Top Resources and Challenges to Boost Your Illustration Skills

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Hey everyone 👋 I'm looking to improve my illustration skills. Can anyone recommend any resources that have helped them? I'm someone who likes drawing and is creative but a bit out of practice + I haven't done a huge amount of digital drawing/art before. I bought an Ipad last year but haven't used it as much as I intended. I think a big thing is to just get more confident + regular practice. Are there any daily or weekly challenges that I might be good to get started with? Let me know what things have helped you! :)

Daniel G Bright

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@George Rowland I'd say just practice

Victoria Price-King

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@George Rowland i done the same a few years ago. Brought an ipad to learn digital drawing. I hyper fixated for a few weeks and haven’t opened procreate in months 🙃.

Anyway I found art with flo on YT to be the only channel that was actually helpful and went into detail on how to do everything.

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Art with Flo

Go with Flo! Creative drawing lessons for everyone. Flo will teach you all about drawing and painting on an iPad, mostly in the app Procreate®. Flo’s lessons are for everyone, you don’t need any experience at all. Anyone can have fun creating!

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@Victoria Price-King Thanks for this - I'll try and give one of the tutorials a go 👍

Kyle Humber

@George Rowland I'm the same, I need to show my iPad some more love 😆

There is an illustrator by the name of Flo on YouTube who has a bunch of great tutorials! Following along with her helps to break down different steps and phases of making a piece in actual practice.

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Art with Flo

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@Kyle Humber Yeah, it's all about making time for it, I guess 👍 As you're the second to recommend this channel, I will have to give it a go. Cheers!

Kyle Humber

@George Rowland for sure! happy to help 😁

Madi 💫

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@George Rowland Inktober does a weekly prompt + challenges! it's a lot of analog but I think you can use the prompts for digital illustration too https://www.instagram.com/inktober

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@Madi 💫 Thanks, this is the kind of thing I'm looking for! I think my gf used to do similar drawing challenges on Instagram a few years ago. Think I'll try some tutorials and get back into practice - then when more confident, I'll try a challenge 😎👍

Madi 💫

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@George Rowland you so got it!! it's a challenge for a reason 😛

Maria Leonor Nogueira

• Jun 13, 2025

@George Rowland If you have live drawing sessions near you I highly encourage you to make it a habit, I can swear by that! Besides the accountability these events are also very social