Welcome to the Art and Creativity Prompts section. This section is designed to inspire and encourage your creativity. Whether you're an artist looking for new ideas or someone who wants to explore their creative side, this collection of prompts covers a wide range of artistic and creative disciplines (including (but not limited to) drawing, painting, sketching, writing, illustrating and photography, analog- and digital art and mixed media), that will help you get started.
Each prompt is designed to be open-ended, so you can interpret it in your own way and create something unique. Use these prompts to break through creative blocks, try something new, or just have fun.
Check back regularly for new prompts, and feel free to share your creations with us on Instagram @_strazo_. Let's get creative!
Prompts
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Splash and spill the liquid on the page, creating different shapes. Use brushes to paint with it, as if you were watercoloring. Make coffee pigment of different shades (concentrated = dark, watered down = lighter). Use fine liners once the coffee dries to outline abstract shapes. To avoid wrinkling the page, make this piece on a separate watercolor paper and glue it in your journal later.
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it could be a connecting photo, sketch, drawing, painting, collage, etc.. Play with different shapes, too: you could use 3 squares, or rectangles, or triangles or hexagons, etc..
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Tell about a fictional story or a true event in comic form. Give it a title. Get creative with the frames: make them triangular, round, hexagonal, …
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Draw yourself a box in the middle of your page. Now, draw, collage, sketch, paint, ... whatever you like - but do it, literally, outside the box.
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Photograph, sketch or paint artworks you enjoy. Write a few lines to each of them. Display them all over your page, in chronological order, ranked by preference, by color, or randomly. Title the works. Perhaps, research their respective artists also.
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Draw a long, thin square on your page, vertically or horizontally. Work only within that space! Fill the square with doodles, a sketch, a drawing, a collage, a photograph, or anything else you may think of.
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Collect and use elements only of one color of your choice.