Drawing Ideas
Lists of things to draw sorted by style, subject, season, surface and medium, from ten-minute beginner subjects with their basic shapes to charcoal studies and pavement chalk. Each page deals one idea or three at a press and prints its whole list underneath, so you can also read it top to bottom.
501 pages
Collections 13
- Animation and Comic Ideas Small Enough to Finish The usual way an animation or a comic stalls is an idea that was too big. 18
- Art and Craft Ideas by Age Who is making it decides what is worth making. 6
- Color Harmony Schemes: Palettes Worked Out From the Wheel Each page takes one rule of the color wheel and works it out for every hue of the painter's wheel, as swatches with hex codes to copy. 4
- Doodles by Subject You know what you want to doodle (a cat, a star, a border round a page) and you want more than one way to do it. 10
- Drawing Ideas by Audience: For Yourself, for Kids, for Someone Else Sometimes the question is not what to draw but who it is for, or what kind of moment you are in. 24
- Drawing Ideas by Subject: Animals, People, Food, Flowers and More You have picked the territory (animals, faces, food, flowers, space) and now you need one specific thing inside it. 130
- Drawing Ideas by Surface and Medium A skin-safe marker and the back of your hand. 127
- Drawing Ideas for a Theme Word A theme word is the hardest kind of brief. 15
- History Drawing Ideas for a School Project The assignment says draw it: a cartoon about mercantilism, a poster on the First Amendment, a scene from the French Revolution. 26
- Printable Drawing Worksheets Each worksheet here is drawn by code when you press New sheet, so no two prints are the same. 11
- Science Comic Strip Ideas The assignment says: explain it as a comic strip. 16
- Seasonal Drawing Ideas: What to Draw for Each Holiday A date is coming up and you need something to draw for it: a card front, a classroom door, a sketchbook page that feels like the month outside. 72
- Things to Draw, Sorted by Style, Mood and Difficulty You already know the feeling you want on the page, whether that is cute, scary, funny or quietly pretty, and you need a subject that carries it. 58