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An instructive guide to creating an illustrated journal based on artist and Instagram sensation Samantha Dion Baker's unique creative process, featuring information on materials, creative inspiration and instruction, prompts, and helpful tips and tricks.

Samantha Dion Baker is a widely admired and followed artist on Instagram, where she shares her "sketch journal," an illustrated daily record of her life, drawn in a fresh, modern style. In Draw Your Day, Baker guides you through her inspirational practice and provides guidance for starting your own. Part instructional guide and part encouraging manifesto about how making art--even art that's not museum-worthy--can make your life more mindful and meaningful, Draw Your Day is ideal for both seasoned artists looking for fresh inspiration, as well as aspiring artists who need a friendly nudge to get started.

From the Publisher

Draw Your Day: An Inspiring Guide to Keeping a Sketch Journal

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Watson-Guptill (August 28, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0399581294
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0399581298
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.06 x 0.48 x 7.99 inches
Reviewer: T. Wilson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I love this book!
Review: I purchased this book after learning the basics of watercolor painting. After reading through the entire book I started making my first sketch journal. I returned from vacation with several fun photos and memories to refer to. I'm new to sketching, so this part was harder for me. But I took it slowly, adding pencil sketches, then ink using Micron pens. Next, I added some journaling about my vacation and finished using watercolor and Tombo water-soluble markers for shading. It was a blast! I added a few more pages about my vacation and am currently working on pages about my spring garden. This is addictive! Samantha's book is inspirational and contains a ton of examples and advice. I loved this book so much that I recently purchased her book, Draw Your World.I likely won't be sketch journaling like a daily diary, but more to record snippets of my experiences and use photos I've taken as references to compose them into pages. I'm fairly slow at this point so trying to keep up with a daily complete page would turn it into work for me and I want to keep it light and fun.Samantha, your books are wonderful! I can tell this is a new hobby for me that won't fade over time.

Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Beautify the journey
Review: I am on a journey helping my 96 year old Mom move and transition to an assisted living facility. This keeps me thoughtful and calm about how hard it is for her. This book can help anyone on any kind of journey-maybe even ordinary days, for me, i used it at a hard time.

Reviewer: ili pika
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Beautiful artwork
Review: This is a great book, full of useful advice about keeping a visual journal of your daily life. The author's journal pages are beautiful and make me wish I could "do that."As someone who can't (yet) "do that," I was encouraged by several references about how it's fine to use stick figures if you can't draw people, etc. I wish the author had included a chapter showing some of her own less-than-perfect work. Please let us see how your own ability to draw, paint, compose a page, progressed and improved. Page after page of perfect artwork is more daunting than inspiring. I'd love to see a satisfying journal page showing stick figures.I also have to add that there is a level of glamor here that left me feeling envious. Many of the sample pages refer to trips to museums, coffee shops and specialty food stores, skiing trips, dinners at restaurants that sound fascinating. I had to give myself a very serious reminder that no one's life consists of only those things, everyone has days when the whole family is sick and the highlight is that everyone made it to the bathroom in time. I wish there had been some pages about those days, too.

Reviewer: BayeMack3
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Absolutely beautiful ways to draw your day
Review: I love this book and think it is so beautiful. Mrs. Dion Baker is an extremely talented artist. I am no where near being able to execute sketches as beautiful as hers. However this book gives me so much inspiration and a great desire to pick up a pencil/paints and give it a try. If I keep trying I will get better and better and this book gives me so much beauty to strive for and makes me want to journal!!

Reviewer: California Painter
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Wonderful, Helpful Book
Review: This book really taught me how to layout my journal pages in an attractive fashion. I also found a lot of ideas and inspiration in the author’s text.

Reviewer: Sue B
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: a beautifully done book and I highly recommend it!
Review: Recently I came across the work of Samantha Dion Baker on Instagram and I was instantly transfixed by the images of her work that she was posting. Drawings of the everyday ordinary things she comes across throughout her day done in her sketchbook done in such a way that you can’t help be charmed and intrigued by them . I have been missing the days of the sketchbook challenge that a group of us did years ago and have been thinking about making 2019 the year I get back into a regular sketching habit. So I picked up Samantha’s new book “Draw your Day” and I find myself definitely inspired by what’s in it’s pages. You won’t find step by step directions on how to draw in this gem of a book but what you will find is plenty of inspiration along with some great information about tools and materials to get you started on developing your own sketching practice. She has a very approachable writing style and you feel as if you are sitting across from the author sharing a cup of coffee flipping through her sketchbooks. You won’t find any photographs in this book – it’s entirely illustrated with the authors drawings taken from her own sketchbooks. It’s a beautifully done book and I highly recommend it!

Reviewer: Marissa Huber
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Encouraging & Inspiring Book for Anyone Wanting to Add Creativity & Meaning to their Days
Review: I've been following Samantha Dion Baker's work on Instagram for years now and pre-ordered this book as soon as she let us know it was out. I read the entire book the first weekend I received it and was so touched by the thoughtfulness, encouragement and helpful tips put into this book. It was a great blend of Samantha's personal journey, why the daily drawing has impacted her life, what it means to her family, and how she can sometimes secretly capture memories and remember them years later for her and her children to remember some day.This book was especially wonderful because she focused on how anyone could benefit. You don't have to be an experienced artist, writer or journalist. It doesn't have to be beautiful or shared with the world. The point is that everyone's daily life - no matter how routine, mundane or seemingly boring can reveal moments of wonder, joy, small pleasures through a PRACTICE of looking each day. It reminded me that life is happening now, and the small moments add up (like compound interest) to create our own personal journey.Such a simple and lovely book, but the meaning behind it is POWERFUL and fantastic. Thank you Sam for sharing your heart and your pages with all of us.

Reviewer: Mo
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Tolles Buch, mit super Infos und Inspirationen. Würde ich jederzeit wieder kaufen.

Reviewer: T-Boston
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Love this book - I bought Draw your World first and loved it so much I bought Draw your Day as well. Samantha Dion Baker has a wonderful way on getting you to draw as more of a way of being, to let ones creative spark come from the everyday. I have been creating each day even with some mistakes and learning to accept them in the process. Great read and knowledge helping you find your own style.

Reviewer: Cigale
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Très bon guide pour débutant

Reviewer: DrDammit
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Sweet book but overpriced for what you get, its smaller than expected

Reviewer: Marilí Persiani
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Ho trovato questo libro di grandissima ispirazione. Non bisogna aspettarsi un libro su come disegnare e dipingere, perché questo è un testo che guida alla scoperta del disegno personale, attraverso l'esercizio e l'osservazione di ciò che accade nel nostro quotidiano. L'inglese è molto scorrevole, i disegni sono fantastici. Ci sono anche indicazioni su quali penne e matite, o colori che si possono usare per creare uno sketchbook personale, un diario bello da guardare e pieno di ricordi da rivedere in un secondo momento. Partendo dalle cose più semplici: una colazione al bar, un cucciolo visto per strada, le annotazioni del tempo, dello stato d'animo attraverso disegni e colori. Lo leggi e ti viene subito voglia di cominciare ad annotare, pasticciare, incollare il biglietto del cinema, lo scontrino della pasticceria con accanto il disegno della brioche la cioccolato che hai mangiato. Un libro che è una grande sorpresa. Credo che acquisterò anche il secondo volume.