Look at these drawing prompts. If a concept resonates with you, begin sketching.
These art prompts are intended to help break a creative block. Looking at a list of random things to draw can help disrupt your mind and get ideas flowing.
A black cat is staring out the window at birds in the yard. The cat's tail is slowly flicking back and forth.
What is she looking at...A lion, walking through tall grass.
A sheep dog is herding sheep on a hilly field in a foggy landscape.
Imagine a rocky coastline during a winter storm, waves battering the shore, wind whipping the water into foam.
Create a pattern in your mark making. Remember to turn your surface 180-degrees periodically and continue working. Place a few drops of ink or paint on your surface, squirt water and let drip. Add values. Use alternate materials like chalk or oil pastel. Create symbolism within your work.
Start a music playlist. Listen to music as you create.
Using Symbolism:
Add some vintage ephemera to your work.
Remove a portion of your work. Paint over it.
Scratch into the work with a tool.
Do you have a symbol that you identify with? Add it.
Add droplets of ink.
Turn your surface 180-degrees.
Push back parts of the work by smudging.
Add words to your surface.
Remove one or more elements.
Add marks of any kind.
Add images (photos, photocopies, magazine cut-outs)
Fill areas using with patterns.
Add paint, block out areas with gesso.
Add ink using gel pens.
Add writing.
Marta Cortese
Mandy Pattullo Textile Artist
Unknown
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Jiří Anderle（Czech, b.1936） Vanitas III 1983 Drypoint, Print, Soft Ground Etching
Look at the Anderle fully fleshed out drawing as a soft - ground etching above. How may this etching have started as a sketch?