Nothing- That good old sign of creative block. You're finally sitting down to do some art- to draw, to paint, to sketch, to write, to make clay, to animate...Whatever. There's only one problem...You have no idea what to do next.
Have no fear! Below, I have taken 25 ideas from a running list of projects I constantly update to dig myself out of this scenario and shared them with you all! Having a 'wing it' list for creative block is really helpful in spurring your ideas forward.
It's also worth mentioning that research holds that the best creative thinking your brain does is right after you start feeling BORED. If you need ideas for creativity, relax and force yourself to sit without the aid of a phone or tablet for distraction. As you start to get bored, your brain may surprise you!
1. Art that is done with mainly cool colors, but the subject is typically in a warm color (such as a bunch of blue and green strawberries)
2. The above's reverse (such as a red and yellow snow scene)
3. Something using one color plus white (called a Monochromatic study)
4. A portrait, but upside-down.
5. A multi-panel work (2-3 panels). The panels cannot, however, be the same shape!
6. A piece that describes your favorite title of a book or movie or play (for me this could be a piece titled, "The Alchemist", or "Hook", but may have nothing to do with either the aforementioned movie or book)
7. A piece out of a scene of your life in which you were really scared
8. A piece of food (such as a painting of your favorite meal)
9. Try and capture a single emotion as art. Such as a sculpture of "Playful"
10. A piece that focuses on a particular shape (either modern or not)
11. A piece in the style of a particular artist (a painting using Rembrandt's color palette, for example)
12. A piece based upon one line of lyrics from a favorite song.
13. A piece that describes a famous person (anything from a still life of Abe Lincoln's hat to a sculpture of Einstein's Ink well and pen)
14. A piece that incorporates words (perhaps a poem)
15. A piece that combines two of your favorite stories in one panel
16. A piece that is backlit (light source is in the background)
17. A re-imagination of a title (such as the New England Patriots as Minutemen playing football)
18. An object in a setting it would never sit in (a fighter pilot landed in ancient Egypt)
19. A funny pun (such as a Board Game made of wooden boards)
20. A piece of a relative that you never met but share lineage, such as a great grandparent
21. Find a complete stranger, ask them the first word that comes to mind, and then go off of that
22. A piece based upon a mystery/horror story/ ghost story you were scared of as a kid
23. A re-interpretation of a fable/parable/nursery rhyme
24. A self portrait of you, but in 20 years
25. Two animals, combined into one (such as a sea-zebra)
Happy Art-ing!
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