We round up our favorite gift ideas to get you and your favorite artist inspired for 2017.

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Gifts to Inspire

BOOKS

• Your Inner Critic Is a Big Jerk
• Shut Your Monkey
• How to be an Illustrator
• Foundations in Comic Book from SCAD Creative Essentials
• Graphic Artist's Guild Handbook of Pricing and Ethical Guidelines
• The Artist’s Way by Margaret Cameron
• Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
• 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up
• Outfoxed by Dylan Meconis
• Blankets by Craig Thompson Adult content
• Eisner Awards

Movies

• Pixar shorts
• Papereman
• Sanjay’s Super Team

Magazine Subscriptions

• Sift
• Flow
• Uppercase
• Juxtapoz NSFW
• MollieMakes
• Selvedge

Subscription services

• ArtSnacks
• Comixology
• Creative Bug
• Skillshare
• Blackwing Volumes
• Field Notes

Gifts to Get Creative

• Sketchbook Ep 1
• Sharpie art pen
• Fineliner Ep 4
• Sharpie Permanent markers
• Colored pencil Ep 8
• Watercolor Pencils Ep 9
• Unusual Pencils Ep 10
• Copic Sketch Markers Ep 22
• Brush Pens Ep 5
• Watercolor sets Ep 2
• Cotman 12-color set
• Faber-Castell Clic-and-Go WaterCup
• Mini mister set of 3
• Pentel Aquash waterbrush set
• BlueQ Raw Materials Pouch

Things You Could Make

• CW Pencils
• Nock Co
• Skylab Letterpress
• Coptic stitch is my favorite, but is a little involved
• Easier binding option, no sewing
• Teesha Moore Amazing 16-page Journal

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