What do you get when you have a lot of art supplies,
some inspiration,
and, maybe a sketchbook or two?
I'm going to show you guys
20 drawing/painting ideas today and hopefully if you need some inspiration,
it finds you here.
Let's start with the first one. The first idea, draw some fun and funky looking fish
looking straight at you. And all you have to do is do the teardrop shapes, some circles, and triangles.
Once you combine all those shapes, you have so many possibilities for funky, fun looking fish.
So the next drawing idea is actually inspired by a course that I took on Skillshare,
so I'm going to tell you a little bit about that. Wanna know why? Why? Because
today's video is sponsored by Skillshare and that's the whole reason why I'm bringing you twenty drawing ideas.
Skillshare is a place where you can learn from over twenty five thousand online courses to feed your
curiosity, creativity, and desire to learn. I just took Odd Bodies:
Illustrating Expressive, Stylized People by Tom Froese and I had loved it.
it was a really great drawing exercise to
simplify people and just exaggerate certain
characteristics for fun.
Anyway, Skillshare is really affordable.
A yearly subscription is less than ten dollars a month.
Plus a premium membership lets you take unlimited classes.
If you want to learn for fun, for work, or school, this is definitely the community for you.
So you can join over 7 million creators learning with Skillshare,
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Anyway, this is the person that I drew inspired the class and I applied a little bit of my own style to it
and really enjoyed this exercise.
It helped me to
not get so hung up on little details and to just have fun with my art.
Number Three
create a
rainbow-colored
background. I am using watercolor, but you can use whatever you want or have.
Just be sloppy; create this hazy, fun
background and then let that puppy dry because we're gonna doodle over it
I am drawing a chubby unicorn leaping through the air. You can draw
the same thing or you could do a cat, a dog,
whatever you want and then I colored it in with more
rainbow happy colors
because why not brighten the mood with all these colorful things? And
at the end it was really cute, and round, and cuddly looking, and it was really easy to draw.
Number four is an old-time favorite
but you can take some watercolor, some tea, or some coffee, and paint your page.
Let it dry, because we are going to
draw an old map over top of this.
You don't need anything extravagant,
I'm just using a ballpoint pen and I'm making up continent shapes just a bunch of blobs and
then I decided hey, let's be fancy and draw a compass and that was literally the hardest part of this whole thing. So
after you draw your continents just draw a bunch of dashed lines around the perimeter.
Make it a little thicker on the inside and then do some dashed lines on the outside too. And
that's what you're gonna do. Blobs and dashed lines for this whole thing and it looks sweet when you're done. I
even did some dashes in the water.
And then if you want to get fancy, you can take it the extra mile
maybe draw some waves, some mountains, some trees,
Whatever you want and there you go. You have a really cool art piece after that. Look at that.
Number Five. If you don't have a lot of time, but you have washi tape, you can do some really cool stuff.
So what I like to do is just cut four strips and put it around the border of the paper and
that dresses up your page really nicely for whatever
simple doodle you want to do in the middle.
So I took this gold marker and literally just did a silhouette of a monstera leaf and when it was done
the gold of the marker tied in with the gold of the washi tape, and it looked really cool.
So this is a really easy idea if you're stretched for time.
Number Six is admittedly very silly and
just goofy all around.
But it's easy and anybody can do it as long as you can draw a circle.
And if you can't draw a perfect one, and yours are kind of wobbly, that is what we're looking for
So do some yellow circles and then some big black circles around it, and boom
we have a bunch of dippy eggs on our page.
I know, it's kind of silly right? And then to make it really cute
you can put faces on each little egg - and
I know some people call them sunny-side up eggs, but I'll let you debate that in the comments.
Number Seven. Draw a bee and to make it even more quirky,
only shade it with lines.
Now this can seem challenging, but it's pretty repetitive.
But once you get the hang of it, if you've ever heard of hatching, that's pretty much what this is.
So the whole time I'm coloring in this bee I'm just doing a bunch of little lines and
it's great for this insect because
honestly, a lot of bees are fuzzy so it gives off that fuzzy look
it's actually really easy once you
get the hang of the motions that you want to do.
And if you want to dress it up at the end
you can take some watercolor or markers and just add a splash of color here and there.
Number Eight. Get a bunch of markers or crayons or something and just draw a cute little
rainbow.
I decided to do pastel colors
and then I brightened my clouds at the end and put little faces on each cloud.
After that, just write a kind phrase. I wrote "be kind, dude!" and it was a fun little doodle.
Number Nine
Design your own character with a very simple, yet minimal color palette.
So you'll notice that I'm sketching with a colored pencil and this is going to be my main color.
I'm not thinking about any other colors right now, I am just sketching my character.
I'm doing all the shading with this color. I'm getting all the proportions down, and then later,
once this is finished,
I am going to go in with other colors
and make those be accents. And what this is gonna do, is it's gonna make your piece pop in a really unique,
almost retro away. So I put some pink and yellow down and then a tiny bit of orange and boom we're done.
Number 10
I honestly have no reasoning for this one except that it's- it's really cute and fun to do.
But draw a mushroom house. I
decided to paint it, instead of color it in with dry media, and
I thought the colors were really fun and playful and it just reminded me of a children's
storybook and brought me back to the good old days.
Number 11. Draw a plant
using basic shapes.
So I used a trapezoid, a
Rectangle - and both of those had rounded corners - and then a bunch of wonky hearts for the leaves
after that, I outlined everything with a black marker and
put a cute face on the pot because why not?
After that
I just colored everything in. I didn't even do much shading because I thought it looked pretty
cute being simple. And there you have it. You have a cute little plant with a face.
Number 12
Remember that unicorn painting at the beginning of the video?
Well, if you have watercolors grab them, apply the same technique. Lay down, whatever
colors you want, and then let the paper dry.
Now here's the twist.
We are going to do a zentangle, but this is an abstract zentangle.
So trace all the little blobs of paint.
Anywhere that you see the color changes or there's just
spots around where the colors dried any imperfection.
Outline it, make it beautiful, and it turns into a really cool effect, and it's abstract.
Sweet!
Number 13 is so fun.
Especially when it's fall and everybody is drawing like potions,
and just all sorts of fall themed things for Halloween.
You can draw a glass bottle. It does not have to be realistic and it can be any shape you want, and then put
something interesting inside. You can do a terrarium, some weird
specimen or creature, or just fill it with a potion and put bubbles inside.
I decided to do the weird a specimen route,
so it looks like there's a little alien in my bottle and then I had it swimming in a potion.
So I thought like 'hey a pink and purple potion sounds kind of cool. Let's see what we can do'.
And that's it. It always looks cool in the end when you
stylize it and add your own flair. So I totally encourage
this one
Number 14
Okay, so if you're into the
minimalistic
decorating style in your home, you're probably gonna love this one. It does not take a lot of skill
so anybody can do this.
Just draw a bunch of bumpy, uneven,
thick lines across your paper in
whatever color scheme you want and
in between those lines get some black ink and
do variations of circles and dashed lines.
So in between each colored line do some little simple pattern basically and when you back away
it looks awesome.
If you put a frame around this and hang it on your wall, whoo, that's gonna look sweet!
Number 15. If you're into fashion
you can design an outfit that you either really love, or an outfit that you want.
So fall is coming, and I definitely have fall fever and I keep imagining
this outfit that I - I am determined to find it by the way - so I decided, you know
I'm gonna draw it so I don't forget about it.
But yeah if you like drawing
clothing,
but maybe you don't want to draw people,
this is great because you're basically just drawing the articles of clothing and you don't have to worry about proportions
so I I love doing this. It's
more mindless and less stressful
not worrying about anatomy.
Yeah
I definitely encourage this one.
Okay number 16 is so cute and fun.
Basically, you just design yourself as a cartoon character and
begin by only
drawing circles and ovals
until you get the body shape down. It's so cute
seeing what it does to the style and then after that you can add
hair and an outfit and your facial features and just see where it takes you.
Number 17 makes for a cute DIY
birthday card or baby shower card.
I think it's really fun to draw a cute animal like
throwing their arms up into the air and kind of
personifying it a bit and then just draw a garland right above it and color it in. It looks super happy,
It's super bright, and just so cute all around. And then you can write whatever message you want on the back.
Okay for this one we are doing a
Zentangle. As you saw, I lost half of this footage
but you start in the middle of the page and just draw lines outward and then you color in all the gaps. I
kept mine
monochromatic and just did like pinky purples and it was really sweet looking when it was done.
Let me tell you what, this is a really easy,
mindless art project that you can do when you're kicking back at the end of the day and watching a movie. So treat yourself,
feel accomplished, and make some easy art.
Oh yeah!
Number 19. If you guys have been watching my channel for a while you probably
notice, I do this quite a bit. I've actually done it a few times within this video
but turn inanimate objects into characters.
So I have these classic characters that I actually turned into stickers and I sell them in my shop.
but they're called 'Q-teas and
Coffees' and basically
I just- I love turning coffee cups and mugs into characters.
You can honestly do this with anything.
I mean if you want to do this with like cars
or I don't know, trash cans or spoons or something.
You can you can make anything look so cute with this style. So I highly recommend it
if you don't know what to draw. I I go back to this all the time. This is actually how I invented my
Blubblefly
Character. it was born from this concept
What what what? Whoa, whoa hold up we're already at number 20?
Yes, we are and you already see what I'm drawing, but I'm gonna tell you what.
we are drawing some wild flowers with a twist to this.
You cannot lift the pen for each wild flower that you draw. This -
It's so fun. It's really fun. It almost gives your drawing sort of like a vintage, yet
abstract effect, and I just made up my flowers. I just rolled with it and made things up
but what this does is challenges you to execute your ideas ahead of time in your mind
while your hand is moving so you have to think fast on the spot, but think ahead. I
really love doing this and if you're up for a cool challenge,
yeah, give it a try. Let me know how it goes.
I didn't keep the pen down for the entire drawing because that makes my wrist hurt so you don't have to do that.
Anyway, that's my final drawing idea. I hope you found this video helpful!
I'm gonna link you guys a playlist to more drawing and sketchbook ideas in case you want some more inspiration.
Thank you so much for watching and I hope you have a wonderful day!