Mary
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It happens to the best of us. You're ready to spend a nice, cosy day in, you sit down for some relaxing drawing (or painting, or sculpting) but your mind goes completely blank.
It can be so annoying when you finally have some spare time to spend on the arts, but you just can't seem to think of a subject.
No worries, I've got you covered. Here is a list of 100 drawing prompts if ever you feel like being creative, but no idea will pop into your head.
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Something moving in the wind
What you think music looks like
Something that’s less than 5 days old
Something that’s more than 100 years old
An object as if it were alive
Something outdoors in three different kinds of weather
A fairy tale character
Five different things that can fly
Something exaggerated
Something you’d see on a deserted island
Something fluffy
Make a simplified copy of a famous piece of art
A tool used by cavemen
A wilted plant
Something ugly
Something soft
Something with a strong smell
Something sharp
Something you only find in space
Your favourite piece of clothing
An interesting window
A silly face
An item that’s distinctive African
Something you’ve never seen in real life
A sunrise
Something found in space
Your favourite food
The house you'd love to own
Something huge
Something tiny
Something worth more than £10,000 but smaller than a car
Something yellow
A giraffe (badly) dressed like a lion
Something noisy
A uniform
Something calming
Something scary
A coloured glass bottle in the light
People playing a game
Something annoying
Something that is typical for your country
Something medieval
A beauty pageant for office stationery
An item from your favourite book
Something made of wood
Something made of metal
What your hands would look like if your fingers were twigs
A cat that looks like he's up to no good
An octopus riding a bicycle
Something to take travelling
Something you once lost
The crossover between a rose and a frog
A reason why you would or wouldn't want to move to a different country
The current ‘World's Ugliest Dog’
A funny hat
The packaging of something
Three things in your fridge
Three drinks in the wrong glasses
Something dirty
Three kinds of beard/moustache
What freedom looks like
An animal running
Something outside at night
A vegetable doing an office job
A wedding hedgehog
A company logo for a bakery
A company logo for a law firm
Five different animals from behind
Something you'd find in a museum
An item of clothing that's not worn anymore in our time and age
Something above you
A distorted reflection of something
A dangerous animal as if it were a cute pet
A cute pet as if it were a dangerous animal
A staircase
A really good camping spot
A necklace that an owl would simply adore
An elephant living under water
A scene describing your favourite motivational quote
An object from your childhood
Something that's part of another thing
A goth tomato
Something dangerous
A house in the worst possible location (and how you could make it work, anyway)
An astronaut riding a chicken
A camouflaged sailboat
Your teeth
An abstract version of stress
An abstract version of joy
A map of your house/apartment
A skeleton
Three tools of the trade
A person pursuing a hobby
Your bed before you make it in the morning
A historical building
An object you use every day (from memory)
Something broken
Something fixed
A cactus/alarm clock mashup
The silhouettes of the houses in your street
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