1. Draw the inside of your closet 2. Draw the contents of your desk drawer 3. Just before your mom, dad, or housekeeper cleans your room, draw it 4. Draw the contents of your refrigerator 5. Draw the contents of your medicine chest 6. Draw the contents of your garage 7. Draw your dad’s work table after he’s worked on a project 8. Before the dishes are washed, draw them. 9. Draw a pile of laundry waiting to get washed 10. If you have an octopus for a furnace, draw it 11. Draw a pile of bicycles on the sidewalk 12. Draw the guests at your parent’s dinner party. 13. Draw yourself in a mirror 14. Draw a close up of your teeth. 15. Draw your brother/sister practicing his/her instrument 16. Draw your friend shooting hoops in the driveway 17. Draw yourself painting your toenails (if you do) 18. Draw your hand in multiple positions 19. Draw your hand holding a variety of objects 20. Draw your hand against other parts of anatomy (chin, knee, etc.) 21. Draw your bird, cat, dog, fish, snake, leopard, lobster doing something strange 22. Draw what is in the rear-view mirror of your car 23. Draw a dead bird in a beautiful landscape 24. Draw a flower growing next to a turned over garbage can 25. Draw a detail of your toes. 26. Draw a piece of cake and make it look delicious 27. Draw 2 eggs in the shell, fried, over easy 28. Draw one popcorn kernel; draw a bag of popcorn 29. Draw a raw steak, steak bones 30. Draw moving water, still water 31. Draw a wet object, make it look wet 32. Draw an object when looking through a tube (microscope) 33. Draw an object seen through glass (how does the glass make a difference) 34. Draw something floating 35. Draw a dark object in a light environment 36. Draw a dark object in a dark environment 37. Draw the contents of a light room when sitting in a dark room 38. Climb a ladder, draw what is below 39. Climb a mountain (hill), draw what is below 40. Lie on the floor; draw what is eye level 41. Dig a hole, put a whole in the hole, draw what is in the hole. 42. Fill in the hole, cover up the whole, draw the covered hole 43. Find a quiet place in a crowd, draw the crowd. 44. Find a quiet place, draw the quiet. 45. Find a noisy place, draw noise. 46. On the school bus, draw your friends on the way to school; draw your friends on the way home. Is there a difference? 47. Shine a light through an open weave structure, draw the cast shadow. 48. Draw an object that is lit by the light coming through Venetian blinds. 49. Draw a portrait that is lit by the light coming through Venetian blinds. 50. Draw an object that is lit by a candle. 51. Draw a figure that is lit by a candle. 52. Draw your sister/brother by the light cast by the Saturday morning cartoons on the TV 53. Draw your father/mother by the light cast from the TV news 54. Draw an apple, pear, and a banana. 55. Draw an apple, banana, and a wrench. 56. Draw a scoop of ice cream and an old shoe. 57. Draw an apple, a vacation photo, a hammer and a gold fish. 58. Tighten a C clamp on a banana, draw it 59. Draw an apple, pear, and a banana that is tightly wrapped in aluminum foil, plastic wrap. 60. Draw an apple, pear, and a banana that is tightly wrapped in string. 61. Copy the Mona Lisa. 62. Rearrange the Mona Lisa to suit yourself. 63. Rearrange the Mona Lisa to suit your art teacher. 64. Put Mona Lisa in a contemporary setting. 65. Copy any work of art older than you. 66. Remake the above work of art in your way. 67. Make a drawing that says something about the environment. 68. Make a drawing that says something about the world situation. 69. Make a drawing that is all you. 70. Make a drawing that is totally truthful. 71. Make a drawing that lies all over the place 72. Make a drawing that is completely impossible 73. Draw a portrait inside out 74. Draw an apple, pear, banana inside out. 75. Look out your bedroom window, draw what you see. 76. Look out your bedroom window, draw what you would like to see. 77. Draw an apple, pear, banana that is wrapped in an apple, pear, banana. |
78. Draw a form fitting case made of steel that would fit an apple, pear, banana.
79. Draw two squares of a sidewalk and make it look interesting. 80. Make a detailed drawing of five square inches of grass. 81. Make a detailed drawing of five square inches of hair. 82. Make a detailed drawing of five square inches of a feather. 83. Make a detailed drawing of five square inches of a dollar bill. 84. Make a drawing of grass, hair, feathers and a dollar bill. 85. Draw an insect under a magnifying glass. 86. Rearrange, redesign the insect. 87. Change the size relationship (scale) of the insect and something else (i.e. building, ships, cars) 88. Draw a portrait of your best friend as an insect. 89. Draw a self-portrait of you as a beautiful insect. 90. Draw a family insect portrait. 91. Copy Copley’s Watson and Shark. 92. Change the figures depicted in the Copley painting to people you know. 93. Rearrange Copley’s painting Watson and the Shark to work on dry land. 94. Crumple a magazine ad, draw it 95. Crumple a photograph, draw it. 96. Crumple a drawing, redraw it crumpled. 97. Cut out a photo into small pieces, rearrange the photo in some other order, draw it. 98. Make a drawing that looks sticky. 99. Make a drawing that oozes. 100. Make a drawing of a mechanical structure or machine. 101. Make a drawing of a machine that oozes. 102. Make a drawing of a machine so that the parts are sticky. 103. Make a drawing of a fine mechanical instrument (camera) under water (use your imagination) 104. Draw the Brooklyn Bridge. 105. Draw the Brooklyn Bridge over a small body of water i.e. bathtub. 106. Draw a form fitted case made of wood and lined with velvet for an apple, pear, and a banana. 107. Draw a chair. 108. Draw the concept of the uses of a chair (sitting) without the chair. 109. Draw a bed with the blankets all crumpled. 110. Draw the Minneapolis sky line with the focal point of the cherry and spoon sculpture. 111. Make a drawing that illustrates the phrase “I have come to a juncture in my life” 112. Make a drawing that illustrates the phrase “There is an insufficiency of intellect” 113. Make a careful drawing that illustrates the word “Haste” 114. Draw the imaginary skeleton of an apple, pear, and banana 115. Draw a monument for a bagel. 116. Draw a photograph of an apple, pear, and banana at an angle tilted away from you 117. Draw a portrait of you and your friends as cards; the queen, king, and jack of spades 118. Draw a slice of the best pizza you have ever seen. 119. Make a drawing of all your drawing materials. 120. Make a detailed drawing of a rock. 121. Make a drawing at McDonalds. 122. Draw the reflection from light bouncing off a motorcycle. 123. Draw your portrait from the reflection of a shiny chrome object i.e. toaster, bowl, spoon. 124. Draw the reflection from a body of water. 125. Draw the reflection from a store window. 126. Illustrate a book cover of your favorite book 127. Reflect on your drawing of reflection, draw your retrospection. 128. Draw an aerial view of your back yard 129. Draw a transparent object 130. Draw a translucent object 131. Draw a translucent object that is inside a transparent object 132. Draw a translucent apple, pear, and banana 133. Draw a building in which you would like to live 134. Make a drawing using a map of the USA as a motif 135. Make a portrait of yourself as you see yourself in twenty years 136. Make a pastoral drawing 137. Draw life in the city 138. Draw a mysterious doorway or staircase 139. Drape a mysterious object in cloth, draw it 140. Draw a moving object 141. Draw an empty room, make it interesting 142. Draw a woman wearing a big hat 143. Draw a masked man (not the lone ranger) 144. Draw a sleeping person 145. Draw a flower, make it appear dangerous 146. Draw a person looking out a window 147. Draw a person looking in a window 148. Draw a person reading a letter 149. Draw an apple, pear, and banana in outer space 150. Draw a detailed drawing of a nut and bolt |
Sketchbook Assessment:
2 = Proficient 1 = Needs Improvement 0 = Incomplete Composition/Design: Composition shows understanding and execution of the elements and principles of design. Creativity/Originality: Personal voice is clearly visible; interesting and several thoughtful choices were made. Use of Media: Demonstrates an exceptional understanding of the medium as a drawing tool. Completion and Effort: Fulfilled all requirements of shooting assignment and images strongly represent concepts in assignment. Use of Space: Taking advantage of the full page and incorporated depth. |