The Path
Week of April 27, 2026
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In this issue:
🎨 Get started in Procreate with Dan Scott and Nathan Brown
🧊 Build your first 3D world in Unreal Engine with Jordy Vandeput
✏️ Make low-pressure art with Mimi Purnell’s sketchbook practice
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Procreate Essentials: A Designer’s Guide to Digital Illustration
Ready to stop opening Procreate, feeling lost, and closing it again? Join Dan Scott and Nathan Brown for a beginner-friendly guide to creating polished digital illustrations in Procreate, from sketching and textures to type, layout, and animation. It’s a practical, approachable way to turn design skills into a repeatable illustration workflow.
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3D Modeling in Unreal Engine 5: No Blender Needed
Want to build your own 3D assets without learning a whole extra program first? Jordy Vandeput shows you how to use Unreal Engine 5’s built-in modeling tools to create, edit, sculpt, and texture custom meshes right inside UE5. No Blender, no app-switching, just a clear path to making your own 3D worlds.
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The Zero-Pressure Sketchbook: Building Creative Confidence with Scrap Paper
What if creative confidence started with scrap paper? Mimi Purnell shares her “junk sketchbook” approach, a low-stakes space for exploring ideas without pressure or perfection. With simple prompts and a refreshingly gentle mindset, this class shows how making room for messy, imperfect drawing can help creativity grow.
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Meet Teoh Yi Chie
Urban sketcher and visual storyteller Teoh Yi Chie brings a practical, everyday approach to drawing. Based in Singapore, he teaches approachable classes that help artists build a sketching habit, explore different tools and materials, and find creative inspiration in the world around them.
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“Have no fear of perfection—you’ll never reach it.”
— Salvador Dali
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No brief. No prep. Just vibes and questionable decisions. In the first episode of Creative Recess, Skillshare Top Teacher Simon Ip goes head-to-head with Skillshare motion designer Derek Pante in a fast, funny drawing challenge built on human-generated prompts and pure improvisation. It’s delightfully chaotic, and a great reminder that creativity gets a whole lot more interesting when you stop trying to get it right. Tune in for:
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- Panic-powered creativity: The timer is ticking and suddenly your brain has to figure things out in real time.
- Unexpected materials and ideas: Legos, pastels, and whatever else is within arm’s reach.
- A reminder that making can be playful: No pressure, no perfection, just seeing what happens.
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Feeling creatively fried? The inaugural edition of The Good Hour makes the case that your brain probably doesn’t need fixing, it just needs a little space to make something. More creative reset than another optimization plan, The Good Hour offers prompts, tools, and small ways to get unstuck and back into the groove such as:
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- Making beats over-optimizing: More people seem to be talking about creativity than actually creating, and this issue argues for returning to the practice of making.
- A small prompt can change everything: From Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies to Creative Recess-inspired challenges, a simple constraint can shake loose new ideas.
- Protect the human part: The piece takes a clear stance on AI in creative practice. Keep the act of making sacred, and let AI handle the admin if you need it to.
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What happens when you stop waiting to feel ready and just start making things? Claire van Kuijck of Claire Makes Things turned a lifelong love of drawing into a full creative career by staying curious, showing up consistently, and letting go of perfection along the way. Her story is part glow-up, part reality check, and a reminder that creative growth doesn’t come from getting it right, it comes from getting started. Claire’s story offers a few important reminders:
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- Confidence comes from doing: Waiting until you feel ready keeps you stuck. Making things is what builds momentum.
- Perfectionism will slow you down: Letting work be imperfect made it easier to create, experiment, and actually enjoy the process.
- Small, consistent effort adds up: You don’t need hours or a masterpiece. A few minutes and a tiny sketchbook count.
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Forget perfect—just start!
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