Sketch It

The Ideas page gives many common topics with lists of ideas that you may want to draw or paint. Reading through some of these examples may help you spark some creativity and create new images in your mind.

Here is also a list of things you can do to help you think of what to draw.

• Doodle

• Play with colors

• Draw something easy that you've drawn before

• Figure out what is important to you, how you feel, try putting it in an image

• Look around

• Draw from a photograph

• Draw things you like

• Try doing something other than staring at a blank page, could stimulate creativity.

• Read, listen to music, dance or do some other creativity

• Challenge yourself

• Clean and organize your art supplies

• Try looking into drawing books

• Sleep/ nap dreams can spark creativity

• Try drawing abstracts, patterns, and shapes

• Look back at old sketchbooks for ideas

• Look up places you've been or always wanted to see

• Keep a sketch pad of some sort around to make a rough sketch when you get random inspiration