grabbed from Phil McAndrew's big list of stuff to draw

"The list can also be used as a way to challenge yourself, to improve your drawing chops. Find something that you're afraid to draw or that you've never tried to draw before and draw it. Find something you think would be really boring to draw (a ceiling fan? a chain link fence?) and find a way to make it interesting and fun. Find something you've drawn a million times and force yourself to draw it differently in some way. Or take a bunch of things from the list and combine them in one drawing."

**~alternative~** use the list as inspiration for things to write about

• books (and people reading them)
• trophies (champion of ___!)
• statues (who deserves to to be immortalized as a statue?)
• dogs
• naked people
• all of houses you've lived in
• sad people
• bicycles
• your neighbors
• mounted animal heads
• a map of the world (try it from memory!)
• bugs
• people covered with tattoos
• fancy jewelry
• super wrinkly old people
• cats
• big spooky old houses
• Guy Fieri eating things he isn't supposed to eat (rocks, his sunglasses, toothpaste, etc)
• pizza (with unusual toppings?)
• people at the beach
• trees
• tree forts
• forest people
• newspapers (and people reading them)
• monsters
• people on skateboards (and falling off of them)
• people playing drums
• slugs
• sandwiches
• skulls
• bottles (full of beverages or potions or poison or water)
• fancy cakes
• tombstones or coffins
• cool shoes
• a map of your city or town
• computers (or devices with lots of buttons and wires)
• different kinds of chimneys (and people climbing out of them)
• crying children (why are they crying?)
• motorcycles
• witches
• animals with antlers
• people playing poker (what does a good poker face look like? what does a desperate gambler look like?)
• every teacher you've ever had (from memory)
• snakes (did they eat something interesting recently?)
• chairs and tables
• cacti
• hotdogs
• different kinds of hats
• people falling out of boats
• ghosts
• swords
• people in the middle of dental procedures
• horses
• people singing badly
• wizards
• umbrellas
• fictional sons of Mitt Romney (Chad Romney, Wipp Romney, Burp Romney, etc)
• coins
• stupid hair styles
• self portraits (what will you look at the age of 100?)
• vegetables
• flags for fictional countries
• birds doing stuff that birds aren't supposed to do
• pencils
• sweaty, out of breath joggers
• your worst fears
• people lifting weights
• sea shells
• house plants
• people playing basketball
• turkeys
• tentacles coming out of containers, bags, windows, etc
• airplanes
• fancy crowns
• fictional members of your family
• dinosaurs
• people "doing science" (test tubes! strange chemicals! microscopes!)
• musical instruments
• castles
• teenagers
• snooty butlers carrying things on trays (telephones, food, unopened envelopes, small people)
• animals wearing glasses
• a volcanic island
• people with ice cream cones
• candles
• people standing behind one of those cartoony x-ray screens
• things that lives in caves and holes
• cardboard boxes
• your worst enemy
• a painter standing at an easel, painting something from life (nude model? landscape?)
• babies holding guns
• suits of armor
• fictional candy bars
• spaceships
• labels for fictional beers
• astronauts
• ears
• people with tons of facial piercings
• the moon
• forks and knives and spoons
• people with briefcases hoping no one knows what's inside the briefcase
• the aftermath of a car accident
• a snowman
• playing cards
• an idiot playing piano
• aliens
• microscopic organisms
• people skiing
• snails
• demons
• a fictional game show host
• sushi
• sewer people
• government spy drones
• a sentient brick wall
• coffee mugs
• a bow and arrow shoot-out
• a ferris wheel
• a fish tank
• booby traps
• swamp creatures
• Jay Leno weeping quietly while looking at his reflection in a mirror
• people slipping on banana peels
• balloons
• people with crutches or limbs in casts
• boogers
• pole-vaulters
• people stranded on desert islands
• a dog in handcuffs, surrounded by police
• turtles
• mountains
• things popping out of toasters (bread, pizza, books, etc)
• skeletons
• flowers
• people trapped in the belly of a whale
• Frankenstein's monster
• a terrarium
• people smooching
• people knitting scarves
• grumpy bartenders
• tents in the woods
• arctic explorers
• bridges
• a television set (what's on tv?)
• people working in gardens
• people stepping on bee hives
• a toothbrush
• PEZ dispensers
• tourists
• your childhood bedroom
• people digging holes
• a stamp collector and their stamps
• a person being eaten alive by feral dogs
• people wrapped in blankets
• bookshelves
• whatever you had for breakfast
• comfy armchairs
• abandoned buildings
• icebergs
• discarded underwear
• carnivorous furniture
• ducks
• hermits and their hermit houses
• hamburgers
• lizard men
• campfires
• people smoking pipes
• cliffs by the ocean
• people waiting in line to use the bathroom
• animals in hiding after escaping from a zoo
• dogs trying to reach food on tables
• garbage cans
• slime creatures
• crabs
• fictional members of the Wu-Tang Clan
• different types of helmets
• logs
• ceiling fans
• Rush Limbaugh's stupid face
• palm trees
• proud looking guys with flannel shirts and tool belts and hard hats and no pants
• dentures
• skeleton keys
• binoculars
• giant objects crashing into earth (giant baby, giant motorcycle, giant anvil, etc)
• exercise machines that could be mistaken for torture devices
• things hatching out of eggs (birds, lizards, guys in business suits, etc)
• animal skin rugs
• people blindly trying to find their missing glasses
• hockey players
• people flying around with jetpacks
• squirrels trying to drag things up into trees (an entire pizza, a piano, an old man, etc)
• proud idiot gun owners posing with guns
• vehicles that are shapes like food (hotdog car, banana car, pretzel car, etc)
• clocks
• chain link fences
• donuts
• people wearing ridiculous puffy shirts
• dartboard with darts in it (or around it)
• people being thrown or falling through glass windows