149 Sketchbook Ideas 1. Draw the inside of your closet 2. Draw the contents of your desk drawer 3. Just before your room is cleaned, draw it 4. Draw the contents of your refrigerator 5. Draw the contents of your medicine chest 6. Draw the contents of your garage 7. Draw your dad’s work table after he’s worked on a project 8. Before the dishes are washed, draw them 9. Draw a pile of laundry waiting to get washed 10. If you have an octopus for a furnace, draw it 11. Draw a pile of bicycles on the sidewalk 12. Draw the guests at your parents dinner party 13. Draw yourself in a mirror 14. Draw your brother/sister practicing his/her instrument 15. Draw your friend shooting hoops in the driveway 16. Draw yourself painting your toenails (if you do) 17. Draw your hand in multiple positions 18. Draw your hand holding a variety of objects 19. Draw your hand against other parts of anatomy (chin, knee, etc.) 20. Draw your bird, cat, dog, fish, snake, leopard, lobster doing something strange 21. Draw what is in the rear-view mirror of your car 22. Draw a dead bird in a beautiful landscape 23. Draw a flower growing next to a turned over garbage can 24. Draw raw chicken parts; cooked parts; after eaten parts 25. Draw a piece of cake and make it look delicious 26. Draw 2 eggs in the shell, fried, over easy 27. Draw one popcorn kernel, draw a bag of popcorn 28. Draw a raw steak, steak bones 29. Draw moving water, still water 30. Draw a wet object, make it look wet 31. Draw an object when looking through a tube (microscope) 32. Draw an object seen through glass (how does the glass make a difference) 33. Draw something floating 34. Draw a dark object in a light environment 35. Draw a dark object in a dark environment 36. Draw the contents of a light room when sitting in a dark room 37. Climb a ladder, draw what is below 38. Climb a mountain (hill), draw what is below 39. Lie on the floor, draw what is eye level 40. Dig a hole, put a whole in the hole, draw what is in the hole 41. Fill in the hole, cover up the whole, draw the covered hole 42. Find a quiet place in a crowd, draw the crowd 43. Find a quiet place, draw the quiet 44. Find a noisy place, draw noise 45. On the school bus, draw your friends on the way to school, draw your friends on the way home. Is there a difference? 46. Shine a light through an open weave structure, draw the cast shadow 47. Draw an object that is lit by the light coming through mini blinds 48. Draw a portrait that is lit by the light coming through mini blinds 49. Draw an object that is lit by a candle 50. Draw a figure that is lit by a candle 51. Draw your sister/brother by the light cast by the TV or computer screen 52. Draw your father/mother by the light cast from the TV or computer screen 53. Draw an apple, pear, banana 54. Draw an apple, banana, and a wrench 55. Draw a scoop of ice cream and an old shoe 56. Draw an apple, a vacation photo, a hammer and a gold fish 57. Tighten a C clamp on a banana, draw it 58. Draw an apple, pear, and a banana that is tightly wrapped in aluminum foil, plastic wrap 59. Draw an apple, pear, and a banana that is tightly wrapped in string 60. Copy the Mona Lisa 61. Rearrange the Mona Lisa to suit yourself 62. Rearrange the Mona Lisa to suit your art teacher 63. Put Mona Lisa in a contemporary setting 64. Copy any work of art older than you 65. Remake the above work of art in your way 66. Make a drawing that says something about the environment 67. Make a drawing that says something about the world situation 68. Make a drawing that is pure propaganda about any issue you feel strongly about 69. Make a drawing that is totally truthful 70. Make a drawing that lies all over the place 71. Make a drawing that is completely impossible 72. Draw a portrait inside out 73. Draw an apple, pear, banana inside out 74. Look out your bedroom window, draw what you see 75. Look out your bedroom window, draw what you would like to see 76. Draw an apple, pear, banana that is wrapped in an apple, pear, banana 77. Draw a form fitting case made of steel that would fit an apple, pear, banana 78. Draw two squares of a sidewalk and make it look interesting 79. Make a detailed drawing of five square inches of grass 80. Make a detailed drawing of five square inches of hair 81. Make a detailed drawing of five square inches of a feather 82. Make a detailed drawing of five square inches of a dollar bill 83. Make a drawing of grass, hair, feathers and a dollar bill 84. Draw an insect under a magnifying glass 85. Rearrange, redesign the insect 86. Change the size relationship (scale) of the insect and something else (i.e. building, ships, cars) 87. Draw a portrait of your best friend as an insect 88. Draw a self portrait of you as a beautiful insect 89. Draw a family insect portrait 90. Copy Copley’s Watson and Shark 91. Change the figures depicted in the Copley painting to people you know 92. Rearrange Copley’s painting Watson and the Shark to work on dry land 93. Crumple a magazine ad, draw it 94. Crumple a photograph, draw it 95. Crumple a drawing, redraw it crumpled 96. Cut out a photo into small pieces, rearrange the photo in some other order, draw it 97. Make a drawing that looks sticky 98. Make a drawing that oozes 99. Make a drawing of a mechanical structure or machine 100. Make a drawing of a machine that oozes 101. Make a drawing of a machine so that the parts are sticky 102. Make a drawing of a fine mechanical instrument (camera) under water (use your imagination) 103. Draw the Brooklyn Bridge 104. Draw the Brooklyn Bridge over a small body of water i.e. bathtub 105. Draw a form fitted case made of wood and lined with velvet for an apple, pear, and a banana 106. Draw a chair 107. Draw the concept of the uses of a chair (sitting) without the chair 108. Draw a bed 109. Draw the concept of the uses of a bed without a bed without the bed 110. Make a drawing that illustrates the phrase “I have come to a juncture in my life” 111. Make a drawing that illustrates the phrase “There is an insufficiency of intellect” 112. Make a careful drawing that illustrates the word “Haste” 113. Draw the imaginary skeleton of an apple, pear, and banana 114. Draw a monument for a bagel 115. Draw a photograph of an apple, pear, and banana at an angle tilted away from you 116. Draw a portrait of you and your friends as cards; the queen, king, and jack of spades 117. Draw a slice of the best pizza you have ever seen 118. Make a drawing of all your drawing materials 119. Make a detailed drawing of a rock 120. Make a drawing at McDonalds 121. Draw the reflection from light bouncing off a motorcycle 122. Draw your portrait from the reflection of a shiny chrome object i.e. toaster, bowl, spoon 123. Draw the reflection from a body of water 124. Draw the reflection from a store window 125. Draw the reflection of reflection 126. Reflect on your drawing of reflection, draw your retrospection 127. Draw an aerial view of your back yard 128. Draw a transparent object 129. Draw a translucent object 130. Draw a translucent object that is inside a transparent object 131. Draw a translucent apple, pear, and banana 132. Draw a building in which you would like to live 133. Make a drawing using a map of the USA as a motif 134. Make a portrait of yourself as you see yourself in twenty years 135. Make a pastoral drawing 136. Draw life in the city 137. Draw a mysterious doorway or staircase 138. Drape a mysterious object in cloth, draw it 139. Draw a moving object 140. Draw an empty room, make it interesting 141. Draw a woman wearing a big hat 142. Draw a masked man (not a super hero) 143. Draw a sleeping person 144. Draw a flower, make it appear dangerous 145. Draw a person looking out a window 146. Draw a person looking in a window 147. Draw a person reading a letter 148. Draw an apple, pear, and banana in outer space 149. Draw a detailed drawing of a nut and bolt
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