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Drawing Prompts

• Go through the alphabet and draw something for every letter until you get bored.
• Have someone scribble on a piece of paper, and then you must try and create a picture from it.
• Think of 2 different animals. If they had a baby, what would it look like? What would you call it?
• Draw a monster which you would imagine living in a deep, dark cave, or another spooky setting. Then draw this animals predator - or what it eats to survive.
• If you were asked to design a castle for the middle of urban London, what would it look like?
• Re-design the Darleks (from Doctor Who) to make them more dangerous.
• Draw a giant, human-eating plant.
• Draw 5 completely different pairs of shoes.
• What do you think the Loch Ness monster would look like?
• Design a hat worthy of Lady Gaga.
• If you owned a country, what would your flag look like?
• Draw a household object using the hand you don't normally draw with. Then draw it again with your writing hand, but without taking the pen off the paper.
• Draw someone's face whilst only looking at the person's face, not at the page AT ALL!
• Pick a random word from the dictionary and write it out in either 'Las Vegas' style lettering, a spooky font, a chunky font with a spiky metal texture, a cute and fluffy style or as if the word were made of ice.
• Draw an ornate frame around your page. Draw or paint some 'modern art', or cut out a magazine photo to go inside.
• Draw a washing line with clothes and underwear hanging from it.
• Draw a stick man holding a pile of random objects, so that they go upto the top of the page. You can draw a mix of things from books and wellington boots, to anvils and suitcases.
• You could go to the Illustration Friday website and create a drawing based on the 'word of the week'.
• Type a colour like 'pink' into Google images and use the results to either copy or give you ideas about what to draw.
• Draw a city skyline at night with skyscraper silhouettes and lit-up windows.
• Get the board game 'Pictionary' and use the cards included to tell you what to draw. Limit yourself to 10 minutes or similar for each drawing.
• Illustrate the letters of the alphabet.
• Draw the back of a spoon to give you practice with reflections.
• Draw your non-drawing hand or your feet.
• Trace lines from photographs to make cool line drawings - a nice idea to get you drawing without fear of mistakes. Go here for a computer-based tutorial to show you the idea.
• Draw a selection of your own, or someone else's, favourite books - like the drawings shown on this blog.
• Draw a bird every day for a month. They can take 5 minutes or an hour, be a doodle or a painting, a cartoon, a fantastical creature or a realistic drawing - it's up to you!
  You could do the same for all kind of things such as fish, musical instruments, bugs, monsters, trees, flowers, hats, eye glasses, vehicles/modes of transport, favourite foods etc.
  Do each drawing on a separate piece of paper and at the end of the month, bind them all together in a booklet, or display them on your wall as a montage.
• 2 children are trying to sneak into a building without being recognised as children. What disguise are they wearing....fake beards, trench coats, giant platform shoes?!