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8/12/2019 Sketchbook A

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draw a pair of glasses draw an open book draw a bicycle draw anything made out of metal draw a hammer draw tree bark up close draw ocean waves draw a pile of rocks draw a cup of pencils draw hard candy draw any fruit (sliced open) draw any vegetable (sliced open) draw a reel mower (tough one) draw a pine cone draw a seashell draw a banana peel draw an old cabin draw an old factory draw flowers in a vase draw simple forms (cube, sphere, cylinder, etc.) draw old farm equipment draw a sailboat draw people standing in a line draw a bowl of peanuts draw a bowl of nails draw bushes or shrubbery draw several eggs on a surface draw your favorite insect draw a flower up close draw a thumb drive draw an exotic fish


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draw a scene from history draw a feather draw any detailed machine draw the insides of a watch or clock draw a skull draw an apple draw a portrait of someone that is a different race from you draw water coming from the faucet draw a creek in the woods draw a pair of socks draw an object that is moving draw a Cubist portrait draw a view from a window draw a candle in the dark draw three random objects from your refrigerator draw a bowl of popcorn draw a set of keys draw someone peeling off their skin draw your hand holding an apple (or other object) draw your feet draw yourself as a cartoon character draw a patterned cloth on a table draw a wine cork draw a face in profile draw a candlestick draw a fictional woodland creature draw a close up of grass draw an object three times in different lighting draw a pile of jewelry draw a close up of someones hair draw a doorknob


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draw a bird in flight draw a video game controller draw a pile of yarn draw a stack of dinner plates draw a trompe loeilimage draw hung drapery draw a water sprinkler draw calm water that is reflective draw a person falling just draw something!

149 Sketchbook Ideas

1. Draw the inside of your closet

2. Draw the contents of your desk drawer

3. Just before your room is cleaned, draw it

4. Draw the contents of your refrigerator

5. Draw the contents of your medicine chest

6. Draw the contents of your garage7. Draw your dads work table after hes worked on a project

8. Before the dishes are washed, draw them

9. Draw a pile of laundry waiting to get washed

10. If you have an octopus for a furnace, draw it

11. Draw a pile of bicycles on the sidewalk

12. Draw the guests at your parents dinner party

13. Draw yourself in a mirror

14. Draw your brother/sister practicing his/her instrument

15. Draw your friend shooting hoops in the driveway

16. Draw yourself painting your toenails (if you do)

17. Draw your hand in multiple positions


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18. Draw your hand holding a variety of objects

19. Draw your hand against other parts of anatomy (chin, knee, etc.)

20. Draw your bird, cat, dog, fish, snake, leopard, lobster doing

something strange21. Draw what is in the rear-view mirror of your car

22. Draw a dead bird in a beautiful landscape

23. Draw a flower growing next to a turned over garbage can

24. Draw raw chicken parts; cooked parts; after eaten parts

25. Draw a piece of cake and make it look delicious

26. Draw 2 eggs in the shell, fried, over easy

27. Draw one popcorn kernel, draw a bag of popcorn28. Draw a raw steak, steak bones

29. Draw moving water, still water

30. Draw a wet object, make it look wet

31. Draw an object when looking through a tube (microscope)

32. Draw an object seen through glass (how does the glass make a

difference)

33. Draw something floating

34. Draw a dark object in a light environment

35. Draw a dark object in a dark environment

36. Draw the contents of a light room when sitting in a dark room

37. Climb a ladder, draw what is below

38. Climb a mountain (hill), draw what is below

39. Lie on the floor, draw what is eye level

40. Dig a hole, put a whole in the hole, draw what is in the hole

41. Fill in the hole, cover up the whole, draw the covered hole

42. Find a quiet place in a crowd, draw the crowd

43. Find a quiet place, draw the quiet


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44. Find a noisy place, draw noise

45. On the school bus, draw your friends on the way to school, draw

your friends on the way home. Is there a difference?

46. Shine a light through an open weave structure, draw the castshadow

47. Draw an object that is lit by the light coming through mini blinds

48. Draw a portrait that is lit by the light coming through mini blinds

49. Draw an object that is lit by a candle

50. Draw a figure that is lit by a candle

51. Draw your sister/brother by the light cast by the TV or computer

screen52. Draw your father/mother by the light cast from the TV or

computer screen

53. Draw an apple, pear, banana

54. Draw an apple, banana, and a wrench

55. Draw a scoop of ice cream and an old shoe

56. Draw an apple, a vacation photo, a hammer and a gold fish

57. Tighten a C clamp on a banana, draw it

58. Draw an apple, pear, and a banana that is tightly wrapped in

aluminum foil, plastic wrap

59. Draw an apple, pear, and a banana that is tightly wrapped in string

60. Copy the Mona Lisa

61. Rearrange the Mona Lisa to suit yourself

62. Rearrange the Mona Lisa to suit your art teacher

63. Put Mona Lisa in a contemporary setting

64. Copy any work of art older than you

65. Remake the above work of art in your way

66. Make a drawing that says something about the environment


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67. Make a drawing that says something about the world situation

68. Make a drawing that is pure propaganda about any issue you feel

strongly about

69. Make a drawing that is totally truthful70. Make a drawing that lies all over the place

71. Make a drawing that is completely impossible

72. Draw a portrait inside out

73. Draw an apple, pear, banana inside out

74. Look out your bedroom window, draw what you see

75. Look out your bedroom window, draw what you would like to see

76. Draw an apple, pear, banana that is wrapped in an apple, pear,banana

77. Draw a form fitting case made of steel that would fit an apple,

pear, banana

78. Draw two squares of a sidewalk and make it look interesting

79. Make a detailed drawing of five square inches of grass

80. Make a detailed drawing of five square inches of hair

81. Make a detailed drawing of five square inches of a feather

82. Make a detailed drawing of five square inches of a dollar bill

83. Make a drawing of grass, hair, feathers and a dollar bill

84. Draw an insect under a magnifying glass

85. Rearrange, redesign the insect

86. Change the size relationship (scale) of the insect and something

else (i.e. building, ships, cars)

87. Draw a portrait of your best friend as an insect

88. Draw a self portrait of you as a beautiful insect

89. Draw a family insect portrait

90. Copy Copleys Watson and Shark


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91. Change the figures depicted in the Copley painting to people you

know

92. Rearrange Copleys painting Watson and the Shark to work on dry

land93. Crumple a magazine ad, draw it

94. Crumple a photograph, draw it

95. Crumple a drawing, redraw it crumpled

96. Cut out a photo into small pieces, rearrange the photo in some

other order, draw it

97. Make a drawing that looks sticky

98. Make a drawing that oozes99. Make a drawing of a mechanical structure or machine

100. Make a drawing of a machine that oozes

101. Make a drawing of a machine so that the parts are sticky

102. Make a drawing of a fine mechanical instrument (camera) under

water (use your imagination)

103. Draw the Brooklyn Bridge

104. Draw the Brooklyn Bridge over a small body of water i.e. bathtub

105. Draw a form fitted case made of wood and lined with velvet for

an apple, pear, and a banana

106. Draw a chair

107. Draw the concept of the uses of a chair (sitting) without the chair

108. Draw a bed

109. Draw the concept of the uses of a bed without a bed without the

bed

110. Make a drawing that illustrates the phrase I have come to a

juncture in my life

111. Make a drawing that illustrates the phrase There is an


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insufficiency of intellect

112. Make a careful drawing that illustrates the word Haste

113. Draw the imaginary skeleton of an apple, pear, and banana

114. Draw a monument for a bagel115. Draw a photograph of an apple, pear, and banana at an angle

tilted away from you

116. Draw a portrait of you and your friends as cards; the queen, king,

and jack of spades

117. Draw a slice of the best pizza you have ever seen

118. Make a drawing of all your drawing materials

119. Make a detailed drawing of a rock120. Make a drawing at McDonalds

121. Draw the reflection from light bouncing off a motorcycle

122. Draw your portrait from the reflection of a shiny chrome object

i.e. toaster, bowl, spoon

123. Draw the reflection from a body of water

124. Draw the reflection from a store window

125. Draw the reflection of reflection

126. Reflect on your drawing of reflection, draw your retrospection

127. Draw an aerial view of your back yard

128. Draw a transparent object

129. Draw a translucent object

130. Draw a translucent object that is inside a transparent object

131. Draw a translucent apple, pear, and banana

132. Draw a building in which you would like to live

133. Make a drawing using a map of the USA as a motif

134. Make a portrait of yourself as you see yourself in twenty years

135. Make a pastoral drawing


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2. Fix My Ride I have the students draw a car before and after. The

after car being a dream car w/colorful details and

unusual gadgets.

3. 10 ft squirrel ends up in your backyard. Draw what happens next.

4. Design a CD cover for your favorite band.

5. Make a magazine collage about you

6. Design a poster or pamphlet for an important social event.

7. A map to your house.

8. Combine organic and geometric shapes

9. Your eye using a mirror

10. An object placed on a students desk

11. A self-portrait with words

12. A still life of a favorite collection ex: sea shells, match box cars

13. Your house as it looks today, what it looked like in the past and

what it might look like in the future

14. The view out your window

15. Your favorite toy (now or when you were younger)

16. The bottom of your closet

17. The Monsters under your bed!

18. Holiday theme19. Artist/Movements

20. Still life

21. Creative drawing

22. Four puzzle pieces. In each piece draw one part of your face in

detail (eye, ear, nose, lips, eyebrow). You may draw the

same part over again as long as it is at a different angle.

23. Your brain

24. A personal time capsule25. A nightmare

26. A self-portrait

27. A room in your house

28. Your house or bedroom

29. Your personality in expressive line only


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30. Doodles non-stop

31. Whats under your bed

32. Draw as you eat it: draw your snack, eat some, draw it again, repeat

2-3 times until your snack is gone

33. One-point perspective of their bedroom

34. Value study of their hand (no middle finger poses)

35. Design an ad for a movie

36. Someone in the family (can be a pet)

37. You; doing an activity you like to do

38. A junk drawer or closet

39. Value drawing-set up your own still life of all white objects

40. Room with a view-interior view of home, bedroom, etc. looking out

of a window to a dream view.

41. Invent a creature that is part human and part animal, give it a name

and draw it in its habitat

42. Something in your pocket or bookbag-draw it from all/multiple

angles

43. A corner of the room

44. Light bulbs

45. Outside the window46. A houseplant with an abstract background

47. Silverware messed/overlapping still-life

48. A piece of fancy jewelry

49. Figure drawing of a person in action

50. Figure drawing of a person sitting; legs crossed; reading; playing a

musical instrument

51. ABC scavenger huntstudents have to sketch a still life item that

begins with each letter of the alphabet(26 sketches, 13 must have value and shading18 wks to finish)

52. Create a new alphabet

53. Your family tree

54. Illuminated letter(s)

55. Graffiti letters


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56. One word (combine word and meaning to create style)

57. Line doodles

58. Destruction and repair

59. Collages (Landscapes)

60. Likes and dislikes collage

61. Animal most symbolic to you

62. Spotlight (colored pencil) O area in a pencil still life

63. Playing card of self instead of a King or Queen

64. Birds Eye View of subject

65. Pair with another person, make a funny face and draw

66. (3) sketches: candy bar (whole and wrapped), opened and half

eaten, remaining wrapper

67. Hybrid animal ex. Horse/tiger

68. Shoe/clothing design

69. Memory from childhood

70. Scene from a dream you had

71. Re-design the packaging for your favorite food

72. Original Halloween mask

73. Open a drawer and draw what you see

74. Collage on a page: anything having to do with a color of your choice.Use magazine clippings, swatches of fabric, paint,

found object like candy wrappers, tickets, etc.

75. Light/Dark-the moon at night

76. A hero

77. Create a pattern

78. A corner in the room

79. Shoes

80. Small creature outside81. Wrapped candy

82. Zoom in on an object

83. Fill a border or page with doodle

84. Write or pick a poem and write it in the form/shape of an animal

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85. Students clip their completed exercises, then into miniatures

(thumbnails as practice for larger project)

86. Enlarge/abstract a common object (chess piece, paper clip, etc.)

87. A room from various perspectives and then add them all together

88. Dump your laundry in a pile on the floornow draw

89. View as an ant or a bird

90. An alien spaceship landed in your back yarddraw the ship and the

alien

91. Your hand holding anything

92. Design a shoe

93. What will you look like at age 60

94. A new species of animal has been discovereddraw the animal

95. (3) objects with wheels

96. Your favorite food as a monster

97. (3) objects that represent happy memories

98. A car made out of your favorite food

99. Your pet as a human

100. Yourself as a pet

101. The change in your pocket

102. Your cell phone in your hand103. The view outside your bedroom window

104 Your dream car

105. Create a tessellation

106. Your favorite and least favorite veggies arranged on a plate

107. Create a greeting card and the poem for the insert

108. Your favorite tree

109. The laundry pile in the corner of your room

110. First 7 minutes of class are silentstudents are given their foldersand they take out their handmade sketchbook and

work on the posted assignment. Not all assignments are drawing, some

are reflective quick writes or responses to art

ex: objects that roll concentrating on overlapping, quick write of the

posted picture


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111. Art Attacks: students fold an 8 1/2x11 piece of paper 3 times in

half making 8 rectangles and sketch a doodle

everyday theyre in art class. This counts for participation and counts

for 8 points in my grade book. It also tells me

student attendance in class. Reference: Accord Publishing Calendar:

Doodle a Day, Mark Kistlers Draw Squad

112. I use art folders for my 4-6 graders. I collect simple drawings, art

wordfinds, and anything that they can do on their

own. I have a box of paper for the art folders. When they are done with

the class project, they get out their art folder

(which never leaves the room) and work. I keep the folders in labeled

boxes.

113. My middle school students build masks using corrugated

cardboard, found objects, and paper mach Before we

construct, each student must sketch 4 ideas for masks. They focus on

shape and pattern. We look at and discuss actual

mask repros and mask making aesthetics.

114. This is a variation of your question-my 8th graders print fabric and

make their own bound (stabbing) sketchbook.

It has assignment sheets in the front, drawing paper pages and anoaktag envelope pocket in the back.

115. Sketchbook purpose: Authentic Assessment (instead of quarterly

bubble test).

Notes/Visual Imaging-Creative problem solving Vocabulary (Web

Mapsexperimenting and planning with the elements

and principles)art history and artist research Students Free

Drawingsketches of whatever that are later shared, if

desired, with the class.1.67%

2.Abandoned

3.Advertisement

4.Agony


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5.All That I Have

6.Annoyance

7.Antiques

8.Are You Challenging Me?9.Asleep

10.Awake

11.Beautiful

12.Bittersweet

13.Blood

14.Bonds

15.Bored16.Break Away

17.Breaking the Rules

18.Breathe

19.Broken Pieces

20.Bubbles

21.Butterflies

22.Can You Hear Me?

23.Castle

24.Cat (or Dog)

25.Chains

26.Childhood

27.China

28.Colors

29.Creation

30.Cute

31.Danger Ahead

32.Dark


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33.Daybreak

34.Death

35.Decision

36.Deep in Thought37.Desire

38.Do Not Disturb

39.Dreams

40.Drink

41.Drive

42.Drowning

43.Dusk44.Dying

45.Earth

46.Egypt

47.Embrace

48.Expectations

49.Eyes

50.Faces/Figures

51.Fairy Tale

52.Family

53.Famous Painters

54.Fire

55.Fish

56.Flowers

57.Food

58.Foreign

59.Forest

60.Forsaken


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61.Fortitude

62.Freedom

63.Friendship

64.Give Up65.Gray

66.Hand in Hand

67.Happiness

68.Heal

69.Hearts

70.Heaven

71.Hero72.Hold

73.Hold My Hand

74.Home interior design

75.Horror

76.Hot

77.I Can't

78.Illusion

79.Imperfection

80.Impossible

81.In the Storm

82.Innocence

83.Insanity

84.Inspiring words

85.Japan

86.Keeping a Secret

87.Kick in the Head

88.Killing


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89.Kiss

90.Last Hope

91.Laughter

92.Lies93.Life

94.Light

95.Listen

96.Locked

97.Longing

98.Lost

99.Love100.Magic

101.Memory, memories

102.Mirror

103.Mischief Managed

104.Misfortune

105.Misunderstanding

106.Moon and Stars

107.Mother Nature

108.Multitasking

109.Music

110.Nephew/niece

111.Night

112.No Time

113.No Way Out

114.Numbers

115.Oblivion

116.Obsession


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117.Out Cold

118.Pain

119.Paper

120.Path121.Peace

122.Pen and Paper

123.Personality

124.Pet birds

125.Planets

126.Plants

127.Playing the Melody128.Pop art

129.Pottery/Ceramics

130.Prayer

131.Precious Treasure

132.Pride

133.Purpose

134.Puzzle

135.Questioning

136.Rain

137.Rainbow

138.Rated

139.Red

140.Redemption

141.Rejection

142.Relaxation

143.Retro/vintage

144.Reunion


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145.Ribbons

146.Royal

147.Ruins

148.Sacrifice149.Safety First

150.School-life

151.Sea

152.Seeing Red

153.Seeking Solace

154.Shapes

155.Sick156.Silence

157.Simplicity

158.Sky

159.Smile

160.Solitude

161.Sorrow

162.Soul

163.Spiral

164.Sport

165.Standing Still

166.Stars

167.Starvation

168.Stripes

169.Suffer

170.Sun and Clouds

171.Sunset

172.Sweet


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173.Teamwork

174.Tears

175.Test

176.The Past and the Future177.Through the Fire

178.Time

179.Tough Luck

180.Tower

181.Traps

182.Triangle

183.Tropical184.Trouble Lurking

185.Truths

186.Two Roads

187.Understanding

188.Universe

189.Unreachable

190.Unrequited

191.Unspoken

192.Vacation

193.Waiting

194.Water

195.Whimsical faries

196.Will

197.Wind

198.Wish

199.Words

200.Wrath


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1.A new architect has changed the look of the skyline with an

innovative new building. Draw the building.

2.Add a machine to a shape (square, circle, etc.) to create a newinvention.

3.Advanced drapery: towel, shirt, blanket, with lots of wrinkles and

patterns; focusing on shapes of folds and creases and the shadows that

are created by them.

4.Arrange a still life and draw it with shading.

5.Before the dishes are washed, draw them.

6.Bookmarks for the school library .7.Calligrams.

8.Change the figures depicted in a painting (like from Copley, Devinci,

etc.) to people you know .

9.Change the size relationship (scale) of the insect and something else

(i.e. building, ships, cars).

10.Choose an object, draw the side you can't see.

11.Climb a ladder, draw what is below.

12.Climb a mountain (hill), draw what is below.

13.Collect some 'flat' things in nature (leaves, flowers). Make

something with them (like a collage).

14.Combine a plant and an animal to create a new life form.

15.Combine two activities that have not been combined before.

16.Combine two works of art to create a new one, like Chagall with

Botticelli.

17.Compile a file of images from which you can pull inspiration or

reference.

18.Contour line drawings of figures or objects.


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19.Copy any work of art older than you.

20.Copy the Mona Lisa or any other work of art.

21.Create a character based on someone you know. Write a list of

personality traits.22.Create a fantasy building and landscape.

23.Create a graph documenting or measuring something in your life.

24.Create a museum of very small things.

25.Create a new toy.

26.Create a series of drawings of people in motion (playing sports,

doing housework, etc.) Try to overlap several views of the action as it

progresses. Use light sketchy lines; it will help.27.Create a series of positive and negative space designs.

28.Create an image using dots.

29.Create an imaginary alphabet.

30.Create an outdoor room from things you find in nature.

31.Create creatures from actual live animals.

32.Create instruction for a simple everyday task.

33.Crumple a drawing, redraw it crumpled.

34.Crumple a magazine ad, draw it.

35.Crumple a photograph, draw it.

36.Cut a random shape out of several layers of a magazine. Make a

collage out of the results.

37.Cut out a photo into small pieces, rearrange the photo in some other

order, draw it.

38.Darw a fine mechanical instrument (camera) under water (use your

imagination).

39.Design a CD cover for a musical group (no pot leaves, conventional,

unoriginal, violent or sexual imagery).


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40.Design a costume for 2090.

41.Design a costume for another era (medieval, egyptian, etc.).

42.Design a new license plate for your car.

43.Design a new map.44.Design a school desk .

45.Design a tattoo for someone particular (a celebrity, a teacher, a

firiend, etc.).

46.Design an ad for your favorite music.

47.Design an advertisement for yourself.

48.Design an advertisement poster of your favorite movie.

49.Design new methods of transportation.50.Dig a hole, put an object in the hole, draw what is in the hole.

51.Do 3 drawings at different speeds.

52.Do a morning collage.

53.Do a self portrait. This can be full body view or face only.

54.Do a temporary art installation using a pad of post it notes & a pen.

55.Drape a mysterious object in cloth, draw it.

56.Draw 10 of your habits.

57.Draw 10 tings you would like to do every day.

58.Draw 100 uses for a tin can.

59.Draw 2 eggs in the shell, fried, over easy.

60.Draw 3 unlikely objects together.

61.Draw a "fantasy" house.

62.Draw a "how to" poster.

63.Draw a bed.

64.Draw a bowl of fruit, shade it.

65.Draw a bridge.

66.Draw a bubble.


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67.Draw a building in which you would like to live.

68.Draw a chair.

69.Draw a city on another planet.

70.Draw a comic strip with your own characters.71.Draw a construction site.

72.Draw a dark object in a dark environment.

73.Draw a dark object in a light environment.

74.Draw a dead bird in a beautiful landscape.

75.Draw a detailed drawing of a nut and bolt .

76.Draw a family insect portrait.

77.Draw a family member by the light cast from the TV or computerscreen.

78.Draw a figure in an environment from your observation (in motion,

and standing still).

79.Draw a flower growing next to a turned over garbage can.

80.Draw a flower, make it appear dangerous.

81.Draw a form fitted case made of wood and lined with velvet for an

apple, pear, and a banana.

82.Draw a form fitting case made of steel that would fit an apple, pear

and a banana.

83.Draw a grouping of leaves.

84.Draw a house built underground.

85.Draw a kid wearing a big hat.

86.Draw a landscape from observation. Remember to show foreground,

middle ground, and background.

87.Draw a large jar and fill it up with something (candy, toys, rock, etc.)

.

88.Draw a leaf.


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89.Draw a logo for a t.v. show.

90.Draw a lost dog.

91.Draw a machine so that the parts are sticky.

92.Draw a machine that oozes.93.Draw a man made object.

94.Draw a man wearing a big hat.

95.Draw a map of everywhere you went in one day.

96.Draw a map of the creases on your hand, (knuckles, palm).

97.Draw a map of your country as a motif.

98.Draw a map of your favorite sitting spots in your town/city.

99.Draw a masked man (not a super hero).100.Draw a meal based on a color theme. (i.e. all white).

101.Draw a mechanical object.

102.Draw a medal for yourself. It must be designed for the thing you do

best.

103.Draw a metallic object and everything you see in it.

104.Draw a mini book based on the theme, "my grocery list".

105.Draw a mirror and all it reflects.

106.Draw a modern house which would still look good in a

neighborhood with older houses.

107.Draw a monument for a bagel.

108.Draw a moving object.

109.Draw a mysterious doorway or staircase.

110.Draw a necktie and design an interesting pattern on it.

111.Draw a new piece of sculpture for the museum's sculpture garden.

112.Draw a parade.

113.Draw a pastoral theme.

114.Draw a person looking in a window.


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115.Draw a person looking out a window.

116.Draw a person playing with a mucial instrument.

117.Draw a person reading a letter.

118.Draw a photograph of an apple, pear, and banana at an angle tiltedaway from you.

119.Draw a picture. Cut your pictures into squares. Paste them into a

new design.

120.Draw a picture. Fold your picture into a fan. Cut little shapes out of

the fan (like cutting snowflakes). Open the picture up and glue onto

a second sheet.

121.Draw a piece of cake and make it look delicious.122.Draw a piece of furniture and use color to show the textures and

shadows.

123.Draw a pile of bicycles on the sidewalk.

124.Draw a pile of laundry waiting to get washed.

125.Draw a place you lived.

126.Draw a plant with as much detail as possible using line contour and

line variation.

127.Draw a portrait inside out.

128.Draw a portrait of you and your friends as cards; the queen, king,

and jack of spades.

129.Draw a portrait of your best friend as an insect.

130.Draw a portrait using light and shadow (place the light from

different angles than "normal": under the chin, behind the head, in

front of the face).

131.Draw a postcard that has some kind of activity on it.

132.Draw a pure propaganda about any issue you feel strongly about.

133.Draw a raw steak, steak bones.


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134.Draw a sandcastle.

135.Draw a scene from your early childhood.

136.Draw a scene on another planet and include another kind of being.

137.Draw a scene that depicts peace.138.Draw a scientist's top secret project.

139.Draw a scoop of ice cream and an old shoe.

140.Draw a series of animals in motion.

141.Draw a sleeping person.

142.Draw a slice of the best pizza you have ever taste.

143.Draw a still life with one to three pieces of patterned cloth in it.

Show color and patterns.144.Draw a super hero.

145.Draw a tennis shoe.

146.Draw a translucent object that is inside a transparent object.

147.Draw a translucent object.

148.Draw a transparent object.

149.Draw a vase and a beautiful arrangement of flowers.

150.Draw a view of the jungle.

151.Draw a wet object, make it look wet.

152.Draw a woman wearing a big hat.

153.Draw all of the things in your purse/bag/pocket.

154.Draw all your drawing materials.

155.Draw an aerial view of your back yard.

156.Draw an apple, a vacation photo, a hammer and a gold fish.

157.Draw an apple, banana, and a wrench.

158.Draw an apple, pear, and a banana in outer space.

159.Draw an apple, pear, and a banana inside out.

160.Draw an apple, pear, and a banana that is tightly wrapped in


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aluminum foil, plastic wrap.

161.Draw an apple, pear, and a banana that is tightly wrapped in string.

162.Draw an apple, pear, and a banana that is wrapped in an apple,

pear, banana.163.Draw an apple, pear, and a banana.

164.Draw an emotion; sad and dark, happy and colorful, etc

165.Draw an empty room, make it interesting.

166.Draw an idea that came into your head by thinking of food.

167.Draw an idea that came into your head through your ears.

168.Draw an idea that came into your head through your feet.

169.Draw an idea that came into your head through your fingers.170.Draw an ideal wedding ceremony.

171.Draw an illuminated letter for your best friend.

172.Draw an imaginary place with details.

173.Draw an insect under a magnifying glass.

174.Draw an interior of something (once, a student did the inside of a

jar of peanut butter).

175.Draw an object melting.

176.Draw an object of interest from 3 different views.

177.Draw an object or a portrait that is lit by the light coming through

mini blinds.

178.Draw an object seen through glass (how does the glass make a

difference).

179.Draw an object that is lit by a candle.

180.Draw an object when looking through a tube (microscope) or a

magnifying glass .

181.Draw an object with a surface texture.

182.Draw an objet as if it has an emotion. Modify it's shape and it's


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color enough to show the emotion.

183.Draw bottles and cans.

184.Draw dishes in a drainer, with shading.

185.Draw everything you can see from where you are positioned: thiscan be from imagination, like if you were in a hot air balloon, ant sized,

etc.

186.Draw fables and fairy tales.

187.Draw family members with things that they cherish.

188.Draw how you would be if you were the last person on earth.

189.Draw life in the city.

190.Draw moving water, still water.191.Draw mythological interpretations.

192.Draw old-fashioned puppets.

193.Draw one object for twenty minutes.

194.Draw or design any kind of vehicle.

195.Draw part of a vehicle.

196.Draw part of any object (mystery draw).

197.Draw people, things, or animals in motion.

198.Draw popcorn.

199.Draw raw chicken parts; cooked parts; after eaten parts.

200.Draw several studies of your eyes, nose, and mouth in a variety of

positions and poses.

201.Draw someone you would like to kiss (your boyfriend, a baby, your

cat, etc.).

202.Draw someone you would like to visit.

203.Draw something floating.

204.Draw something not pretty.

205.Draw something you might find in a department store display.


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206.Draw studies of your hands. Try a variety of positions, overlapping

them or holding something.

207.Draw the boat you would like to travel in around the world.

208.Draw the concept of the uses of a bed without a bed without thebed.

209.Draw the concept of the uses of a chair (sitting) without the chair.

210.Draw the contents of a light room when sitting in a dark room.

211.Draw the contents of a trash can.

212.Draw the contents of your desk drawer.

213.Draw the contents of your garage.

214.Draw the contents of your medicine chest.215.Draw the contents of your refrigerator.

216.Draw the guests at your parents dinner party.

217.Draw the imaginary skeleton of an apple, pear, and banana.

218.Draw the individual items of your favorite outfit.

219.Draw the inside of a mechanical object.

220.Draw the inside of your closet.

221.Draw the inside of your stomach and the food in it after a big meal.

222.Draw the interior of your room and what's in it, from the floor, the

bed or the ceiling (looking down).

223.Draw the internal organs of the body.

224.Draw the outline of an object without looking at the page (contour

drawing).

225.Draw the perfect garden for your house.

226.Draw the reflection from a body of water.

227.Draw the reflection from a store window.

228.Draw the reflection from light bouncing off a motorcycle.

229.Draw the same object every day for a week.


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230.Draw the same object using different artistic movements (cubism,

impressionnism, fauvism, etc.).

231.Draw the smells in your neighborhood.

232.Draw the trail of an imaginary insect.233.Draw the word as the shape of the object, such as the word apple

in the shape of an apple, or apples spelling out the word.

234.Draw the world from the point of view of a frog/toad.

235.Draw things that close.

236.Draw things that come from eggs.

237.Draw things that float.

238.Draw things that make noise and illustrate the sound.239.Draw things with a flavor.

240.Draw tools used in certain professions.

241.Draw two squares of a sidewalk and make it look interesting.

242.Draw using 1 point perspective.

243.Draw using 2 points perspective.

244.Draw using 3 points perspective.

245.Draw what a spaceship commander would see on his video screen.

246.Draw what is in the rear-view mirror of your car.

247.Draw what you think a garden would look like from the view of an

insect.

248.Draw where you would like to fly to.

249.Draw with as much rich detail as possible: if you were awakened by

a crash in the middle of the night; what would it be from?

250.Draw your "dream car".

251.Draw your best friend or your lover.

252.Draw your bike.

253.Draw your bird, cat, dog, fish, snake, leopard, lobster doing


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something strange.

254.Draw your birthday wish list.

255.Draw your dads work table after hes worked on a project.

256.Draw your dinner.257.Draw your dream room.

258.Draw your favorite animal with a human face.

259.Draw your favorite snack food.

260.Draw your favorite song.

261.Draw your favorite tree.

262.Draw your foot (with or without socks or shoe) in different

positions and points of view.263.Draw your friend shooting hoops in the driveway.

264.Draw your greatest fear; your biggest hope, or your dream for your

future.

265.Draw your hand against other parts of anatomy (chin, knee, etc.).

266.Draw your home and what's around it.

267.Draw your house on another landspape, country or planet.

268.Draw your idea of Hell.

269.Draw your idea of Paradise.

270.Draw your own game board.

271.Draw your room just before you clean it.

272.Draw your view from an airplane window.

273.Draw yourself 50 years from now; including your surroundings,

possessions, etc.

274.Draw yourself as a beautiful insect.

275.Draw yourself as a robot.

276.Draw yourself dressed in clothing from the 1970's.

277.Draw yourself from the reflection of a shiny chrome object


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(toaster, bowl, spoon).

278.Draw yourself if you grew flowers instead of hair.

279.Draw yourself if you were the tallest person in the world.

280.Draw yourself in a mirror.281.Draw yourself in a mood.

282.Draw yourself in the style of your favorite artist.

283.Draw yourself painting your toenails (if you do).

284.Draw yourself the way you will look 20 years from now.

285.Draw yourself using a strong light on one side or angle of your face,

focusing on the shapes of the shadows of your facial features.

286.Draw yourself with wings.287.Drawa mechanical structure or machine.

288.Expose yourself to a new artist, (in a gallery, a book.) Draw what he

inspires you.

289.Fill a page with 2D forms and pick a direction for the light to hit

them from. Shade accordingly.

290.Fill an entire page with small circles. Add colors and textures.

291.Find a photo of a person you do not know. Write a brief bio about

him/her.

292.Find a photo. Alter it by drawing over it.

293.Find a piece of poetry you respond to. Rewrite it and glue it into

your journal. Decorate.

294.Find a quiet place in a crowd, draw the crowd.

295.Find a quiet place, draw the quiet.

296.Find several color combinations you respond to in public.

Document them using swatches, write where you found them. Draw

something using those colors.

297.For one week collect items you find on the street. Create a


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sculpture with them.

298.Go for a walk. Draw or list things you find on the the sidewalk.

299.Hang found objects on tree branches.

300.If animals could draw, what would their artwork look like? Drawtheir artwork.

301.If you have an octopus for a furnace? Draw it.

302.Illustrate "the way things were".

303.Illustrate a famous saying/quotation.

304.Illustrate a favorite story of yours told by a grandparent; uncle, or

other relative.

305.Illustrate the concept of "simplicity".306.Illustrate words such as up, upside down, apart, crazy, sane, etc.

(see the firt list).

307.Illustrate your favorite poem.

308.Illustrate your grocery list.

309.Illustrates the phrase I have come to a juncture in my life.

310.Illustrates the phrase There is an insufficiency of intellect.

311.Lie on the floor, draw what is at your eye level.

312.Listen a song and draw what comes to your mind. Try different kind

of music and rythms.

313.Look out your bedroom window, draw what you see.

314.Look out your bedroom window, draw what you would like to see.

315.Make a careful drawing that illustrates the word Haste.

316.Make a design using your address.

317.Make a detailed drawing of a rock.

318.Make a detailed drawing of five square inches of a dollar bill.

319.Make a detailed drawing of five square inches of a feather.

320.Make a detailed drawing of five square inches of grass.


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321.Make a detailed drawing of five square inches of hair.

322.Make a drawing at a restorant.

323.Make a drawing that is completely impossible.

324.Make a drawing that is totally truthful.325.Make a drawing that lies all over the place.

326.Make a drawing that looks sticky.

327.Make a drawing that oozes.

328.Make a drawing that says something about the environment.

329.Make a drawing that says something about the world situation.

330.Make a painting using tools from the bathroom.

331.Make a puppet.332.Make a useful item using only paper & tape.

333.Make pencil rubbings of six different surfaces.

334.Make prints using food. (fruit and vegetables cut in half, fish, etc.).

335.On the school bus, draw your friends on the way to school, then on

the way home. Is there a difference?

336.Physically alter a page. (cut a hole, pour tea on it, burn it, fold it,

etc.). Then draw on it, using the alteration.

337.Pick a room in your home then draw items in that room.

338.Put a small object in your left pocket (or in a bag), put your left

hand in the pocket. Draw it by feel.

339.Put Mona Lisa in a contemporary setting. You can use any other old

work of art.

340.Rearrange the Mona Lisa or any other work of art to suit yourself.

341.Rearrange, redesign an insect.

342.Reflect on your drawing of reflection, draw your retrospection.

343.Research a celebration or ritual from another culture. Draw it.

344.Scribble with a pencil. Then find an animal in all the lines you did


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(chnage de side of the page, if needed). Color it.

345.Scrible and then try to make something out of the mess.

346.Shine a light through an open weave structure, draw the cast

shadow.347.Spend a day drawing only red things. Change the color the next

day.

348.Take a song and try to draw the visual image you have of it.

349.Take a work of art (like the The Raft of the Mduse) and draw what

happen before or after the event shown.

350.Take any one of the ideas you have already drawn and redesign it.

351.Take the description of a character, object, monsters, etc. from anovel and draw how you see it.

352.Think of the four seasons and draw what comes to mind for each

season.

353.Trace your footsteps with chalk. Then, draw a pattern in each

footsteps.

354.Transform an object from a realistic view to a Cubist

representation (using several different view points within the same

frame) in a progression of 4 steps.

355.Transform some garbage.

356.Try a new meme .

357.Using a grid, collect various textures from magazine and play them

off of each other.

358.Using color (no black) and light (white) create a Impressionist style

landscape drawing (remembering to optically mix colors by placing

compliments next to each other).

359.What would you see through a key hole?


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