Sketch a Day: what to draw

Tom Hicks

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About this app

Get daily inspiration and get your creativity flowing with Sketch a Day! Join 250,000 artists in the best sketching community around!

The idea is simple: every day, we set a new subject for everyone to draw. You do your sketch or drawing, take a photo, and upload it for that day for everyone to see.

You can sketch, draw, paint, use digital art apps. Whatever you like that gets you into the habit of drawing every day.

Submit as many as you like, and see your progress over time.

And with the all-new Learn section, you will find great tutorials from our wonderful community of talented artists. Want to learn watercolours? Craving crafty ideas? Need to practise drawing people? Then the Learn section is perfect for you.

Lots of people are using Sketch a Day as a great way to start a positive habit. I have had many messages of support about the effect it has had on people's mental health, wellness and mindfulness. Sketching is a great habit to get into, even if like so many people, you think you "can't draw". It's a very peaceful, quiet and creative pastime, and receiving the help and support of others is a great way to feel good about yourself.

Sketch a Day is a wonderful, positive community with people from all over the world coming together to draw a common theme. If you need ideas for drawing, inspiration, encouragement or just want to look at amazing art, Sketch a Day is the right app for you.

If you've ever participated in Inktober, this app is like that - but forever - and you have a place to share your work and enjoy others.

** Sketch a Day is growing fast **

There are over 300,000 artists in the community now. It's just growing faster and faster all the time!

If you want to learn, want to get back into drawing, or just want a quick practice or warm-up, then Sketch a Day could be perfect for you. For beginners, we have tips and tutorials each day. For the experts, you can post your images and show your skills to the world.


So...go sharpen your pencils!

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Did you know?

• By drawing each day and getting likes, you can build your own private gallery of famous masterpieces.
• Parental controls make Sketch a Day a safer place. You can prevent 'adult material' from being seen by your children by setting a PIN on the parental controls.
• You can comment on people's sketches so you can ask how they did it, ask for tips, give them some kudos or just be silly!
• You can also add your Instagram account name so people can follow you on Instagram quickly and easily.
• When you've done a drawing, you can share it on Facebook straight from the app.

We have had some really creative drawings in our first few months. We've had pencils, watercolours, digital drawing, pen and ink, acrylics. We've had kids, adults, beginners, improvers and experts!

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I would like to use this space to say thank you to all the people who have messaged me to tell me how Sketch a Day has made their lives better. Drawing every day really seems to have a huge positive effect on people's lives.

Ratings and reviews

I like the social media aspect, it's nice being able to share your work with other artists and get feedback, as well as getting to see different artist's interpretations of the same prompts. However, the prompts themselves are extremely lacking. They're all just one simple word, like "Clay" or "Wood", and at that point, it doesn't really feel like a challenge. There's also no way to edit streak settings. I work 60 hours a week, so I can't really draw every single day, so I never have a streak

Review Update: I really did enjoy this app and life happened and when I came back the prompt of the day (and all following) was behind a pay wall. I understood being able to unlock it using an ad. Now I would have to wait hours to be able to see the prompt for the current day, or pay a monthly subscription. The biggest reason I used this app was for the daily prompt.

Love it. One prompt a day, and you submit art. What I like the best is that it asks you what materials you use (like watercolor), and then it sorts out the art by materials. You can see all the entries or just the ones that use a specific medium. It gets me to at least think about art each day even if I dont submit a piece. They really just want you to keep doing an art. It's also a good app to turn to if you are stuck and need a break.

What’s new

We've rebuilt tutorials from the ground up to help you learn more effectively:

• Creator profiles let you find and follow the artists who match your learning style
• Categorized tutorials replace the old single list - find what you need instantly
• New video tutorials bring lessons to life
• Premium members now get access to exclusive advanced content
• Daily prompt tutorials link directly to helpful YouTube videos and articles when you need inspiration

Happy sketching!