DRAW YOUR DAY

Draw Your Day is an instructive guide to creating a daily illustrated journaling practice based on the author's unique process, featuring information on materials, light instruction in a variety of art mediums, inspirational prompts, and helpful tips and tricks. Clarkson Potter will publish the corresponding journal, Draw Your Day Sketchbook, simultaneously.

As people look for ways to unplug and be more mindful in their daily lives, many have turned to creative journaling guides such as Start Where You Are and 1 Page at a Time. DRAW YOUR DAY provides readers with the nuts and bolts for creating a daily illustrated journaling practice based on the author's unique process, featuring information on materials, light instruction in a variety of art mediums, inspirational prompts, and helpful tips and tricks.

Samantha Dion Baker is a widely admired and followed artist on Instagram (nearly 60k followers and appox. 2k "likes" per post), where she shares her "sketch journal," an illustrated daily record of her life, drawn in a fresh, modern style. In DRAW YOUR DAY, Baker guides you through her inspirational practice, offers looks at in-process work, and provides guidance for starting your own illustrated journaling practice. Part instructional guidebook and part encouraging manifesto about how making arteven art that's not museum-worthycan make your life more mindful and meaningful, DRAW YOUR DAY is ideal for both seasoned artists looking for fresh inspiration, as well as aspiring artists who need a friendly nudge to get started.

SAMANTHA DION BAKER is an artist and graphic designer known for her detailed illustrations and journal work published most recently in Buzzfeed and on Instagram and Instagram for Business. She graduated from Cooper Union in New York and spent more than twenty years as a graphic designer working with many iconic institutions including The Witney Museum of Art, St. Regis Hotels Resorts, and The Shaker Museum. Her illustration clients include The Highline Hotel, Atelier Cologne, and Kikkerland Design. Her self-published daily sketchjournals are on permanent collection at The Morgan Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.