Easy Sketch Ideas for Beginners

Drawing Prompts – FREE DOWNLOAD

Easy sketch ideas for beginners seems to be a crucial ingredient for getting budding artists to sketch daily. All too often I hear the pathetic excuse of not having anything to draw.

Seriously??

There are literally millions of items, people, animals, buildings, etc. around you every single day. You really can’t find just one thing to draw? (Insert my eye roll and dramatic sigh here.)

Okay, fine. I won’t go all adult and start lecturing about how you could be drawing your beat-up gym shoes. Instead, I will point you in the direction of a very handy tool. It should provide you with an endless supply of things to draw and ways to be creative too.

Drawing prompts.

Drawing prompts are the best way to come up with easy sketch ideas for beginners, intermediate, and advanced artists.

My Inktober 2018 sketch for the prompt “Slice”.

A prime example of drawing prompts at work is Inktober, which is right around the corner. Every October, artist Jake Parker provides a list of drawing prompts. People around the world join in with their daily ink sketches for 31 days and post on social media. While many artists’ sketches have a spooky Halloween slant to them, others take their sketches in totally different directions.

If you’ve never participated in Inktober, give it a shot this year!

My suggestion for drawing prompts is to have prompts for all year long. But do take advantage of Inktober when it rolls around! Start off with a brainstorming session and start jotting down random thoughts and words. Don’t discount anything.

Once you have a list of about 20-25 words, separate subjects from themes.

For example, in my list, I’d separate words like, “animals, A-Z, transportation, robots, city, and commute” into subject matter. Separate other words like, “emotions, punk, twisted, textures, holidays, emo, couples, fantasy, scary” into a themes list. You can leave these on separate lists, but I suggest cutting them out into strips of paper. Fold them up, put them into two separate jars, and do a random draw from each. Theme words like emotions and textures can be expanded into every word you can think of for either of them. Check Facebook emojis for a list of emotions.

As my free gift to you, I’m providing a free download of my brain-storming session. Feel free to use them as is or do your own brainstorming to add to it.

For the most part, you should be able to operate entirely from the subject list. A-Z alone should give you at least 26 random sketches. Or be ambitious and draw 3-5 items for each letter. Or you can combine A-Z with animals. Yes, there are animals that start with every single letter of the alphabet. Trust me. I’ve done it.

You can do transportation sketches for a month. And then you can combine it with sci-fi and do sci-fi transportation sketches for the second month. Draw whatever you see on your daily commute and/or combine it with whichever holiday is around the corner. You can draw robots or combine things and draw punk robots. Instead of drawing separate items from your bedroom on their own, draw your entire bedroom one little bit each day. Spice things up and make it a Halloween bedroom.

See what I mean? The possibilities are literally endless.

Further Reading:

How to Get Creative When You Run Out of Ideas – FREE DOWNLOAD

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