Drawing Inspiration at Your Fingertips
Let’s face it, we all struggle with what to draw next. This article will give you the 100 hottest drawing ideas which you can use as inspiration for your next project.
If you are not sure which one to pick, then write out the list below onto a scrap piece of paper, close you eyes and point to a spot on the paper. Whichever item you are pointing at, is what you draw.
For even more ideas, scroll past the list, there I show you 8 ways to increase this list tenfold within seconds.
What is important is that you keep drawing – draw small quick sketches sometimes, draw large intricate projects at other times. Either way it is the practice that you are getting which will ensure you keep improving.
Remember practice makes perfect 
Let's Go:
2. Draw a soccer ball
3. Draw a house
4. Draw a ballerina
5. Draw a bottle of perfume
6. Draw a lion
7. Draw a cat
9. Draw a fish
10. Water lily
11. Cupcake
12. Seashells
13. Wolf
14. Your watch
15. Car
16. Phone
17. Fighter Jet
18. Pistol
19. Rubic’s cube
20. Holiday
21. Harbour Bridge
22. Muscles
23. Giraffe
24. Misty forest
25. Elegance
26. Chimpanzee
27. Hot air balloons
28. Shoes
29. Skull
30. Sand dunes
31. Knot in a rope
32. Cosmos flower
33. Orange juice
34. A rat in me kitchen
35. A bee flying to…
36. Lighthouse
37. Spider
38. Breaking wave
39. Lightning
40. Snail
41. Cow
42. A road to nowhere
43. Eagle
44. Chickadee
45. Something scary
61. Eye
62. Pencils
63. Graffiti
64. Something cold
65. Skyscraper
66. Lost in the forest
67. Hummingbird
68. Music
69. River
70. Angry
71. Farmhouse
72. Cliffs
73. Loaf of bread
74. Sunset
75. Popcorn at the movies
76. Berries
77. Something yummy
78. Tree
79. Chaos
80. Apples
81. Wine glass
82. Playing in the mist
83. Money
84. Rose
85. Sunglasses
86. Meadow
87. Talking tree
88. Soft toy
89. Onion
90. Book
91. School bus
92. Love
93. Black and White
94. Teddy Bear
95. Something Oriental
96. Fire
97. Spoon
98. Aliens
99. Canyon
100. Silence
Need More Inspiration?
This list is not just meant to give you a specific drawing idea, it is your springboard to thousands more drawing ideas.
This is how you can use the list to generate as many subjects to draw as you want:
- You can take the subject and draw it as you see. For example if an item on the list suggests drawing a shoe, then you can draw a shoe.
- You can draw the opposite if what the list suggests. In our shoe example you may decide that the opposite of a shoe in a bare foot, then you can draw a foot.
- You can draw a complimentary item to the one on the list, so in our example you may draw a still life with socks and shoes.
- You can draw something similar to the one on the list, like a gumboot or pair of roller skates
- You can make up a story using the item on the list. For our shoe example, you may think of drawing a shoe walking in to town to go buy some shoelaces. Then you draw that scene.
- You can decide what emotion the item on the list makes you think of, then draw that emotion. For example, a shoe may make you think of something funny that happened recently while you were out hiking, so you then capture that laughter in your drawing by drawing rendering of the funny scene from the hiking trip.
- You can think of what rhymes with the word on the list and draw that. For example, shoe rhymes with kangaroo, so you can draw a kangaroo.
- You can even take that a step further by thinking up a poem or saying containing the item on the list….
As you can see with just a little bit of imagination, this list of 100 items can quickly become thousands.
The important thing is to use the to keep yourself drawing. When you find yourself sitting without inspiration, pick any item on the list and start drawing. The minute you start drawing you will be able to relax and enjoy the process of drawing.
When that happens you will find that your brain also relaxes and that is when the ideas for the next drawing start to flow.
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