More Sketching Ideas Prompts

Even more sketching ideas act as a marinade to juicing up your creative practice. What's in the toolkit: thousands of concepts on three pages from thirty prompts.

Try sketching these ...

• Don't stop. Keep moving your pencil and hand over the paper no matter what. Don't let you pencil stop for a full twenty minutes.


• Don't lie. Don't sketch what you think you ought to sketch.


• Don't think. Don't analyze, evaluate, criticize or calculate.


• Go shopping. Sit on a chair at the store or mall and sketch something someone dropped on the floor.


• Pick two odd things to sketch together like lollipops and mustard.


• Sticky fingers.


• A sore throat lozenge for a giraffe to scale.


• Using a human subject express the quality of friskiness.


• Do two sketches: each of a boy crying. Experiment by changing the light and shadows.


• If you need anything, just whistle.

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