mark, Art, and sketchbooks
Sketch Book Artists is an online creative resource for digital drawing instruction and design solutions; founded by Mark Northcott in the spring of 2022 while he and his family were living abroad in Guanajuato, Mexico.
The concept of Sketch Book Artists was born in Mark’s imagination after having founded the Calgary SketchBookers in Calgary, AB Canada.
Over 300 members of this meetup group in the first 2.5 years made it clear there was a growing interest in gathering together to sketch and share with like-minded individuals.
People always enjoy spending quality time in artistic settings.
Especially if they’re getting something in return. That something would be invaluable insight into how to communicate more effectively with others in a visual setting.
Some of these benefits being:
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better memory
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improved hand-eye coordination
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enhanced cognitive thinking
Sketch Book Artists provides you not only with a means to empower yourself with drawing instruction through a meetup option as well as online classes, but ALSO provides a unique set of artistic and design services.
Having over 30 years of experience as a freelance artist, Mark’s favourite activity amongst them all is drawing caricatures for people; during events in person or online.
People love receiving their caricatures by email as soon as they’re completed and watching Mark draw them digitally is just an added fun instructional bonus - and what’s more - Mark gets a royal kick out of the smiles he sees at every event.
There’s more…but check that out below!
Sketch Book Artists offers drawing instruction online over Zoom.
There is a full course option and an Exploratory class option.
It should be noted that while the focus is on digital drawing - if you’re a student looking to learn to draw or get back into the sketch of things…please don’t let a lack of digital hardware keep you from starting on this journey!
If you have access to a reliable computer with zoom capabilities, a pad of paper, a pencil and an eraser - then you’re golden. Let’s begin….!