5 Simple Ways to Be Kind to Yourself in Your Sketchbook

In this video Susan Yeates offers 5 gentle creative practices that help artists use their sketchbooks as something more than just places for “artwork”. The goal of this edit was to create a video emphsising Susan’s nurturing and reassuring advice. Together we created a edit to inspire Susan’s audience to explore their sketchbook as spaces for kindness, rest and reflection.

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