Drawing Practice: Give me a total of 100 ideas to draw to see if I get any better by the 100th drawing.

Apparently pottery students who just throw clay without any explicit instruction get competent really quickly compared to people who agonize over every pot, so I'm going to try to get better at drawing by spending less than 10 minutes drawing things other people suggest.

So please post your sketch requests (along with any photo references) and I'll try and see if this angst-free approach works. Feel free to join in if you also want to get good at art with low effort.

Please draw a trainbat

As someone currently taking a pottery class, I can say that it is kinda true. Just a shame I had to take a 4 month break in between.

Drawing idea - a dog wearing a cowboy hat

draw a half-peeled banana

1. Thomas the Trainbat
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/pyvdc9zg6yk.jpeg

yessss

thank you dearly Philip Nunez

2. cowboy hat (more like 1930s reporter hat) dog
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/6yxkcxvkg7w.jpg

sheruff imo

3. Bananarama
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/b49zcke9vyw.jpg

I am enjoying these drawings so much I am opening them in new tabs to look at them properly! (browser issue probably)

Please draw a fight between two Zodiac signs of your choosing

But... the beauty of this technique is I don't choose (hence no "writer's block")!

Virgo, Sagittarius

it is written

Can you draw a troll bearing the weight of ILX on its shoulders, Atlas-style?

Please draw someone fishing a comb out of a half-empty jar of mayonnaise.

Drawing suggestion: someone tripping and falling into a swimming pool

Cat on a skateboard

(Also, these are great!)

4. Zodiac Fighter II
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/w7pjcmbd37p.jpg

drawing suggestion with crossover to the old sayings thread: an embarrassed child letting the cat out of the bag

Draw grim reaper driving in a car listening to rap.

Like the entire band?

5. Danny DeViTroll holds up ILX in the manner of Greek myth
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/p7bwcj3lr7n.png

Geddy Lee's head on a bear's body

Philip, it looks like some are done in ink and some are done in charcoal. What media are you using, and how do you choose? Any preferred materials?

I took a local evening drawing class once and was pretty bad at the exercises (still lifes of bottles, blocks and such); this approach looks like more fun.

The ink is just a uniball office gel pen on used printer paper. The DeVito one is on a tablet. I tried buying some fancy pencils but they never made me any better or inspired me to draw more than say those free pencils from ikea, but they're definitely nice to use. I'd say if you want to follow along, you should grab whatever is handy at the time -- the basic rule is to throw out and ignore any obstacle to just cranking out a drawing as quickly and painlessly as possible.

Of course if having your favorite gear at the ready inspires you to draw more, do that!

Excellent work!

3xp

A chipmunk next to a mushroom

I'm into this, i did the chipmunk & mushroom one

I don't want to take any thunder away from Philip who started this tho!

Y'know, there's a book I own that follows along these lines of progressing by drawing very, very quickly different subjects (much more banal than here, obviously). It's called Cartooning: Philosophy & Practice. Never got through it, but really should pick it up again - it's excellent.

k, i think i'll just post mine

https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/3yrgc5bqb4z.png

Someone please draw a melting Empire State Building

Nice chipmunk/mushie combo!

so what is the thought on using reference? i'm thinking like do it if you think it's a good use of some of yr 10 min?

6. Fishing comb from half-empty jar of mayo
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/w7pjcm8na7p.PNG

I'm obviously making very liberal use of reference -- given the time constraints, the decision to freehand or reference any part of a drawing becomes very automatic!

that rules

These are amazing

I'm digging Chippy's shades and Hawaiian shirt.

looooool, so much better than what I'd imagined

https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/84jdczrxm4k.png
Someone tripping and falling into a swimming pool

it's funny with the squirrel, i wanted to break things up by putting clothes on him, and the Dale character (with his hawaiian shirt) from Rescue Rangers just comes right out as subconscious shorthand

that last one looks like a Playboy cartoon

Draw the band GWAR playing at a wedding

7. Embarrassed child lets cat on skateboard out of bag

https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/b49zckppxyw.jpeg

8. Death driving while rapping

https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/6yxkcxmmr7w.jpeg

these are awesome, love the humor

this is my current fav thread

Amazing! that steering wheel is 👌

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Strong 'Bacon's Velazquez' energy.

Too kind!

serious prompt:

dick and balls

and NO doing dick tracy with bouncy balls!

it has to be a penis complete with 2 balls

A bearded man wearing a utilikilt and vibram finger shoes riding a single-wheel electric scooter while vaping

Scooby Doo being arrested for securities fraud

lol

a perfect 100th drawing will combine all of these prompts in a way that just barely makes sense

that is a pretty dang good drawing of zuck, though! thank u ^___^

24. Brain escapes villain’s head via his eye

https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/g4z9c8eg872.jpeg

yesssssss

the brain searches for a new host

serious prompt:

dick and balls

Take another look at the Lovecraft drawing

oh, took a good look

25. Reality star Edmund Hillary with friend Tenzing Norgay
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/myd5czkom4b.jpeg

26. Child’s piggy bank on a spit roast
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/pyq9c5akg42.jpeg

I love it!

27. Slim Pickens riding literal dick and balls to Armageddon (NSFW, view at your peril)
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/myd5cz9ar4b.jpeg

In retrospect I should have had Slim use the balls as footrests, but I’ll let Kubrick redraw this 1000 times to get it right.

28. Bearded utilikit vibram shoes commentariat vaping while uniscootering
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/d7ogc8qoey9.jpeg

Even dorkier Zuckerberg actually looks cooler somehow

west coast cool jazz bandleader vibes

With a little Karl Marx thrown in for good measure.

Danny Glover being choked by Pauly Shore in the shower

heart eyes emoji

29. SNAX pump and dumper Scooby Doo does the perp walk
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/l7lxcgxp37o.jpeg

i remember scoob before he turned to a life of crime, before he started using that filthy language

Scooby snacks are a helluva drug

lol thank you so much

back with another one of those rose rucking kids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTxOKsyZ0Lw

An ostrich wearing a “Real ostriches don’t bury their head in the sand” T-shirt, please.

30. The Weasel chokes Danny Glover in the shower. (Nipples only but still possibly NSFW)
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/pyvdcbjpxyk.jpeg

I am in awe

how are you feeling at the 30% mark? are they getting easier or is more like you're getting more efficient so it feels like you have more time?

Feeling a bit like Danny Glover, feeling a bit like Pauly Shore.
I don’t think I’m getting any faster or even better but I definitely feel more confident when starting a drawing that it’s going to be finished.

The drawings are fantastic.

31. Daphne from Scooby Doo receiving a bouquet of dead flowers

31. Ostrich with clever shirt
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/j7mmcwkrm76.jpeg

32. Daphne and her suitor
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/3yrgcklzw4z.jpeg

Thank you!!

a hollow human heart floating on water

Amazing

brilliant imaginative stuff

33. Hollow human heart photobombs cover shoot for slint’s seminal album
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/pyq9cgdmn42.jpeg

on the left, a person at a computer asking a computer to draw a human drawing the request of a human at a computer
on the right, a computer

What’s great about the gestational gap before that last one is I forgot I requested it! I it’s amazing! :D

Someone else should do a request, I didn’t mean to hog two in a row!

From Homemade Jokes

I have a homemade Far Side cartoon joke in my head, called something like "Clown Cemetery", which shows a row of burial plots and gravestones, except each plot has a pair of long clown shoes poking out of the earth (because the clowns are buried in their clown shoes, but not deep enough underground, haha?)

― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, July 2, 2022 10:05 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

you should post the clown cartoon to Drawing Practice: Give me a total of 100 ideas to draw to see if I get any better by the 100th drawing.

― budo jeru, Saturday, July 2, 2022 10:20 PM (forty-four seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

(but only if you want to!)

34. Bernie discovers AI
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/wye3c68dk4b.jpeg

i'm only seeing this now, great job! i hope you never stop posting your drawings here

MichaeJackolantern Golgotha

i hope you never stop posting your drawings here

otm

Thanks for the kind words!

35. Gary Larson tribute
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/my2pcl8pr7j.jpg

36. Jack-O-Lamentation
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/j7kzc2mv27m.jpg