Sketchbook Ideas to Make your book better!!!

Here are some old and new ideas... the earlier ones in the list are more simple than the later ones.

• Outside vs Inside
• Object suspended in colored dish detergent
• Pile of pillows
• Fabric with a pattern
• Childlike drawing made into fine art
• Close up to abstraction
• Insets, drawings within a drawing
• How it works: Inner workings of a machine
• A word and visual description
• Contour line drawing using only letters: Repetition
• Masking tape patterns and color
• 2 old drawings torn apart and made new
• Draw on top of an old drawing
• Insects
• Man made vs natural
• Opposites collage
• Less than an inch (small objects in repetition)
• Mechanics of an object…create a drawing as a designer would have first drawn it
• A chair as a self portrait
• Mundane
• Accidents…random acts of art
• Exaggeration
• Value study with dried up markers
• 5 Drawings on top of each other
• Numbers: How many ways
• Geometric COLLAGE:
• Linear Line Drawing of Organic Objects
• Jim Dine: TOOLS
• Negative Space Only
• How do I love art: Let me count the ways!!
• I hate these things!
• Dirty water drawing with Sharpie (weighted line)
• Drawing with colored paper
• Only object I found at this location_____? Collage Design only, No other media.
• Dots to Drawing: Only a pencil eraser and ink... Stamp your heart out!!
• Non – Objective
• Oops, Wrong Color?
• Lonely…Object
• Messiest vs cleanest
• Contradiction
• Ballpoint pen only!!
• Everything in my backpack... Wow me!!
• Music to my ears.
• Normal
• Not Normal
• Plugged in.

Interior: Non-traditional, no buildings... more like the inside of a purse
Extreme light source
Shoes as a portrait
Refuge
Extreme perspective
Organic
All that and a bag of chips
Reflective Identity
One of these things are not like the other one
Hanging or suspended
Free Space
Yesterday
Do you dream in color?
10 things I love about you. (take off of the movie... they are to merge 10 objects that express who they are)
I also like to give the words that they do not know as a prompt and they have to look up the definition

Additional Sketchbook Assignments