) here’s mine- “Be brutal. The sympathy senses tradition. Distant poetry feels limited. So enhance the pressure. She is equally autobiographical-city pleasures and spiritual uplift. Eventually, love is agreeable.” #blackoutpoetry #exercises #playtime

A photo posted by Melissa Doran (@goradiate) on Feb 22, 2016 at 9:24am PST

#28tomake day 17 tangrams- you had to make something from the shapes :) very meditative to work with :) #creativelive

A photo posted by Melissa Doran (@goradiate) on Feb 23, 2016 at 9:32am PST

This was a hard one! Day 18 #28tomake – visualising sounds- another great exercise from @creativelive ❤️ #abstract #drawing #exercises #sounds

A photo posted by Melissa Doran (@goradiate) on Feb 25, 2016 at 9:42am PST

Happy Friday! #28tomake day 23- make your marker- make up a new tool to draw with- mine is a twig from Herbert park coupled with some calligraphy ink #creativelive #lettering #typography #handmade #twigs #illustration #timelapse #livedrawing

A video posted by Melissa Doran (@goradiate) on Feb 26, 2016 at 8:32am PST

So much fun drawing with twigs! #28tomake #creativelive

A photo posted by Melissa Doran (@goradiate) on Feb 26, 2016 at 8:46am PST

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