Sketchbook Prompts

Choose from the sketchbook prompts below, complete 1-page every day. Spend the entire class period working on ONE prompt / sketchbook page. Try to use ONE sheet of paper per day. You can use any media & materials. You are encouraged to explore and interpret the prompts in your own way. The images are a guide and not meant to be copied.

Label each page.

Day 1 of Daily Sketchbook: Choose 1-2

#1 Favorites:

Create a sketchbook pages of all your favorite things!

#2 In the round

Using your compass make 8 circles that are about 5 inches in diameter. Use your imagination and turn your circles in complex circular things! Try to thing beyond the obvious!

#3 Keyhole Imagination

You look through a magic keyhole in door to your imagination, what do you see?

This could also be a window, porthole, picture frame.

#4 Media Practice

Don't try to make anything, just practice mark making, texture, value and layering. Make little boxes or work all over the page. Label your work and what you're doing.

Try watercolor color schemes. Add pen & colored pencil over dry watercolor. Use crayons, markers and any supplies you have. Again, don't make a picture, just practice!

Click to see pinterest board of sketchbooks.

Prompts For Artist's Choice

SillY Drawing Prompts!

You can use this 100 Silly Drawing Prompts List for any month's artist choice. This challenge is focused on improving skill and developing positive drawing habits. The prompts are meant to be silly and wacky so use your imagination, combined with your drawing skills to make interesting images!

You can use SILLY DRAWING PROMPTS LIST LABEL YOUR WORK!

100SillyDrawingPrompts1.pdf

Day 2 of Daily Sketchbook: Choose 1-2

#1 Incorporate an object

Using an object cut from a magazine, select one object to cut out and draw around, incorporating in a new way.

#2 Shoes

Drawing from life. Draw 3 shoes. Set up shoes one by one or a pile of shoes to draw. Use contour line to get the outside edge and add the details.

#3 Pop & Candy

Drawing from life, Draw images of a pop can OR candy. Working on form drawing & value to create realism.

Idea:! Stages, Full can to crushed, Full candy to Bites out.

# 4 PUMPKIN PIE

Follow along with the video above to draw & color a slice of pumpkin pie!!!

#6 Compass & Ruler Color Scheme

Create an abstract drawing using your compass & ruler creating circles & lines. Using a marker blacken in 1/3 of the shapes and use the color scheme of your choice.

Complementary |Split-Complementary | Color Triad

Monochromatic | Analogous

Outline or render (shade) with value.

Bonus

INKTOBER PROMPTS:

These can be any day of the week. Don't just draw the word...how can you incorporate the work or interpret into your drawing.

Day 3 of Daily Sketchbook: Choose 1-2

#1 Hand Drawn hands

Draw & shade your hand holding an object. Tip: Close one eye to visually flatten your hand. Your hand must be holding an object or in a pose, it cannot be flat!

DO NOT TRACE YOUR HAND

#2 It’s your show:

Create 2-3 characters from your imaginary animated series. MAKE IT YOURS!! Use any style that you like to draw. Cartoony, Manga, Anime, "Disney" inspired, realistic, fantasy, the list goes on! Try not to duplicate or "copy", you can be inspired and still make it your own!

Show lots of details!

#3 Food:

Food from the Day. A meal. All the snacks. Just draw food. Can be from life.

#4 Botanical Drawings:

Use photographs or real life & draw a composition of plants and /or flowers.

Nature Journal Link

CLICK THE IMAGE FOR PINTEREST BOARD OF EXAMPLES!

Day 4 of Daily Sketchbook: Choose 1-2

#1 Comic Book:

Create a 5 window comic book page or comic strip with your own characters.

#2 Pet Portrait:

Draw from Life or photo. Draw realistically or Stylized. Draw one large image or several small poses. Whatever style you choose, make it detailed; add shading, ect.

#3 Art Journal:

Create a page using art journaling techniques. Lots of layers. Collage, paint, stencil, drawing, quote/Text. No Acrylic paint.

#4 Not Alike

One of These Things is not like the Other. Set up a small still life using two objects that are related and one that is not.

Think! Strange combinations. A hammer next to glassware. A cleaning product next to fruit. A stack of books next to a power tool.

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