
Draw Your Adventures
Making Art to Celebrate Everyday Experiences and Travels Near and Far
Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed · Print & ebook · July 15, 2025
Capture the details of your unique and remarkable experiences with this illustrated guide to drawing your travels and adventures, whether close to home or around the world.
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- Who it’s for
- A friendly spark for turning everyday outings and trips into simple sketches.
- Themes
- art practice, travel, memory keeping
- Pacing
- Reflective
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Capture the details of your unique and remarkable experiences with this illustrated guide to drawing your travels and adventures, whether close to home or around the world. In Draw Your Adventures, artist and illustrator Samantha Dion Baker invites you to savor moments and capture memories using your eyes, your creativity, and a few art-making tools.
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With as little as a sketchbook and some pens, begin a new art practice or enliven an existing one with inspiration from the prompts, challenges, examples, and scavenger hunts that populate these pages. Your adventures are worth recording, whether they take you as close as your own kitchen or across the globe. Baker encourages you to see the world through an explorer's lens and provides ideas to guide you through adventures you can have during the everyday, on staycations, and over grand trips. - Paint your own postcards to send when abroad. - Add pockets to your sketchbook for storing mementos. - Create abstract pieces featuring the colors of the clothes you dug up in a closet cleanout. - Make a series of paintings of family and friends' front doors. - Document what you see around you on plane, train, boat, and road trips. Draw Your Adventures is the perfect size to carry with you on your excursions. Stunning visual examples from Baker's own work accompany the prompts, making this the perfect book to help inspire your own artmaking practice.
Sketchbook Spark
A friendly spark for turning everyday outings and trips into simple sketches.
Come here for
- drawing ideas
- easy dip-in prompts
Expect
- celebratory, travel-adjacent art
- kid-friendly, practice-first guidance
Where it sits
| Drawing Techniques | 80% |
|---|---|
| Adventure Travel | 43% |
| Pen & Ink Drawing | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Drawing Techniques
- Art Themes
- Adventure Travel
- Authors
- Samantha Dion Baker
- Publisher
- Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
- Published
- July 15, 2025
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- art practice · travel · memory keeping
- Reading lane
- Drawing Techniques