- A self portrait with a serious or funny face
- Draw your own comic stripstrip, Manga, or cartoon character
- Mythological or fantasy creatures or monsters
- Draw your hands in contour line. Try a variety of positions or overlapping them.
- Contour line drawings of objects from 3 different views.
- Draw what you would see from a hot air balloon; an ant's view; etc. (use your imagination!)
- Creative thinking: the wind, sadness, happiness (other emotions represented with symbols, colors, etc.
- Practice drawing and coloring letters in bubble-letter or graffiti-style lettering
- Make and design a new invention!
- Designs showing patterns or symmetry
- Draw a metallic object and the reflections you see in it.
- Draw the inside of a mechanical object. Fill the page with forms and Shade accordingly.
- Draw a landscape or seascape. Remember to show foreground, middle ground, and background.
- Draw family members with things that they cherish.
- Draw the interior of your room and what's in it
- Study the forms, shapes, lines and textures and colors of trees.
- Draw animals (if you can't see them live, copy them from a photo.)
- Draw a plant with as much detail as possible
- Arrange a still life and draw it with shading.
- Create a fantasy building and landscape.
- Collections of objects: toys, books (opened, closed, stacked), kitchen utensils, art materials, contrasting texture items, knick-knack collections, crumpled paper bags, still life of fruit or vegetables, clothing hung from hooks or chair backs, assorted balls, a collection of cans from the pantry or shampoo bottles from the shower. Stacks of shoes. Old hats. Spools of thread.
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