design-sketchbook-practice

design-sketchbook-practice is a skill for Claude Code from jeffreytse/grimoire-core. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,282 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured plan for regular sketchbook practice, with session types, warm-ups, rotating drawing goals, and progress reviews.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create daily or weekly sketching routines, choose exercises, and review what is improving.
Why use it?
Unguided repetition can reinforce the same habits. A planned routine keeps practice focused on particular drawing skills over time.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the grimoire-art plugin — 18 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create daily or weekly sketching routines, choose exercises, and review what is improving.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/design-sketchbook-practice
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jeffreytse/grimoire-core --skill design-sketchbook-practice
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeffreytse/grimoire-core

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install grimoire-art, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,282 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00042 $0.01282
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00641
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00256
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00128

Measured 12d ago against content hash 8080aa3cd238, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-sketchbook-practice scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/art/drawing/skills/design-sketchbook-practice/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Sketchbook Practice

Build a structured sketchbook practice by defining session types, rotating skill focus areas, establishing daily warm-ups, and reviewing progress systematically to develop drawing ability faster than unguided practice.

Why This Is Best Practice

Why best: Deliberate, rotated practice targeting specific sub-skills produces measurably faster skill gain than unstructured sketching, because it keeps the artist working at the edge of current ability instead of reinforcing existing habits. Adopted by: The Watts Atelier, New Masters Academy, and most structured art education programs prescribe deliberate practice frameworks for sketchbook use. Nicolaïdes' "The Natural Way to Draw" — still taught at leading art schools — structures a full-year curriculum entirely around systematic sketchbook exercises. Concept design studios (Epic Games, Riot, Disney) expect prospective hires to demonstrate consistent sketchbook practice in their portfolios. Impact: Ericsson's deliberate practice research (1993, Psychological Review) shows that unstructured repetition produces minimal skill gain — improvement requires focused practice on specific sub-skills just beyond current ability. Applied to drawing: an artist who spends 100 hours on gesture vs one who spends 10 hours on gesture, 10 on perspective, 10 on value, etc. — the latter develops broader capability significantly faster. A structured rotation ensures no foundational skill is neglected.

Steps

1. Audit your current drawing level by sub-skill

Before designing the practice, assess each core skill area:

  • Gesture / line confidence: can you capture pose in 30-second sketches?
  • Proportion: accurate relative sizing across the figure, face, objects?
  • Perspective: 1-point, 2-point, 3-point understanding?
  • Value / shading: range from light to dark, edge control?
  • Anatomy: structural understanding of figure, face, hands?
  • Observation: can you accurately transcribe what you see?

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 93 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 8080aa3cd238

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design-sketchbook-practice is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeffreytse/grimoire-core (4 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,282 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.