3rd Annual
#CoffeeSketch2025
January, 2025
Draw your coffee cup or drinking vessel of choice for 31 days
What We'll Do
Beginning Wednesday, January 1 -
Friday, January 31, 2025
Join the Continuous Line Storytelling Group
Draw your coffee in any style, any medium, and share with the Continuous Line Storytelling group.
Start the new year with creativity and caffeine! This annual 31-day drawing challenge is a tradition in our community. Each day in January, we focus on sketching our coffee cups (or tea, or any favorite drinking vessel) using continuous line drawing techniques, and/or any technique of your choice, and any medium you choose. Share your sketches in our Facebook group or on Instagram with the hashtag #CoffeeSketch2025.
Wednesday, January 1, 2025 kicks off the next #CoffeeSketch2025 in the #ContinuousLineDrawing group, a drawing challenge that helps build line confidence, composition abilities and drawing confidence, plus it's suuuuper fun. Whether you join us every day or pop in when you can, it’s a fun, inspiring way to kickstart your creativity in the new year.
- Have a dedicated sketchbook with at least 31 pages
- Have copy paper + big pen for line warm-ups
- You can draw your coffee cup or any other drinking vessel; wine cups, beer steins, glug mugs, skies the limit!
- Don't spend more than 15-minutes drawing your coffee cup; put a time limit on it
- It does not have to be continuous line, although it can be
- Post daily in the Continuous Line Storytelling with the hashtag #CoffeeSketch2025
Meagan will be leading the challenge with livestreams, demos, drawing tips and emotional support to help you complete this drawing challenge, because a daily drawing challenge is a game changer to help catapult drawing abilities.
This is not a watercolor challenge
-- unless you want it to be; it's a drawing challenge.
Open to all skill levels and mediums.
Use what you have:
Pen
Pen and Watercolor
Crayons
Colored Pencils
iPad Procreate
Urban Sketching
Continuous Line Drawing
Ball Point Pen
Oil Paints
Oil Pastels
Please have a separate sketchbook dedicated to the challenge, as well as a stack of copy paper for the continuous line drawing warm-ups.
Gather your goods and be ready to go
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
ANDALE!
Join Artist/Educator Meagan Burns in the Continuous Line Storytelling group for this fun 31-day drawing challenge that will catapult your drawing skills if you stick with it!
Whether you're an experienced artist or a beginner, this drawing practice can have a significant impact on your drawing ability. Meagan will offer proven tips and techniques for incorporating continuous line practice into your routine, and guide you towards discovering your own personal style.
Whether you're an experienced artist or a beginner, this drawing practice can have a significant impact on your drawing ability. Meagan will offer proven tips and techniques for incorporating continuous line practice into your routine, and guide you towards discovering your own personal style.
Why Join the Daily Drawing Challenge:
- Build a daily drawing habit
- Gain confidence in your line work
- Start the year with creativity and connection
- Join a lively community of artists who share your love for drawing
Who is Meagan Burns
Meagan Burns is an artist, instructor, and founder of Art Leap Adventures, a unique travel sketch workshop business that offers immersive art experiences in historical urban cities. Originally from Chicago, Meagan specializes in continuous line drawing, guiding participants to overcome their drawing fears and embrace a fluid, expressive style.
Through Art Leap Adventures, Meagan has organized workshops in dynamic destinations such as Mexico City, Oaxaca, San Miguel de Allende, San Francisco, and Paris, France, inviting artists of all levels to explore the world through their sketchbooks.
Meagan created the Continuous Line Drawing group in 2021, a thriving community designed to help artists build skill, strength, and confidence as visual storytellers. This group has connected artists from around the world, encouraging creativity and personal growth through continuous line drawing. Meagan is also one of the admins of the San Miguel de Allende Urban Sketchers chapter, where she has been contributing to the local and global sketching community since 2016.
With a diverse background in marketing, graphic design, and regenerative farming, Meagan brings a wide range of experiences to her teaching. Her workshops focus on loosening up, embracing imperfections, and finding joy in the creative process—principles that resonate with artists looking to capture the essence of place through continuous line sketching.
Through Art Leap Adventures, Meagan has organized workshops in dynamic destinations such as Mexico City, Oaxaca, San Miguel de Allende, San Francisco, and Paris, France, inviting artists of all levels to explore the world through their sketchbooks.
Meagan created the Continuous Line Drawing group in 2021, a thriving community designed to help artists build skill, strength, and confidence as visual storytellers. This group has connected artists from around the world, encouraging creativity and personal growth through continuous line drawing. Meagan is also one of the admins of the San Miguel de Allende Urban Sketchers chapter, where she has been contributing to the local and global sketching community since 2016.
With a diverse background in marketing, graphic design, and regenerative farming, Meagan brings a wide range of experiences to her teaching. Her workshops focus on loosening up, embracing imperfections, and finding joy in the creative process—principles that resonate with artists looking to capture the essence of place through continuous line sketching.
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Benefits of a Continuous Line Practice
1. Push through drawing fears to add more unique character to your drawings
2. Gain a better understanding of composition and logistics; how things are connected
3. Build confidence and gain a sense of accomplishment by starting and completing your drawings with unique character
2. Gain a better understanding of composition and logistics; how things are connected
3. Build confidence and gain a sense of accomplishment by starting and completing your drawings with unique character
Who Should Have a Continuous Line Practice
1. People who are interested in having a drawing habit
2. People who are curious about drawing the world around them
3. People who believe in practicing their craft
4. People who enjoy drawing
5. Travel Sketchers // Urban Sketchers
2. People who are curious about drawing the world around them
3. People who believe in practicing their craft
4. People who enjoy drawing
5. Travel Sketchers // Urban Sketchers
Suggested Art Tools
- Sketchbook: Canson XL Watercolor 140lb, 9"x12" (or try other large sketchbooks)
- Pens: Sailor Fude de Mannen Fountain Pen, Sharpies, Pentel Brush Pens
- Inks & Watercolors: INDArt Saturated Watercolor Inks, Daniel Smith Watercolors
- Extras: Platinum Carbon Ink, pencil, gum eraser, bleed-proof white, paper towel
Copy Paper -- I bind about 50 pages at my local Office Depot so I have a book dedicated to warm ups that is NOT expensive paper.
Bic Pen
Mid-Quality Sketchbook Paper, such as Canson XL Watercolor 140 lb 9"x12"
Ink Pens -- I use Sharpies, Microns, Fountain Pens, such as the Fude Mannen with Platinum Carbon Ink
Coloring Tools of your choice: watercolors, crayons, watercolor pencils, markers, whatever you have
What's in My Art Bag:
Sailor Fude de Mannen Fountain Pen (or similar of your choice)
Sharpies
Unibal Signo 207 Impact Bold
Pentel Brush Pens
Platinum Carbon Ink (to refill fountain and brush pens)
Daniel Smith Watercolors
INDART Saturated Inks
Quality Watercolor Brushes
HB Pencil
Gum Eraser
Water Containers
Paper Towels
Salt, Scrapers, White Crayon, White Gel Pens
Bic Pen
Mid-Quality Sketchbook Paper, such as Canson XL Watercolor 140 lb 9"x12"
Ink Pens -- I use Sharpies, Microns, Fountain Pens, such as the Fude Mannen with Platinum Carbon Ink
Coloring Tools of your choice: watercolors, crayons, watercolor pencils, markers, whatever you have
What's in My Art Bag:
Sailor Fude de Mannen Fountain Pen (or similar of your choice)
Sharpies
Unibal Signo 207 Impact Bold
Pentel Brush Pens
Platinum Carbon Ink (to refill fountain and brush pens)
Daniel Smith Watercolors
INDART Saturated Inks
Quality Watercolor Brushes
HB Pencil
Gum Eraser
Water Containers
Paper Towels
Salt, Scrapers, White Crayon, White Gel Pens
Testimonials
Meagan's Continuous Line Drawings
Watch Meagan Continuous Line Guanajuato, Mexico
Why Storytelling Matters
Continuous Line Drawing Mission Beach San Diego
Chilly morning on the beach but that didn't stop me from drawing Reed's Ice Cream in one fell swoop!
Continuous Line Drawing Boicot Cafe Mexico City
Connect with @meagan_burns_
Connect with @ArtLeapAdventures
Continuous Line Drawing Palace of the Fine Arts San Francisco
