Join the Back to Basics 30/10 Challenge and rebuild your drawing from the ground up. Thirty drawings. Ten sessions. One set of principles, applied again and again, until they're yours.

September

Draw Anything, Anywhere The Back to Basics 30/10 Challenge

10 Sessions. 30 Drawings. Every basic principle, drilled until it's instinct.

Dates of challenge:
7th - 18th Sept

Noon UK time. 


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✨ THE Back to Basics 30/10 CHALLENGE ✨

Learn to Draw Anything, Anywhere.

You've done the challenges. You've filled pages. And somewhere along the way, you've probably noticed the same thing every drawer notices eventually, the skills that felt shaky at the start are still the ones that trip you up now, just in a different disguise.

That's not a failure of practice. It's a failure of repetition with intention.

This September, we're stripping everything back. 

No elaborate scenes, no long sessions, no pressure to produce something impressive.

Just the fundamentals, line, shape, proportion, value, perspective, mark-making, approached from thirty different angles across ten sessions, until they stop being things you think about and start being things you simply do.

Three drawings a session.

Ten sessions.

A different subject every time, so the variety keeps you engaged, but the principles stay exactly the same, because that repetition is where the transformation actually happens.

This is the challenge for anyone who wants to stop relying on the right reference photo, the right conditions, the right amount of time, and instead build the kind of foundation that means you can draw anything, wherever you happen to be, with whatever you've got in front of you.

No matter your level, this challenge will help you:

Nail the fundamentals so they become second nature, not guesswork
Draw confidently across a huge range of subjects, not just your favourites
Break the habit of avoiding "hard" subjects because your basics feel shaky
Build the kind of muscle memory that travels with you anywhere

Here’s How It Works...

This is not random drawing — it's a stacked, step-by-step learning process:

  10 focused sessions: Each one built around a short lesson and three quick drawings, so it fits into a real week, not an idealised one

  Same principles, new subjects: Every session returns to the same core skills — but applies them somewhere new, so the learning compounds instead of repeating.

 Neurological programming: Why repetition with variation is how your brain actually builds skill, and how to use that to your advantage on the page.

  A genuine range of subjects: From still life to figure to landscape to invented forms — so "anything, anywhere" isn't just a slogan by the end.

  Mindset + momentum: The thinking that keeps you showing up on day seven, not just day one — and what to do when a drawing doesn't work..
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Stay Accountable in Our Drawing Community

You’re not doing this alone. Connect with other participants, share your progress, and get feedback in a supportive community environment.

  • Stay motivated with group accountability
  • Share your sketches and see others’ work
  • Celebrate your 30-drawing transformation together

What You’ll Achieve during the challenge.

By the end of the challenge, you will:

 Have a completed sketchbook of thirty drawings, spanning a genuine range of subjects
 Understand — properly understand, not just intellectually but in your hand — the basic principles that underpin every drawing you'll ever make
 Build the confidence to approach an unfamiliar subject without hesitating

 Learn the methodology, mindset, and momentum strategies that make consistent practice sustainable, not just a burst of September enthusiasm
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Who This Challenge Is For

  • Anyone who's done a few challenges and wants their fundamentals to actually stick
  • Hobbyists who want to stop feeling limited to "safe" subjects
  • Anyone who wants to draw anything, anywhere — not just what's easy to reference

No previous experience required. If you can commit a short session ten times, this is for you.

The 10-Session Structure

Themes are sequenced from simple, static subjects through to organic, moving, and finally full-scene subjects — so complexity builds session by session, even as the core principles keep repeating underneath. Every principle shows up more than once, in a different context each time, which is where the "over and over again" transformation actually happens.

By session 10, you're not just drawing a landscape. You're using line, shape, proportion, value, perspective, negative space, and composition all at once, in one image. That's the whole point of the 30/10 structure: each principle gets trained in isolation first, so that by the end it comes together instinctively, on any subject, anywhere.

What's included?

Your investment includes:

All content needed to get going

Includes all images and video tutorials across the full 30-drawing, 10-session structure

exclusive access to bonuses

Full access to all bonus lessons, community, and resources

a transformative journey

Rebuild your drawing fundamentals and your confidence, one session at a time

PLUS........

Loving the idea of going back to basics — and ready to make that kind of grounded, repeated practice a permanent part of how you draw, not just a September reset?

This challenge is one of a series I run throughout the year inside the Annual Scratch to Sketch Hub, each one building on the last, taking you deeper into a different aspect of drawing from life.

Upgrade to annual membership and you'll get access to every challenge as it lands across the year — including the full 30 Day Back to Basics Course, a longer, deeper version of exactly the work you'll do this month, for whenever you want to return to the fundamentals and go further.

Longer sessions, more complex subjects, and a structured curriculum designed to transform the way you see and draw the world around you — not just for ten sessions, but for good.

Full access to the Real Life Drawing Mastermind, and every future Hub challenge.

Deeper dives into observational drawing, composition, and technique.

A focused year of structured practice, not a series of standalone challenges.

Draw Anything, Anywhere The Back to Basics 30/10 Challenge

10 Sessions. 30 Drawings. Every basic principle, drilled until it's instinct.

Dates of challenge:
7th - 18th Sept

Noon UK time. 


Available on REPLAY - JOIN ANYTIME!