Whats Something I Should Draw?

I'm listing categories & when you choose individual items from these categories, your list will become Huge ;-))) Moreover, you can choose from various categories to make your drawing tell a "story".

- the sky [ day & night sky] -- sun, moon, clouds, stars, ......

- the elements - rain, fire, water, land, ....

- beaches - sand, oceans, surfers, shells, driftwood, tides, ...

- aquatic life - algae, whales, sharks, octopus, coral reefs, deep-sea divers, ....

- islands, boats, ships, nets, trawlers, anglers, ....

- still-life -- any & all objects at home, using different light sources & perspectives, shadows & reflections

- yourself, friends & family - portraits, caricatures, ....

- nature from your window -- trees, neighborhood, lawns, birds, ....

- animals, including pets

- birds

- plants, trees, flowers, bees & butterflies.....

- humans performing various activities – series of dancers eg.

- transport systems - bus, car, train, plane, spaceship, UFO, ....

- architectural marvels, buildings, sheds, ....

- dreams & fantasies

- mythical & mythological forms/creatures

- mountains, rivers, landscapes, .....

- anatomy

the list can go on & on ;-)

you can change the same sketch by

- drawing close-ups, or 'long-shots'

- drawing realistically, in cartoon form or as fantasy forms

- changing the light source, direction & intensity, including night-time

- drawing only outlines or including shading & shadows [2-D v/s 3-D effect]

- using different types of pencils, charcoal, ..... &/or colors - water, oil, acrylic, crayons, pencils, glitter, glass paints, mosaic-work,....

- changing the perspective & angle

- using surrealism, cubism, abstract forms... ....

may be you can go wild ;-)) use diff techniques & media - including pastels, crayons, oils, cut-n-paste, mosaic, cartoon-drawing, symbolism, etc....

- check out old greeting cards, magazines, net images, comic books, etc. to get some ideas. use these ideas to create your own drawing.

- you could make a 'series' of any one thing. different ways of going about it :

eg. flowers - have 15 different types of flowers in the 15 drawings;

or, have the same flower [eg. rose] but depicted in different ways - eg. in close-up, in a garden, with a bee humming over it, as a bouquet, in a dried-petal arrangement [glued] along with dried leaves/herbs, & so on;

or, each life-stage of a flower;

or you could change the light source, light intensity, colors [from black n white to monochrome to multicolored]

- you could paint a series on school-related stuff. eg. the different rooms in your school, or the diff articles of school usage, the school colors & emblem, diff activities at school, diff moods of students at school, & so on.

How about trying to Visualize & draw Emotions / Traits, etc. eg. Courage, Love, Fear, Hate, Perseverance, Peace, Joy, Kindness, Naivety, etc.

You could also depict Life stages or Rites of Passage such as Birth, Death, Adulthood, Maturation, Childishness, Teenage years, Mid-life crisis, Old age, Senility, Marriage, Widowhood, becoming a grandparent,....

You could think of some "story", incident, issue, quotation, joke, ... & try to depict them through your sketches.

You can choose characters from any book, comic, film, poem, etc. that you like & develop them visually. Draw them as you "see" them.

For any or all of the above, you could do a whole Spectrum of emotions, expressions, positive-to-negative, and so on.

How about thinking of something like : a rainy day ; a horrible night ; a monstrous task ; a traffic jam ; vacationing in the mountains ...... and then try to put the whole image together.

http://painting.about.com/od/inspiration/l/bl-Pain... AND

http://www.magatsu.net/art/index.php

generate random ideas for free

www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/365/pictures.html -- one picture / photo prompts daily. You can use these to spark your own imagination & creativity.

http://www.newscientist.com/imagegalleries -- this site has a weekly (or more frequent) “Picture of the Day”

http://schunnin.blogspot.com/2008_11_01_archive.ht... -- use these “challenges” to create your own versions &/or think up similar challenges for the future.

Have fun :-)

try something architectural. You'll get better with straight lines and it will also give you a better sense of making something 3-D on a flat sheet of paper.

-Try taking a theme word, like freedom, possibility, fantasy, music, adventure, etc. Then brainstorm, and create a piece based off of it.

Some more challenging things to draw

-Moving water

-Light refracting through a glass (something with some sort of decorative molding so the rays look interesting)

-Landscapes- a beach, forest, desert, mountain, etc.

-Locations (ones with cool little details you can add in) like a library, study, restaurant.

-flowers

-clockwork (like the cogs, actually fitting and functioning together)

all the things I can really think of right now. Hope they help