How to Draw a Nostalgic Norman Rockwell Inspired Picture for the Holidays!

Happy December Fun Fab Drawing Club member!!

If you've been hanging out with me and doing the latest lessons each month, last week's Norman Rockwell-inspired lesson was a PERFECT warm-up for today's NEW lesson! 

If you didn't get a chance to do that yet, I HIGHLY suggest you spend the extra hour there FIRST, before starting today's new videos.

Since both the drawing and shading portion of today's new lesson are fairly involved, I decided to just release the drawing portion today so you can take your time and work on this in chunks over the week if you'd like.  Next weekend, we'll bust out our alcohol markers and have fun FULLY bringing this Christmas-y duo to life, Norman Rockwell style!!​

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Drawing supplies are minimal today. I'm drawing with my .4 mechanical pencil on Bristol, but you use whatever you have and love!! 

👉Ready to get started on this 1-Hour Lesson? Me too!

Wanna Select A Different Project to Work On?

You've come to the right place! There are SO many amazing projects to work on in the Fun Fab Drawing Club!! If you're in the holiday spirit and didn't get to join me for the last Brain Stretches & Sketches LIVE, this cute elf was really fun!!

This adorable elf COULD be your holiday card this year if you are still looking for something fun to send out with a personal twist!

In fact, if you didn't join me for last month's Brain Stretches - I taught the club how to take a photo of your work, upload it to Canva (for free) to digitize it, then upload that image to VistaPrint to get cards printed featuring your own artwork! Timing could be tricky with today being the 10th, but you still might be able to make it work! 

​Want a Break from Drawing Faces? 

​If you're not celebrating any holidays right now, or are a bit tired of working on expressions, there are TONS of other options to consider. 

You could totally transfer your knowledge about expression drawing to the Fun Fab Furry Friends classroom! 

I have some adorable lions, cats, and dogs (PLUS a happy baby orangutan!) in this classroom. If you take a look at the thumbnails for these lessons, look at where basically the whole expression resides on each animal. Inside the eyes, right?! And in some cases the ears. They're SO cute!!

Have You Tried Perspective Yet?

If you haven't tried drawing any doors, window, buildings, etc. yet - let's step up your drawing game and increase your skills with some fun, fab facades!  In this classroom you learn all about perspective inside and out, plus how to do some urban sketching. This classroom could literally keep you busy for WEEKS and is going to help your skills as an artist GROW SO MUCH!! 

Choose whatever looks most fun to YOU. There's every subject under the sun from my childhood home to a country church, a lighthouse, a forest, cityscapes in London, and of course... A CASTLE!

Maybe You're in the Mood for a Little Fantasy Art? 

If you've been enjoying expressions and working on faces, you might love to transfer some of this knowledge to the Fun Fab Fantasy classroom! You can experiment with drawing on toned paper, adding fairy (or elf!) ears and simply enjoy a different spin on face drawing projects. 

If you like the projects in the Fun Fab Fantasy classroom as much as I think you will, you might also REALLY love the Celtic Collective! You can see the Visual Index for the Celtic Collective by clicking HERE.

The Celtic Collective works just like the Fun Fab Drawing Club, except Lucy Brydon co-hosts the club with me and provides video lessons too! Plus- everything we do has a fantasy art theme to it :) 

If this is something you're interested in, shoot me over an email at Karen@AwesomeArtSchool, and we can get you hooked up with THE WONDER BUNDLE - which is ALL 3 CLUBS for the PRICE of TWO! 

​Stay Tuned for What's Coming Up Next...

Have an amazing week my friend!!