Drawing ideas for when you don't know what to draw.

Sometimes you bust out your sketch book and you don't know exactly know what to draw or what you should be drawing. This is always funny to me as there are more possibilities in the imagination than there are in the real world, so there actually should be more ideas to draw than there are 'things' to draw in real life. I always find myself stumped by thinking of overwhelming ideas that might be technically hard to execute or thinking 'everything has been done'.

With that thought aside, here are 3 drawing ideas which might help you think of some shit to draw if you can't think of anything.

I dunno... just trying to give you ideas :)]

Here's a drawing idea... draw the room you are in and/or the things in it.

The stuff around you is stuff which is instantly accessible and there to help you skill up. It's probably going to feel tedious or pointless (booooooring right) no, but trying to draw objects in different ways gives you a shit tonne of exercises which help your overall drawing skill. You can try to capture the lighting, the gesture, the weight of an object or even the colour. No one has to see it either, if it looks janky, chuck it in the bin, but that drawing incrementally helped you on your path to mastery, m8. Trying to make a still life look stylish is also a fun exercise. Drawings don't need to have action, figures or characters or whatever, check out these awesome still life murals by Aryz as an example as what may be seen as 'boring' subject matter executed in mad style and skill, making for awesome art. 

It seems Aryz always exactly knows what to draw.

Hmmm here's another drawing idea... draw yourself.

Take a selfie then try and draw that shit. Doing self portrait studies are always beneficial. There is a lot to learn by simply drawing yourself. Lighting, facial structure, value, colour. Try and pull some ridiculous expressions and capture them, or do a stylised portrait and have some fun with it.. 

Yeah righto one last drawing idea, then I'm gonna draw and practice what I preach..

Draw a story or scenario.. but in an uncomfortable way.

Moving into the realms of the uncomfortable should always be a challenging and rewarding experience. Try and illustrate sitting on your head or hanging off the back of a moving train. Just kidding. That's fucking stupid and not even funny, how about trying to draw some shit that is uncomfortable as in it is something you haven't explored before, such as drawing a dog if you are obsessed with cats. Try and incorporate a background into your work that has perspective, if you usually do character based drawings. Try something different, but something that you feel is going to be hard and challenging, because doing the same shit over again makes you stale and boring.. and by definition insane,

Yeah I probably should listen to my own words.. but maybe I am insane