Draw Your Adventures: Making Art to Celebrate Everyday Experiences and Travels Near and Far

by Samantha Dion Baker

Overview

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. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593836231
Publisher:	Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
Publication date:	07/15/2025
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Samantha Dion Baker is originally from Philadelphia, where she grew up in a family of artists. She graduated from The Cooper Union in New York City and spent over twenty years working as a graphic designer. Now a full-time illustrator and artist, her favorite thing to do is wander the city streets and travel with her family, drawing all of the things she does, eats, and sees in the pages of her sketch journal. She lives and works in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons. She is the author of Draw Your Day, The Draw Your Day Sketchbook, Draw Your World, and Draw Your Day For Kids!

Editorial Reviews

Through beautiful sketchbook illustrations and friendly guidance, Draw Your Adventures shows us how to take ordinary moments—like waiting in a doctor’s office lobby or going out for a café lunch—and transform them into art-filled adventures. Readers will come away with practical tools to fuel their sketchbook practice and a mindset shift to help them approach their lives with deeper wonder and creativity.”—Rosalie Haizlett, author and illustrator of Tiny Worlds of the Appalachian Mountains and Watercolor in Nature

“Every page of Draw Your Adventures is an adventure in itself: Baker expertly weaves beautiful sketchbook pages in her signature style with tips, prompts, and reflections on capturing the moments that make up our experiences, whether it’s a trip around the world or a step out the front door. What a perfect gift for anyone hoping to hone their skills and embrace the world around them. I will be reaching for this book again and again.”—Haley Weaver, author of Give Me Space but Don’t Go Far

“Draw Your Adventures by Samantha Dion Baker is an inspiring and empowering lesson in how to connect with everyday moments—big or small—as adventures, and capture them in art so the memories live on. It’s a book about drawing, but it’s more than that. It’s a reminder to be present in your life.”—Jennifer Orkin Lewis, author of Draw Every Day Draw Every Way

“Life can become an adventure when seen through the pages of a sketchbook, and Samantha demonstrates how simple, fun, and fulfilling this can be!”—Nishant Jain, author of Make (Sneaky) Art

“Samantha is a legend in the world of sketchbook journaling, and Draw Your Adventures is the book I’ve been waiting for. With thoughtful prompts and creative ideas, she encourages you to see the extraordinary in both grand adventures and more everyday journeys. Wherever you are, Draw Your Adventures will inspire you to explore the world around you.”—Ohn Mar Win, artist, illustrator, and author of Go With the Flow Painting

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