Fill 40 pages of your book with Such ideas as...:

Investigate 5 master artists. Include notes, thumbnails and observations, new insights. Connections to other artists or movements.

Cut open a fruit or vegetable. Fil la page with a detailed study in colour.

Draw the fruit again but only drawing the forms that make a pattern (e.g. seeds)... follow through until the image becomes simple but compelling.

Drapery and egg study with a single light source. You are looking to render the folds of fabric and how to control the vaue and define form. It's a sketch so you can elect to refine parts and leave other parts vague, but do use the whole page.

Dictionary of marks. set asside 5 pages of your sketchbook to document 100 ways to make a mark.

Open your book to a blank pair of pages... Close your eyes and make a squiggle with black ink. From the squiggle,evolve it into a full drawing, your media and wether it is observational, expressive or symbolic, up to you.

Each art work you make (4 by midterm) should be accompanied by sketches. These should include compositional studies as thumbnails, observational studies, material experiements, and notes.

Study the art of another culture. include thumbnials, facts, obersvations you made. Make connections to other artistis and cultures. Who influence who? Etc.

Take a section of a photo of a face and paste it in your sketchbook, upside down. On the opposing page, draw this image as you see it, in colour. An upside down portrait will lead you to draw what you see instead of what you think your see.

Create an image using mixed-media collage (using things such as thread, glue, printed images, stamps, paint etc.). Fill up the page, eliminating white page spaces.

Fill several pages with hand studies in various positions. Each hand should be actual size and use hatching to make it appear 3D.

Zoom in and create a full page drawing of a fruit or vegetable in a full colour range in emphasis, rhythm, contrast, or asymmetry.

Complete a self portrait in grey scale from a a mirror. Then do a second version in colour. Use a single light source.

Draw a portrait of a friend over Skype. Use colour.

Look carefully (study) a simple object and its shadow for 10 minutes. Turn out the lights or blindfold yourself. Take 15 minutes and draw the object blindly from memory. Turn on the light and draw it again from observation. Reflect o the experience.

Do a series of 1 minute studies of pets or people around you. Aim only to capture their form.