What Do You Want to Make Today?
Once I was reviewing a book about doodling and one of the prompts I tried was drawing a tree doodle with dots. It was a fun way to think about a drawing because it’s not quite the same as drawing with lines. I feel like you have to think a bit more about where your […]
I have consistently been lamenting my inability to draw even the most basic things, but I’m always seeing simple (or simple looking, anyway) drawing tutorials on Pinterest and elsewhere. So I thought today I would try to draw using online tutorials and see what happens. Finding Online Drawing Tutorials Because I’m an About.com writer, I […]
I’m relatively certain there’s a fancy artsy name for what I’m doing in this challenge. Maybe a negative space drawing or something like that. The idea is that you have a shape, which you can draw, cut out and tape down, whatever, then you outline a shape with designs, so when you take the shape […]
Sometimes it is fun to use old art in a different way, to look at it in a different way. Today’s challenge asks you to cut up old art and put it back together in a different way, lots of ways, or not at all to see what happens. Playing with Cut Up Old Art […]
Here’s a quick and easy creative challenge you can do wherever you are with whatever tools you have on hand: markers, colored pencils, crayons, pens, sidewalk chalk, paintbrushes loaded with paint, whatever. Hold two or three or more such items in one hand and try to draw with multiple tools at once. I started out […]
There are lots of little drawing activities you can try to give yourself a little creative boost through the day. One of them, which is another great mind-bending challenge, is to draw with your eyes closed. You can doodle or scribble or actually try to draw something that looks like something. You can also try […]
Today’s challenge was inspired in part by the paper cutting book I was reading and in part by a super simple Valentine’s card I once made with a drawing of the girl’s. It’s easy to cut paper in simple shapes — or even not-so-simple shapes — and use the cutout as a sort of frame […]