Draw Your Day for Kids!: How to Sketch and Paint Your Amazing Life
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- Create Date：2021-12-07 06:51:39
- Update Date：2025-09-06
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- Author：Samantha Dion Baker
- ISBN：0593378903
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Summary
Hours of fun， art， and inspiration await in the kids' version of popular Instagram artist Samantha Dion Baker's Draw Your Day， an instructive and inspirational guide to keeping a daily sketch journal。
With an encouraging and kid-friendly tone， Baker shares the benefits of keeping an illustrated daily journal with young readers。 Drawing daily is a relaxing and reassuring way to express yourself， as well as a practical way to hone art and observation skills and creativity。 The book will also function as a time capsule， enabling kids to look back on their memories and feelings， as well as having a visual representation of their developing artistic abilities。
Adapted from the adult book with simplified text， kid-friendly art and prompts， and a built-in journal for kids to apply everything they've learned and create their own keepsake， Baker's signature illustrations inspire and demonstrate art techniques。 With recommendations for materials， practice exercises， and ideas for inspiration， a budding artist could hardly wish for anything more。
With an encouraging and kid-friendly tone， Baker shares the benefits of keeping an illustrated daily journal with young readers。 Drawing daily is a relaxing and reassuring way to express yourself， as well as a practical way to hone art and observation skills and creativity。 The book will also function as a time capsule， enabling kids to look back on their memories and feelings， as well as having a visual representation of their developing artistic abilities。
Adapted from the adult book with simplified text， kid-friendly art and prompts， and a built-in journal for kids to apply everything they've learned and create their own keepsake， Baker's signature illustrations inspire and demonstrate art techniques。 With recommendations for materials， practice exercises， and ideas for inspiration， a budding artist could hardly wish for anything more。
Reviews
Alicia Bayer
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This is a very inspirational and informative guide to keeping a drawing day journal for kids。 It has practical instruction for how to shade， draw faces and figures， etc。 with the first half of the book giving instruction on basics and how to do journal pages with advice like overflow outside of the page， how to use white space， the rule of thirds， types of lettering， etc。 and how to do things like record your day， draw emotions and weather， etc。 It's illustrated throughout with the author's incr This is a very inspirational and informative guide to keeping a drawing day journal for kids。 It has practical instruction for how to shade， draw faces and figures， etc。 with the first half of the book giving instruction on basics and how to do journal pages with advice like overflow outside of the page， how to use white space， the rule of thirds， types of lettering， etc。 and how to do things like record your day， draw emotions and weather， etc。 It's illustrated throughout with the author's incredible journal pages。 There are also a lot of exercises， like make lists of things you'd need on a vacation that you could draw and fill these 6 squares with drawings of animals， etc。The one negative I see with it is that the author's art is so good and I can see a lot of kids （and even adults） getting frustrated at not being able to do anything near this level。 She doesn't really give instruction on how to draw the things other than faces and basics like copying her apples three ways to show how different media have different effects （a really cool idea）。 But even I felt kind of intimidated by this book。 She has things like a really detailed drawing of a camel on one page that's painted with watercolors with perfect calligraphy and amazingly realistic dogs and all this stuff that would leave me feeling over my head。 I would have loved to have seen pictures of journal pages done by kids in addition， to show that those can be fantastic too and you don't have to be an amazingly accomplished artist to make wonderful journal art pages。 She does mention at the very end that she grew up in a family of artists and she felt frustrated as a kid because she felt that her art wasn't good enough and that it took years of practice， but I wish she would have put that at the start of the book instead of the end and also showed us some of those pages （she said she kept her stacks of art journals） or those of other kids。 This is the kids' version of an adult book she wrote and I can see this being a little less overwhelming for adults， though I love the mood and the exercises she gives。 As long as the child is not a perfectionist and understands that all art is great art， I think this will be a really fun and useful book。 The last nearly 100 pages are blank， for the child to start a journal of their own。I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review。 。。。more
MookNana
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