Happy National Cartoonists Day and Start Seeing Monarchs (as in butterflies) Day! It’s also Hoagie/Scrapbook/Homebrew/Silence the Shame Day, so if I were really ambitious I could have fit a few more in there for today’s Creative Sandbox Community creative challenge daily prompt! I felt rather pleased that I managed two in one, though. 🖍
Baby steps. We’re all about tiny and daily and small daily acts in the Creative Sandbox Community. 😉 After all, “Think tiny and daily” is Creative Sandbox Way Guidepost #4!
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#creativesandboxchallenge #tinyanddaily #smalldailyacts #visualthinking #visualcommunication #cartoonist #butterfly #monarchday #monarch #originalart

For Star Wars Day, my original thought was to draw R2D2 and Princess Leia together, so I did a Google search, but all the images I found of them seemed much more complicated to draw than I felt willing to take on…
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…so I gave myself the challenge of “How quickly can you draw Leia?”
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Then it became fun, rather than daunting! And after a few attempts to get sleeves and hands right, and figuring out whether to show feet or not, I drew this.
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Fast, simple, and gets the point across. Which is precisely the goal. 😊
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#visualcommunication #visualthinking #starwarsday #princessleia #r2d2 #creativesandboxchallenge #tinyanddaily #simpledrawing #originalart #dailydoodle #doodlesofinstagram #starwarsdoodles

It’s day 4 of the May creative challenge inside the Creative Sandbox Community. Our prompts this month are “National Days,” and one of the National Days today is Star Wars Day! Who knew?
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I was contemplating drawing Princess Leia, or even Leia with R2D2, but then I got wrapped up in all the details of R2 (which, yes, I know are not accurate, all you Star Wars fans, but close enough that people will know who this is supposed to represent, which is my goal here).
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I’d still like to try my hand at Leia’s hairstyle… How quickly can I draw Leia—that would be a fun question to answer in drawing!
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#r2d2 #creativesandboxchallenge #tinyanddaily #smalldailyacts #creativesandboxcommunity #doodleart #dailydoodle #originalart #100dayproject #starwarsdoodles #starwarsday

Yesterday’s prompt in the Creative Sandbox Community monthly creative challenge was Truffle Day, because May 2 is National Truffle Day—who knew?!
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For a delightful illustration of the original meaning of “truffle,” rather than the chocolate kind, don’t miss @carla.la.la.olson’s Instagram! She’s my daily inspiration. 😊❤️
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I’d point you to more Creative Sandbox Community members, but they’re shy, and do their sharing inside the community only. That’s one of the great things about having a private community space: it provides a safe container to share creations, away from the public eye. So people DO share, that allows them to build up their courage muscles. 😊
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#chocolatetruffle #doodle #dailydoodle #dailycreative #creativesandboxchallenge #tinyanddaily #smalldailyacts #creativesandboxcommunity #originalart #visualcommunication #visualthinking #neulandmarkers

I started my conversation with @heyamberrae off by confessing that the email pitching her to be on the podcast triggered ALL OF MY ENVY MONSTERS!
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So we talked about turning envy into inspiration… and so much more. 🖍
These Visual Shownotes™ are highlights from just the first few minutes! It was quite a conversation, filled with gems and insights. 💡
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Have a listen at http://bit.ly/CSW159
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#visualshownotes #visualnotes #visualcommunication #graphicfacilitation #graphiccommunication #sketchnotes #sketchnote #podcast #podcastersofinstagram #neuland #neulandmarkers #visualthinking #envy #inspiration #originalart