The Drawing Habit: A Step-by-Step Guide to Improving Your Drawing Skills and Cultivating a Lifelong Practice of Creativity - Includes Downloadable Practice Sheets!

by Daria Bogdanova

Consistency is the key to drawing success! This encouraging step-by-step guide provides the advice, exercises, and tracking tools you need to keep it up.

The Drawing Habit by Daria Bogdanova (@daribodrawing) is more than a drawing reference—it’s a systematic approach to building a consistent, daily drawing practice that builds skills and confidence over time. With just 25 minutes of daily drawing, you can see remarkable improvement—whatever your starting point.

This inspiring book offers practical, easy-to-follow exercises, from drawing basic lines and shapes to exploring more detailed subjects like plants, trees, architecture, people, and more. Ideal for beginners and intermediate artists, The Drawing Habit encourages creativity, builds hand-eye coordination, and promotes mindful, consistent practice.

Inside, you will

Step-by-step exercises across popular subjects, covering everything from simple lines to more complex subjects and scenes.Tools for progress tracking, including downloadable practice sheets and a habit tracker template to help you stay motivated and see your improvement.Tips for integrating drawing into daily life, with advice and techniques for making drawing a regular, fulfilling part of each day.
The Drawing Habit will help you develop the skills and confidence to draw anything, one small, consistent step at a time—it’s the Atomic Habits for transforming your creative life.

Genres: Nonfiction, Art, Self Help, How To, Childrens

299 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 9, 2025

Reviews

[Mahdia Shoaib]

It actually helped me understand and learn the basics of drawing.

[Karen Scott]

So good and encouraging! The original reason I got this book is for the section on how to sketch people. Her style seemed achievable. Looking at my drawing journal as I progressed through the book is pretty incredible. It turns out you can learn to draw! We will see if I can somehow learn to draw people. It's an adventure!

[createitlibrarian (Amanda)]

***I received an advance reader copy from Edelweiss for and honest review***

This is a great book to get started practicing drawing! Highly recommend. I'd definitely impulse buy a book like this in a bookstore.

[Tori]

Succinct, tangible instruction.

[Cemile]

This is really an enjoyable book. Also I learned and practised a lot. There are some flower sketches that I’m drawing it everyday on my desk.

[Orfila]

The drawings are lovely. Lovely book

[Julia]

It was really nice to learn habit of sketching everyday but i expected it to be more step by step how to draw. I feel like drawing people was not enough explained.

[Danielle Vasquez]

I love this book for getting in the habit of daily sketching. All around great book.

[uonnssun]

approachable and hands-on

[Francisco Valente]

This is a great resource for someone who wants to start (or improve) a sketching hobby but doesn’t know where to begin. The author guides us through the basics of sketching, both theoretically and with practical exercises. By the end of the book, it really makes you believe that you can actually become a decent sketcher.