Drawing Ideas by Audience: For Yourself, for Kids, for Someone Else

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• Things to Draw When Bored240 ideas that need one pen, any paper and no reference, each with a time, sorted for class, for two people, cute or cool. A rabbit peeking over the bottom edge of the page
• Cute Things to Draw for Your Boyfriend, Girlfriend or Crush89 gift drawings for a partner or a crush, worded for anyone, each with a note on how to lay it out on a card. A stack of sticky notes with one drawing on each
• Drawing Prompts for Kids153 prompts in child-friendly words for ages 2 to 12, sorted by age, each with a question that gets the pencil moving.
• Drawing Ideas for PreschoolersRead-aloud drawing ideas for ages three to six, grouped by the mark a child practices, each with a starter question.
• Travel Sketching Ideas72 travel sketches sorted by where you are: on the way, where you stay, streets, food and markets, small things you carry and views. A bicycle rack by a canal
• Drawing Ideas for Teens122 briefs for ages 13 to 17, each with a time and the skill it stretches: design jobs, self-portraits, sketchbook pages, art class studies and group games.
• Kids Art Club Ideas90 sessions for a school art club: elementary, middle and high school, first meetings, whole-club projects and service, each with what it needs. Flip books on sticky-note pads, traded and flipped at the end
• Things to Draw for Your Principal's BirthdayCard and picture ideas for a school principal: birthday, a card from the whole class, thank you and goodbye, with a layout and, for most, the words.
• Art Collab Ideas84 ways for two or more people to make one piece: pairs, groups, by message, pass-it-on formats, shared prompts, big pieces and art trades.
• One Hour Art Projects for Adults60 art projects for grown-ups that fit an hour: paint, print and stamp, paper and collage, drawing and air-dry clay, each with its materials. A collage postcard from magazine colours
• Things to Draw for Art Class72 art class drawing ideas sorted by element: line, shape, value and form, texture, colour and space, each with how to start. A cardboard box on the floor in two-point perspective
• Things to Draw for Your Teacher85 thank-you drawings for a teacher: apple and pencil characters, subject puns, classroom pets and end-of-year cards, each with a layout.
• Art Portfolio Ideas72 pieces to make for an art portfolio, sorted by what each one shows: looking, people, a series, process pages, a second medium, easy starts.
• Things to Draw for Your Best Friend60 drawings to give a friend: inside jokes, matching halves, birthday and cheer-up cards and keepsakes, each with a note on the layout. A good-luck card with a four-leaf clover
• Community Art Ideas75 projects where many hands each add one part: murals and walls, many small pieces, streets and downtown, with children, one afternoon.
• Family Art Project Ideas78 projects for one household at one table, each saying who does which part: the youngest, an older child and an adult.
• Drawing Present Ideas to Make and GiveDrawings to make and give, sorted by what they show: their place, their people and pets, their things, things to use and quick ones.
• Things to Draw on a Card60 card designs for thank you, get well, well done, a new baby or home, and miss you, each with what goes on the front and inside. A cat curled under a blanket with a thermometer
• Cute Things to Draw for Your Sister48 drawings to give a sister or a brother: for a little sister, for a big sister, for a brother and the two of you together, each with a note on the layout.
• Things to Draw for Your GrandmaDrawings to make for a grandmother: the two of you, her things, cards and drawings to mail, each with a note on the layout.
• Things to Draw That Start With A60 things to draw whose names start with A: animals, food, things, places and people, each with the shapes to draw. Apple balanced on top of a stack of books
• Things to Draw That Start With EThings to draw whose names start with E: animals, food, things, places and people, each with the shapes to draw.
• Things to Draw That Start With PThings to draw whose names start with P: animals, food, things, places and people, each with the shapes to draw. Parrot perched on a swing · Puffin holding three small fish · Painter on a ladder with a roller
• Drawing Prompts for Adults120 prompts for a grown-up sketchbook: memory, slow observation, patterns, street sketching and 20-minute evenings, each with a time.