Admin Post: Prompt Post

[goss]

This post will be used for brainstorming Prompts, projects and other drawing activities.

We encourage community members to contribute ideas, themes, phrases, lyrics, etc. in the comments section of this post, as well as links to drawing warm-ups, exercises, and any other interesting prompts that might inspire our artists.

Comments

[syntheid]

I did not remember this post existed, so here's a handful of prompts.

1. Creature Design: draw an alien or fantasy creature, the less humanoid the better? Could also be split into categories like insectoid / aquatic / flying etc for separate prompts.

2. The Conceptual Environment Art Challenge, technically to try to challenge you to focus on environment design, though could also be used as regular word/phrase inspiration prompts.

3. Modern AU (or period historial/futuristic AU if they are modern-day already) of a favorite character

4. 100 thing challenge-- maybe more of a long-term or special occasion thing than for the usual prompt, but one of the best ways to ingrain something in your personal visual library is to draw it a lot so people do challenges of drawing 100 hands or 100 expressions or 100 birds whatever they want to get good at. And post it for accountability.

5. Limited palette prompts: (e.g. https://78.media.tumblr.com/fae8479ba2027e3a0f15a090bad1773f/tumblr_p521pjukXD1x3kpw5o1_1280.png) Way more than that one and we could pick them off colourlovers and other places too, but just picking a palette that we all have to come up with a piece for.

Not really a prompt, but I had also been wondering if there might be interest in having (regular? or just sporadic with a tag?) art critique, where you can post and ask for redlines or advice on something you're having trouble with or stuck on.

[goss]

Excellent suggestions! I am personally intrigued by the 100 thing challenge. *___*

The creature design challenge sounds like something many in our community might be interested in.

Or even just going with creature themes (aquatic, flying, etc.) for those who like drawing characters that already exist in fandom.

[mekare]

The Environment Challenge Sounds interesting, it's something I really need to work on. Also dito yes for Art critiques!

[syntheid]

A larger palette prompt with poses and a tumblr-style select-and-drag generator.

[syntheid]

Couple other ideas:

6. Draw this again: Pick a piece you did a while ago and redo it to see your skill improvement from then to now.

7. Draw this in your style: A bit more involved since participants would have to do at least two pictures (their own for others to draw, and someone else's to remix), but it's gone around Twitter/Tumblr/Insta at least a couple times to remix someone else's art, and that could be fun?

[mific]

Thanks for these, I'll touch base with goss.