With Christmas around the corner, here is my Christmas and New Year gift guide for creatives:

📓 Art supplies are always a great idea!

Here is one of my must-haves for this holiday season. If you love sketching on location, pleinairs, urban sketching, you will love it:

Winsor & Newton Pocket Box (really light-weight and handy when traveling and sketching on location), there is even a travel brush inside the set! Link
Hahnemühle Watercolour Sketchbook with good quality 300 g/m2 paper, one of my favourites, I’m going to order a few of those: Link
Escoda Ultimo Brush, Size 10. My go-to round watercolour round brush for travel sketching, just fantastic! Link
Escoda Short-Handled Watercolour Brush Set for those who are serious about watercolour sketching on location and want three various size/form brushes. Beautiful canvas carry case do in hand with this stunning set. Link

Fineliners! Here are some artist’s classics:

Pigma Micron Set of 6 Link
STAEDTLER Liners for Sketching, set of 6 Link
Famous Copic Multiliners (Various Colours Set) Link

🧑‍🎨 Home for markers, so finally everything will be well-organized (example)

🎁 A gift card to your local (or online) art supply shop or your art gallery/museum shop

✍️ A sketchbook or a set of sketchbooks with great paper quality and in various sizes (from the tiny A6 for quick sketches on location to bigger formats like A4). Here are a few of my favourites:

Leuchtturm Sketchbook Link
Moleskine Art Collection Sketchbook (in various colours) Link
Canson XL (for markers, watercolour, all things drawing) Link

📚 Books, books, books! On art history, design, artists, art, creativity, you name it (a couple of book title ideas you can check in this article on my blog). Here is the link to my book “The SKETCH. Interior Design Drawing“.

✍️Pencil case (always handy!), (example)

👍🏼Desk tech organizer to keep that creative chaos a bit more tidy (example)

👨‍🎨 If you love drawing on an iPad, consider ProBundle from Paperlike. It is the original matte screen protector for creators that feels like you're using real paper when drawing with your Apple Pencil.

📔 A beautiful notebook for journaling/planning/doodling, it should be really beautiful and with nice texture, so you want to put your hands on it daily (example from Moleskine)

🎨 Marker sets, good quality coloured pencils, depending on which technique you or your Creative prefer (I share my favourite marker sets here)

💳 Membership at Skillshare, Domestika or Masterclass, or any another creative platform where you can learn new great skills

🧑‍🎨An easel or a portable easel for plein airs

🧑‍🎨Big and adjustable table (so they can either stand or sit in front of it), (example)

💻 Online course on interior sketching/fashion drawing/Procreate, you name it (in my Online School you can get a course as a gift option at the checkout)

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Let this holiday season be filled with creativity and joy for you and yours!

Olga Sorokina