Sketchbook is a great tool for students to have in any art related class. And having a short silent sketchbook session in the beginning of each class is a great way to help students get into the mind set for art class. It also serves as a great transition period away from the hallway. And by providing students with a variety of topics to draw for their sketchbook activities; it also helps students to develop critical thinking\/reflection\/analyzing skills. And here I am providing a list of interesting topics for students to draw for their sketchbook activities than I have used in my practicum.<\/p>\n
1. Pick two animals that reflect you
\nand combine them to create a new
\nanimal
\n2. Draw an object and give it human
\nqualities
\n3. Illustrate an imaginary place in
\nyour mind
\n4. Look up a word from the dictionary
\nand find a definition you never
\nknew about and create an artwork
\nin response to that definition
\n5. Draw a pile of unfolded laundry
\n6. Make a visual pun (ex. eggplant)
\n7. Draw your eye using a mirror
\n8. Do an image transfer using clear
\ntape or acrylic medium
\n9. Create a mosaic out of cut pieces
\nof magazines
\n10. Create a pattern
\n11. Photocopy your previous work and
\npaint over it
\n12. Fill a page with doodles
\n13. Draw a memory from childhood
\n14. Draw your favorite t shirt
\n15. Make your own drawing instrument
\nand draw
\n16. Design your own graffiti
\n17. Combine organic and geometric
\nshapes
\n18. Cut photographs to create a new
\nimage
\n19. Find three images and join them
\ntogether
\n20. Make animated flip-book using the
\ncorner of your sketchbook
\n21. Draw something backwards or
\nusing your non dominant hand
\n22. Take turns drawing with someone
\n23. Use the spine of the sketchbook to
\ncreate an interesting image
\n24. Create a metaphorical self portrait
\n25. Pop-inspired drawing with personal
\nsymbols or words
\n26. Draw something that doesn\u2019t
\nbelong to you
\n27. Draw many views of the same
\nobject
\n28. Draw your hand and fill it in as if it
\nwas a map
\n29. If objects had a skeleton what
\nwould it look like
\n30. Doodle listening to music: pay
\nattention to the beat and draw
\nyour own creative musical score
\n31. Draw what\u2019s in your bag
\n32. Fill a page by writing whatever
\ncomes to your mind
\n33. Draw something that doesn\u2019t last
\n34. Do a blind contour drawing
\n35. Illustrate your favorite poem
\n36. Draw things that \u201cconnect\u201d
\n37. Draw three objects with wheels
\n38. Create a sculpture from things that
\nare around you and draw it
\n39. Write a list of unusual things that
\npeople do
\n40. Draw things that open and close
\n41. Draw your greatest fear
\n42. Create a character and draw it with
\nfive different noses.
\n43. Invent and draw an imaginary
\nworld on a toothbrush
\n44. Design your own handbag \/car
\n45. Do a self portrait looking into a
\nspoon
\n46. Design an ad for a product you
\ninvented
\n47. Create your own book of textures
\n48. Make a small viewfinder and move
\nit around a photo or image until
\nyou find an interesting section and
\nenlarge the found image
\n49. What is home to you? Write, draw,
\nor collage about it
\n50. Design a method of transportation
\nnot yet invented.
\n51. What do you see in the clouds?
\n52. Magnify a section of a leaf
\n53. Write about your earliest memory
\n54. Do a scribble. In it find an animal
\nor any kind of imaginary creature
\n55. Shine a light on an object and draw
\nit
\n56. Draw something\/someone and distort it (ex.
\nBig head, tiny feet)
\n57. Collect images of movement
\n58. Illustrate a scene from a story
\n59. Draw the silhouette of an object
\n60. Record the texture of a driftwood
\n61. Draw something ugly
\n62. Simplify an artist\u2019s painting
\n63. Sketch your hand, recording all
\nvisible creases and folds
\n64. Draw your lunch & journal about it
\n65. Pick a small object and enlarge it
\n66. Create contrast between two ideas
\n67. Make a poster for a social cause
\n68. Go outside and do gesture
\ndrawings of people
\n69. Do a contour drawing and fill the
\nnegative space with collage
\n70. Pick a noun from a dictionary at
\nrandom and illustrate it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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