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    It's Great to Create: 101 Fun Creative Exercises for Everyone
    It's Great to Create: 101 Fun Creative Exercises for Everyone
    It's Great to Create: 101 Fun Creative Exercises for Everyone
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    It's Great to Create: 101 Fun Creative Exercises for Everyone

    By Jon Burgerman

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    Draw, doodle, make, and have fun! There are no mistakes in this wild and wonderful world from doodle artist and illustrator Jon Burgerman. Packed with prompts for 101 unexpected art projects, It's Great to Create offers artists of all ages loads of fun ways to get inspired and kick-start the creative process. From drawing with your eyes closed or doodling on your clothes to putting faces on your condiments or finding colors that rhyme, every page offers a new opportunity to embrace creativity and make something awesome. This unique ebook invites readers to lower their artistic inhibitions and offers a glimpse into the mind of a truly original artist.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChronicle Books Digital
    Release dateAug 1, 2017
    ISBN9781452155548
    It's Great to Create: 101 Fun Creative Exercises for Everyone

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      It's Great to Create - Jon Burgerman

      Text and artwork copyright © 2017 by Jon Burgerman.

      Page 224 constitutes a continuation of the copyright page.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher.

      ISBN 9781452155548 (epub, mobi)

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publiction Data:

      Names: Burgerman, Jon, author.

      Title: It's great to create : 101 fun creative exercises for everyone / by Jon Burgerman.

      Description: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2017.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016050674 | ISBN 9781452155326 (alk. paper)

      Subjects: LCSH: Creative ability—Problems, exercises, etc.

      Classification: LCC BF408 .B857 2017 | DDC 153.3/5—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016050674

      Design by Hubert & Fischer

      Chronicle books and gifts are available at special quantity discounts to corporations, professional associations, literacy programs, and other organizations. For details and discount information, please contact our premiums department at corporatesales@chroniclebooks.com

      or at 1-800-759-0190.

      Chronicle Books LLC

      680 Second Street

      San Francisco, California 94107

      www.chroniclebooks.com

      Contents

      Introduction 6

      Prompts for Paper 8

      Loosen up. 10

      Get a pen and scribble with it until it runs out. 12

      Scribble with your eyes closed. 14

      Colors collide. 16

      Draw with your weaker hand. 18

      Draw with your mouth. 20

      Sound shapes. 21

      Scribble scramble. 22

      Draw while singing loudly. 24

      Good vibrations. 26

      Face time. 28

      Blindfolded self-portrait. 30

      Selfless selfies. 32

      Dream lunch. 36

      Draw on glass. 38

      Upside down. 43

      Ramble on. 44

      Tell me about your mother. 46

      Hybrids. 48

      Light on dark. 50

      Loose goose. 52

      Color rhyme. 54

      Paint with paint. 55

      Waterworks. 56

      GO BIG. 58

      Start but don’t finish. 60

      The whole hole. 62

      Slices and dices. 64

      Stroke animals. 66

      Megapenopolis. 68

      Nudles. 70

      Doodle diary. 72

      Pocket ’zine. 74

      Shut it. 78

      Prompts for Objects 80

      Dada collage. 82

      Doodle dollars. 83

      Just add eyes. 84

      Biscuit head. 86

      Easy tee. 87

      Edible landscapes. 88

      Sick bag, bro. 90

      Gingerbot 2000. 92

      Make your own flag. 94

      Snack rags. 96

      Upcycle. 97

      Make your own grocery labels. 98

      Corking. 102

      Foodles. 104

      Become a lo-fi tech guru. 106

      Customize a jacket. 110

      Headliner. 112

      Egghead. 113

      Rock buddies. 114

      Customize your shoes. 116

      Give a gift. 117

      Headhunter. 118

      Remaster an old master. 119

      Chalk walk. 120

      Portraits of people on people. 122

      Dot to dot. 124

      Bottle it. 128

      It’s great to cre-plate. 130

      Share a smile. 132

      Half a job. 133

      Woodcuts. 134

      Play with leaves. 136

      3-D doodles. 138

      Prompts for Indoors and Outdoors 142

      Outdoor expanse. 144

      Lemon slice. 146

      Breakfast buddy. 148

      Texture mapping. 150

      Light lines. 152

      Use your hands. 154

      Make your own world. 156

      Reform a form. 158

      Give people new bodies. 160

      Use your surroundings. 162

      Temporary tattoodles. 165

      Think inside the box. 166

      Scale the walls. 171

      Ham it up. 172

      Fax machine. 174

      Become invisible. 176

      Doodle monarch. 178

      Banana faces. 180

      Doggie style. 182

      Build your own fashion brand (out of cardboard). 184

      Cloud gazing. 186

      Household portrait. 188

      Diorama drama. 190

      Dish sculpture. 192

      Fruit monster. 194

      Food friends. 196

      Paper eyes. 198

      Is modern art more fun with googly eyes? 200

      Accidental band. 202

      Skewed views. 204

      Coffee mate. 206

      Alien invasion. 208

      Spy hole. 210

      Kaleidoscopic. 212

      Resources 214

      Pens 214

      Berol Felt-Tip Pens 214

      Bic Biro Pens 214

      Chartpak Ad Markers 214

      Muji Fine Pens 214

      Muji Travel Felt Pens 215

      Krink Pens 215

      Pentel Sign Pens 215

      Pilot VBall 215

      Posca Pens 215

      Sharpies 215

      Stabilo Bionic Pens 215

      Stabilo Write-4-All 216

      Uni-Ball Eye Pens 216

      Uni Pin Fine-Line Pens 216

      Zig Brush Pens 216

      Pencils 216

      Crayola Chalk 216

      Eberhard Faber Mongol Pencils 217

      Paper Mate Sharpwriter Pencils 217

      Tombow Mono Drawing Pencils 217

      Paint 217

      Amsterdam Acrylics 217

      Daler Rowney Acrylics 217

      Golden Acrylics 217

      India Inks 218

      Montana Colors Water Based 300 218

      Montana Spray Paint 218

      Pebeo Porcelaine Paint and Paint Markers 218

      Pebeo Studio Acrylics 218

      Winsor & Newton Designers Gouache 218

      Winsor & Newton Watercolor Markers 218

      Brushes 219

      Barbara Ceramic Brushes 219

      Royal Talens Brushes 219

      Dynasty Black Gold Brushes 219

      Princeton Brushes 219

      Winsor & Newton Brushes 219

      Yasutomo Brushes 219

      Notebooks 219

      Field Notes Notebooks 220

      Muji Blank Notebooks 220

      Strathmore Paper 220

      Other Stuff Lying Around My Studio 220

      Cardboard 220

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