SKETCHBOOK PROMPTS (watch the clip "Fill Your Sketchbook" to see some awesome examples of these first few prompt and get ideas for drawing on your own:
1. Draw something you would find in your backpack or pocket. (Spend 15 -20 min. and draw it as accurate, and with as much detail, as you can).
2. Draw something you would normally throw away. Try a new medium, like ink, colored pencil or charcoal. (Spend 15-20 min.)
3. Grab an object and turn it into a character. (Spend 20-30 min.)
4. Choose an animal and then give it some human characteristics. (Spend 20-30 min.)
5. Give yourself a challenge to draw one thing five times. Try drawing from different angles, with different mediums or different styles. (Spend 15-20 min. each day for 5 days)
INKTOBER DRAWING! (FOR ALL OF OCTOBER) Choose from the following prompts if you need an idea:
1. Crystal 2. Suit 3. Vessel 4. Knot 5. Raven 6. Spirit 7. Fan 8. Watch 9. Pressure 10. Pick 11. Sour 12. Stuck 13. Roof 14. Tick 15. Helmet 16. Compass 17. Collide 18. Moon 19. Loop 20. Sprout 21. Fuzzy 22. Open 23. Leak 24. Extinct 25. Splat 26. Connect 27. Spark 28. Crispy 29. Patch 30. Slither 31. Risk
FACE OFF NOVEMBER ( drawing faces)
1. Follow along with tutorial for drawing male face (find proportions)
2. Follow along with tutorial for drawing female face (find proportions)
11. Fill a page with doodles. (Spend 20-30 min.)
12. Find a photo on your phone (or find one online) and do a black and white drawing of your photo (or a section of it). (Spend 20-30 min.)
13. Use the photo you used in #12 and do the same subject in color (watercolor, colored pencils, pastels, crayons, markers, etc. (Spend 20-30 min.)
14. Choose a another photo from your phone (or find one online) and draw it upside down (turn your reference upside down AND draw it upside down). (Spend 20-30 min.)
15 - 20. Go to artprompts.org and click on the "character," "situation," "creature," "challenge," "environment," or "object" button. Draw one of these prompts each day for 5 days. (Spend 15-20 on each drawing)
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SKETCH BOOK PROMPTS:
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5o things to draw when you don’t know what to draw:
- 3 animals wearing clothes
- A page of worms
- Practice drawing your thumb in different positions
- Blind contour drawing of your bed
- Draw your dinner
- Cut a rectangle out of a piece of paper, tape it to a window, and draw only what is inside of the rectangle
- Set up an impromptu still life using 5 things in your pantry or cabinets
- Trace around your hand and then go in and try to make it look like something other than a hand drawing
- Draw a mug with someone or something peeking out of the top
- Make up some underwater creatures
- Fill a page with only a section of an animal
- Turn your initials into a drawing of some sort of food
- Separate your entire page with 6 lines, then fill in the spaces with different patterns
- Draw something using only dots
- Clouds
- A hat
- Draw a self portrait using pencil, and smudge it with your fingers so it’s as blurry as you can make it
- Big huge cartoon eyes
- Draw the outline of something without using lines. You have to just use the edge of a pencil to shade around where the object outline would be
- Draw a skeleton the best you can, just from memory
- Stacks and stacks of cars
- Draw the simple house shape you used to draw as a kid, but then fill it in with tons of details
- Half your face, half someone else’s – it can be a magazine face
- Draw something (object or still life) using all cross hatching
- Fill your page with stars, then fill in all the negative space
- Cut out eyes, noses, and mouths from a magazine, tape them onto your page, and copy them
- Draw a basic face shape on your page, then separate it into lots of geometric shapes to color in or draw patterns in
- Write your name in the center of the page, then draw things, people, ideas, whatever that you love around your name
- Splatter ink, watercolor, tea, what-have-you on your page and turn it into something cool
- Cut shapes out from magazines and use them to ‘draw’ something on a sketchbook page
- Find an image of an old master painting, and copy it into your sketchbook
- Make a simple line drawing, then write all over the top of it- try to ‘draw’ the words with beautiful lines
- Find some texture that you like and do a few close-up studies of it in your sketchbook
- Use liquid ink or a Sharpie to draw a black animal silhouette then use a white gel pen to draw its skeleton over the black
- Draw all the flowers you can think of without looking at any reference pictures (or flowers). Make ’em up if you wish
- Make a page full of copied logos
- Start with a tiny circle in the center of your page, then draw outward, filling your page with tiny drawings
- Hands, hands, and more hands
- Fill the page with a grid and draw as many insects as you can think of (or make up)
- Draw the cover of your favorite book or album art
- 2 circles- shade one to look like a ball, and the other to look like a hole
- Draw an object, but personify it by giving it a face
- Spoons and forks
- Inside corner of a room
- Outside corner of a building
- Marbles
- Crumpled paper – bonus points for shining a light on it from the side so yo have dramatic lighting
- Glass of water with or without ice
- Scribble, scribble, scribble
- Tree and fill in the trunk area with a really unusual pattern.
