Leola Drawing-a-Day Challenge

Artists create drawings to express, record, and develop their ideas. Artists draw what they see, what they remember, and what they imagine. Artists draw to practice and improve their skills.

Leola artists, here is your challenge:

Can you create one or more drawings a day?

Use any paper and drawing materials you have available. Draw what you see, imagine, remember. Draw rough sketches. Draw completed, detailed drawings. Draw every day! Remember, practice makes drawing skills improve! Keep your drawings in a portfolio or folder. If you have a sketchbook, fill it with drawings. Display your drawings for all to enjoy.

Choose ideas from this list or use your own ideas. Draw some of the ideas on the list or draw them all!

Draw what you see:

Draw a shoe

Draw a desk lamp or light

Draw a purse, wallet or bag

Draw your mug or cup

Draw your bed

Draw your favorite toy

Draw a jar, bottle or can from the kitchen

Draw your watch or a piece of jewelry

Draw a bit of “organized chaos” – your messy desk or table stacked with books

Draw your hand or hands or draw someone else’s hands

Draw a portrait of yourself or someone else

Draw your glasses or sunglasses

Draw what you had for dinner

Draw your telephone (landline or cell)

Draw what you see in the morning when you get up

Draw a tree or trees with leaves or branches

Draw a favorite tool

Draw a musical instrument

Draw the view from a window of your home

Draw something you have made

Draw a piece of clothing

Draw something old, antique or vintage

Draw a piece of fruit

Draw your foot

Draw a glass (the kind you drink from)

Draw anything you like

Draw a vegetable

Draw an open book or anything you want

Draw an appliance (microwave, stove, oven or the like)

Draw something architectural

Draw a chair or another piece of furniture

Draw something you collect

Draw something from an unusual point of view – lay on your back outside and draw the sky or trees, or lay on the floor in your house and draw the view from there.

Draw a series or group of related drawings. For example, draw something to eat. Take a bite and draw it again. Take another bite and draw it again. Eat almost all of the food and then draw it again.

Draw from your imagination:

Draw something you have dreamed

Draw a memory

Draw a dragon

Draw an idea for a new invention

Draw like an architect and draw a building or house

Draw a like a fashion designer and draw a new style of clothing

Draw an imaginary creature with lots of legs and eyes

Draw an imaginary place

Draw a person or character from your imagination

Draw a comic strip or a graphic novel

Draw some keys the way they actually look. Then imagine they are something else like fish and draw what you imagine.

Doodle – Start by drawing a line or shape and just keep adding to the drawing.

Drawing Ideas from Shel Silverstein’s book, Draw a Skinny Elephant. Shel Silverstein is an author, poet, and illustrator.

“Draw a skinny elephant”

“Draw a blue Baboon”

“Draw a dog with seven tails trying to catch the moon”

“Draw two hippo ballerinas dancing on their toes”

“Draw a tiny gerbil with a twenty-four-foot nose”

“Draw a shark in a bikini sunning on the beach”

“Draw a worm who just ate up a ninety-pound peach”

“Draw a hungry snake on the jungle gym calling the kids to come up and play”

“Draw your room turned upside-down so the ceiling is the floor”

“Draw something that you’ve never seen before”