Keep a Journal of Shape Drawing Possibilities
Keeping several attempts can make choices visible across a collection. A journal is useful only if the artist wants a record; it does not need to become a progress chart or completion target.
A separate activity to try
Save a drawing with a date or a short title if that helps identify the idea. Leave another page for a repeated outline with a different interpretation. A blank sketchbook can provide the extra room.
Look at the next choice
When revisiting an earlier drawing, point to a decision: an orientation, a role for the shape, or a feature that changed the subject. The artist can decide whether to keep exploring that choice or begin elsewhere.
Decide whether to continue
The Shape Drawing Challenge book offers repeated beginnings within one collection. A separate journal can hold additional scenes or variations without claiming those extra activities are included in the published book.
Use a published book for another starting task
How to Draw: Sketchbook offers use the blank space for reference practice or independent ideas. Compare that task with Shape Drawing Challenge’s repeated outlines and open-ended responses. The practice suggestions in this article are website-created activities, not additional printed features being claimed for either book.
Keep the next idea open
Shape Drawing Challenge gives artists 16 repeated beginnings, six illustrated examples per shape, and room for 480 independently chosen drawings.