The Art Of Self-Love invites you to look beyond the surface and connect with your authentic self - to nurture your inner child and set your creativity free!

This fun creative playbook is full of experimental portrait prompts and challenges designed to boost your mental health and help you to build confidence - in your drawing skills and in yourself.

Along with vibrant illustrations and artist interviews, it’s packed with creative activities designed to ignite your inner artist/child and bring joy into your everyday life. Playing both artist and muse, you’ll learn to see and draw yourself in expressive new ways - you might even meet your alter-ego!

You’ll be challenged to experiment with a range of materials, styles and approaches that encourage you to break free from ‘perfection’, re-frame ‘mistakes’ and discover new forms of self-expression. The book won’t teach you the ‘rules’ of portraiture - it will give you the confidence to break them!

Forget mastering the ‘perfect’ portrait, The Art of Self Love is about cherishing the most important masterpiece in your life – YOU!

• 224 pages

• 7 key sections + over 50 creative portrait challenges, set and illustrated by Author Sketch Appeal Founder Dulcie Ball

• Inspiring interviews + prompts from other illustrators

• A self-care section featuring Dulcie’s Top 10 Creative Self-care Tips

• First edition, published October 2020

Featuring our #ICONIC Sketchy Bitches logo designed by the brilliant Judy at Spoonful Sugar & Co, these bright white tees are screenprinted and made from 100% combed and ringspun cotton.

Your tee will be delivered in a sketchy pink postal box and we’ll send a FREE PIN with every order!

NB:

S - dress size 8
M - dress size 10
L - dress size 12
XL - dress size 14-16

The perfect bag for all your sketchy swag!

Our Sketchy Bitches totes are screenprinted on 100% cotton and available in 3 colours :

• Canvas + Black Logo

• Yellow + Black Logo

• Red + White Logo

Includes a FREE pin badge :)

Thanks again to Judy Andrews for designing our brilliant logo!

OUT OF SOCK!!

Available in 2 sizes (4-6 & 7-11) whilst stocks last. Bag yourself a pair now and keep your pins on point!

Material = Cotton, elastane & nylon mix

Our CELEBRATION issue is all about the joy of sketch and it’s packed with features, interviews, activities and artwork designed to fire up your creativity and get you in the mood to party, Sketch Appeal style!

It features work and stories by a range of amazing artists, from self-taught sketch addicts to celebrated book Author/Illustrators, all with one thing in common: they #LOVEDRAWING!  

Artists featured include: Judy Andrews, Trina Dalziel, Catherine Faulkner, Annie’s Fingers, Sophie Heywood, Jayde Perkin, Claire Prouvost, Lianne Middeldorp, Ilu Ros and Lorna Scobie.  Plus, expect lots of illustrations from Sketch Appeal founder Dulcimer Draws and our Materials Girl Sarah Fox!

Inside Issue 1:

• Features & Interviews: The Rise of Social Sketching, spotlight on Sketchy Bitches, an international Sketch-Change, A Day In the Life of a professional illustrator and more!

• Fun & Games: Activities and challenges you can do both on the page and off, including a super-special ‘Draw US In Your Style’ challenge with top prizes up for grabs from Lucy & Yak!

• DIY Sketchup: Everything you need to stage your own Social Sketchup party, including a recipe for Sketchy Biscuits!  

• Shopping: The Ultimate Black Pen, a Steal V Splurge felt-tip pen test, an interview with the founders of new gift store Jelly Armchair and lots of HELLO YELLOW gifts!

• Art & About: Things to do in an Art Gallery, Art-ventures in Amsterdam, The York Zine Scene and Sketchy Time in Manchester!

128 pages of pencil power, girl power and FUN!

Cover artwork by Dulcimer Draws
Back cover artwork by Judy Andrews @spoonfulsugarco