𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 📎

• TELL A STORY
  • Make a book cover for your favorite classic novel.
  • Create a series of illustrations that show the passage of time.
  • Illustrate a song.
  • Make a narrative advertisement for a soft drink.
  • Illustrate your favorite childhood memory.
  • Make a children’s book spread for a fairy tale.
  • Illustrate the four seasons.
  • Make a series of black and white “chapter” drawings for a novel.
  • Retell a short story in graphic form.
  • Create a theater poster for a Shakespearean play.
  • Create a series of illustrations that shows a person aging.
  • Make an instructional poster for a favorite recipe.
  • Illustrate a day in the life of a cat, dog, fish, or monkey.
  • Illustrate the seven days of the Creation.
  • Interesting stories to consider: The Odyssey, the Bible, Aesop’s Fables, Edgar Allan Poe, Shakespeare, nursery rhymes.
  • Make a magazine cover for a current news story.
  • Illustrate a famous historical event from: 20 years ago, 100 years ago, 1000 years ago, Prehistoric times

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• ACADEMIC EXERCISES
  • Make an illustration influenced by your favorite illustrator.
  • Paint a landscape with only three colors.
  • Create a painting in a medium you’ve never used before.
  • Paint a self-portrait.
  • Draw a figure in: 1 hour, half hour, 10 minutes, 5 minutes, 1 minute, 30 seconds.
  • Fill a page of your sketchbook.
  • Create two versions of the same painting — one with warm colors, one with cool colors.
  • Sketch in a public place.
  • Paint a traditional still life.
  • Paint the same still life in your illustrative style.
  • Watch how other artists work.
  • Take a class, if there are any available in your area.
  • Research a particular era, artist, or style and create a few paintings influenced by it.
  • Take a trip to a zoo or aquarium to sketch animals from life.

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• PRACTICAL PROJECTS
  • Create a piece of artwork to enter into a competition.
  • Take a moment to archive your traditional paintings through scanning, digital photography, or slides.
  • Backup your digital files to a disk, hard drive, or server.
  • Work on creating samples for styles, markets, and subject matter that you are lacking in.
  • Create stationery for your business.
  • If you are a children’s illustrator, create some coloring pages for your younger fans.
  • Clean your work area.

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• CREATIVE EXERCISES
  • Design a character for a book/movie/tv show.
  • Draw a caricature of your favorite movie star.
  • Illustrate a fortune from a fortune cookie.
  • Make an album cover for your favorite band.
  • Create a modern movie poster for your favorite classic movie.
  • Create a classic movie poster for your favorite modern movie.
  • Paint a landscape painting of an imagined land.
  • Draw a treehouse. Include as much detail as you can.
  • Draw 50 thumbnail sketches of the same object.
  • Make an illustration for each month of the year.
  • Design a deck of (regular or tarot) cards.
  • Make up your own fairy tale land and characters.
  • Research and draw characters‌/objects/settings from: the Mob, the Middle Ages, the Samurai, a Pirate ship.
  • Draw a monster a day for a month.
  • Illustrate a song from the Sixties.
  • Create illustrations of current events and topics such as global warming, airport security, new technology, or education.
  • Illustrate a stereotype.