Feeling creative but stuck on ideas? Pick a number between 1 and 51, and I’ll give you easy sketch ideas, a color, and a medium to work with!
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Nothing is worse than wanting to sketch but nothing sounds good. It’s like looking in your closet full of clothes and coming up empty-handed for a girl’s night out.
After years of ups and downs of trying to figure out interesting things to draw when bored, I have finally found something to help! With no help from me, my husband gave me Two Tumbleweeds Art Dice for Christmas. He has seen how unmotivated I get when I run out of ideas and he found the perfect gift that keeps on giving.
Using the dice I’ve made a list of easy sketch ideas that will get you in the drawing spirit!
The first 26 ideas are simplistic using only the object die. The rest of them had 3 dice rolled making them more complex to challenge your skills.
51 Easy Sketch Ideas
1. Plants
2. Landscape
Landscape sketching is one of the best sketches to do. It’s best done under the sun with the breeze in your hair!
3. Human Adult
4. A Sports Team
5. Piece of Garbage
This one could be so much fun! Crumple a tissue and draw or sketch a trashcan.
6. Food or Drink
7. Flowers
8. Insect
9. Seashell
Doodle a flat clam-like seashell or an intricate conch shell.
10. Something Old
It could be an heirloom necklace, a pair of old shoes, or a rustic truck.
11. Building
12. Portrait
This can be as easy as sketching a portrait on Procreate!
13. Reptile
14. Fish
15. Detailed Sketch of Sports/Games
16. Mountains Zoomed In
17. Smooth Mountains
18. Bird
Watch a timelapse of this parrot in Parrot Sketch using Basic Drawing Shapes.
19. Detailed Transportation
An airplane or a train would make a really cool addition to your sketchbook.
20. Human Child
These next few are emotions. You could draw something that makes you feel sorrow, calm, or angry or you could try doing an abstract sketch of the emotion itself.
21. Sorrow
22. Joy
23. Calm
24. Humor
This mountain sketch reminds me of humor with all of the squiggly lines and character.
25. Anger
26. Love
If you want to do more than just sketch, this section will give you ideas on topic and medium for you to use.
27. Detailed Seashells with Ink
28. Human Adult in a Green Cityscape with Acrylic Paint
29. A Calm Building with Markers
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30. Detailed Mountains with Pencils
31. Joyful Garbage in Charcoal
32. An Angry Human Child Zoomed Out
33. A Sad Fish Indoors with Charcoal
34. Purple Seashells with Pastel
35. A Man-Made Object with Acrylic Paint
36. A Blue Mammal with Watercolor
37. Something Old with Ink and Soft/Smooth Edges
38. A Blurred Adult Human with Charcoal
39. A Black and White Watercolor of a Reptile
The last set of ideas has topics, art mediums, and styles of art.
40. A Bird Underwater with Pencils in an Abstract Style
41. Yellow/Orange Flowers with Pastel in an Impressionist Style
42. Indoor Plant/Tree with Graphite in Surrealism Style
43. A Sports Game that has an Angry vibe with Ink in an Abstract Style
You could get some great inspiration from the Super Bowl for this idea.
44. A Red Reptile in a Cityscape with Pastels in Impressionist Style
45. A Black and White Bird with Pencils in Pop Art Style
46. A Zoomed-Out View of Transportation with Ink in Modern Style
47. Something Old with Charcoal that is Blurred in Fantasy Style
You could take an object in your favorite fantasy novel and draw it. For me, it would probably be the Sword of Tyrrendor from the Empyrean series by Rebecca Yarros.
48. Food and Drink with Charcoal in a Pop Art Style
49. A Still Life Building with Ink in a Realism Style
This example was done inside a building but I’m still counting it!
Learn more about still life in 17 Great Still Life Drawing Ideas.
50. An Insect with Charcoal in an Abstract Style
51. A Seascape with Watercolor in a Modern Style
Now that you have a list of interesting things to draw when bored you have no excuse to not draw 🙂
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