С днём рождения!!  I wanted to draw you a thing on time for your birthday but I haven’t had much free time I apologize;;  have some dragon bros!!  keep being kind and weird and funny and awesome!!  Желаю, чтобы все твои мечты сбылись!!  ヽ(o♡o)/

1. Collect every piece of scrap paper that you can find for a week - junk mail, shopping lists, old envelopes, post-it notes, cinema/bus/train tickets, receipts, everything. Make them into a hastily bound notebook. Stop worrying about ruining your sketchbooks, about blank white pages being intimidating. There is nothing intimidating about an old shopping list. 
2. Time yourself. 2 minutes. Draw whatever’s in front of you. When the two minutes are up, you have to stop, whether you’re finished or not, whether you like the drawing or not. 
3. Nobody will want to look at your sketchbooks, probably. We all have this ego that thinks people will be fascinated but they’re generally not. So stop worrying if it’s good. 
4. Stop worrying if it’s good anyway. Some of the best pages aren’t ‘good’. They’re interesting and creative and have tons of texture or are really minimal with beautiful colours. They’re not just ‘good’. 
5. Draw the ingredients of your food before you eat it. This has the added benefit of vegetables being more interesting to draw than junk food. 
6. Listen to an audio book and try to fill a sketchbook in the time it takes to listen. Don’t worry about what you’re filling it with, just fill it. (Can’t afford audiobooks? librivox.org has a great collection of classics for free!)
7. Take a pad of post-it notes. When you’re at school, or at work, or eating your dinner, doodle and draw all over them. When you get home, take your post-it drawings and dot them through a sketchbook. Cut bits off of them if you don’t like them, but try to use them all. 
8. Draw nudes. Draw them badly. Take pictures of yourself nude and draw them, draw pornstars, draw art nude references. Draw nudes from famous paintings. Draw them in biro, in pencil, in charcoal, in paint. Draw them in two minutes, then five. Then take an hour.
9. Change up the size of your sketchbook. Go from tiny to A3 and back again. Make yourself a circular one, one with strange proportions. Don’t get stuck in using the same size/make all the time. Experiment.
10. Take five different sorts of art supplies - pens, ink, charcoal, highlighters etc. and make 20 sheets of marks and patterns. Cut them up and use them to collage in your sketchbook.
11. Draw the most technical picture of a bike that you possibly can. Wait two months and try again. Watch how your work changes.
12. Take 5 photos next time you go out. When you get home, use them as a basis for sketchbook pages - draw the actual picture, just use the colours, whatever you want. 
13. Draw words. Don’t write them, draw them. Copy fonts from your computer, do bubble writing, 3d writing. 
14. Make repeated patterns. Draw a shape and repeat it over pages and pages. Then try and make each page different. 
15. Write lists out in your sketchbook - ideas of what to draw, books to read, projects to do, places to go. Draw over some, leave some as they are. 
16. Buy a magazine with colourful, glossy pictures. read it once and then cut/tear out anything that catches your eye. Stick them sporadically through a sketchbook befre you start it. 
17. Draw without taking the pen/pencil/whatever off of the paper. Draw what’s in front of you this way, draw your breakfast, draw your outfit, draw your face. 
18. Write lists of what you want to draw. Write them at work, at school, waiting for the bus. Compile them into one long list to work through. 
19. Draw your jewellery. If you don’t have jewellery, draw your parent’s, draw your partner’s, draw your best friends. Remember that it doesn’t have to look like jewellery when you’re finished. 
20. Pick three different pens/pencils - preferably ones you don’t often use and use them, and only them, to do 5 drawings. And then another five. 
21. Different papers give different effects with the same pen/paint/whatever. Experiment with as many as you can find. 
22. Write notes next to your drawings. Things to try, what you like about it, the first thing that pops into your head. 
23. Copy famous art. Change the colour scheme, crop parts out, change it however you like. 
24. Cover five sheets of paper with stream of consciousness writing. Then tear the pages up and use them to collage into your sketchbook.
25. Doodle constantly, even if it’s shite. 
26. Challenge yourself to draw ten drawings of something you find hard to draw. Draw them badly if you have to, but draw all ten. Then draw ten of something else you find difficult. I’ve done this with hands, peacocks, lions. 
27. Draw people while you’re talking to them. Maybe not in like, a job interview, but with just conversations with friends. Remember that the drawings don’t have to be good.
28. Sit down at your desk/sofa/kitchen table/bed and pick up the first fifteen things that you can reach/are closest to you. Draw them all on the same page. 
29. Make stamps and dot them over the pages. You can make them out of erasers, out of potatoes, out of styrofoam. 
30. If you don’t draw landscapes very often, go outside and start. If you don’t draw people, go outside and start. Drawing in public places is great because everything is moving and you have to be fast- no time to worry if each line is perfect. 
31. Pick a book/magazine/newspaper, anything so long as it has pictures in it. Go through it and use every single image as the basis for a drawing. You might just take the colours, you might crop it, or you might copy it in detail. Your choice. 
32. Draw a mug, a chair, an open book, a plant, and a swing. 
33. Draw patterns, try using different colours together that you wouldn’t usually, use paint with coloured pencils, experiment. 
34. Go to charity shops or carboot sales. They often have things like packs of old/foreign stamps for cheap prices which are great for sticking in your sketchbook. Sometimes that might mean that you accidentally stick a priceless stamp in, but that’s the price you’ve gotta pay for art. 
35. Sit down with a cup of tea and no distractions and really think over what you want to achieve with your art. Take half an hour to think it over, jot down any ideas and then let yourself loose. Sometimes a step back is all you need.
36. Pick 5 tiny things (bugs, buttons, safety pins, pennies, tiny flowers) and draw patterns of them all over pages of your sketchbook. Draw them until you could draw them in your sleep. 
37. Take an old magazine, tear each page out and paint random patterns/words/pictures messily over all of it. Cut them up and stick them in.
38. Draw with your left hand. 
39. Pick 2 colours at random and paint 5 landscapes with them in 1 hour. 
40. Make a cake and draw for the entire time it takes for it to cook. Reward yourself with cake afterwards. 
41. Try to draw adverts/TV shows from your childhood from memory. Write about them and the memories that go with them afterwards. 
42. Draw the same bug/piece of jewellery/whatever ten times without tracing it. Try to get them as similar as humanly possible. 
43. Stop writing feel-good quotes over every page of your art journal. Write things that are gritty and honest and true to yourself, not things that have nothing to do with your own life but sound nice and pretty.
44. Write as many feel-good quotes as you like. Ignore me. It’s your sketchbook/art journal, not mine! You can do what you like in it. And it doesn’t matter if anyone else likes it.
45. Ignore all of your lists and draw anything you feel like! Lists are v. useful but you don’t have to stick by them rigidly.
46. You can still do things when you’re feeling uninspired. Eg. cut out random shapes from cool papers and put them in a bag to use later when you are feeling inspired.
47. Finished painting something and have some leftover paint? Use it up painting patterns/words/doodles on scrap paper or magazine pages.
48. Draw things you’re scared of. Analyse how they’re made, the intricacies of them. 
49. Paint the sky outside your bedroom window every day for a year.
50. Draw your OOTD. Do it once a month, every day, or whenever you just super like what you’re wearing. 
51. Use different sorts of paper. Try sketching on newspaper or old receipts, try painting on photo paper or glossy magazines. It might not always work, but you might find a great combo in there. 
52. Grow a plant from seed and draw it in each stage of growth. 
53. Draw fanart of your favourite TV show. Or your least favourite TV show. Or any TV show. It doesn’t have to be good fanart.
54. Get books out of the library on different drawing/painting/printing techniques. Try them all out! You don’t have to follow their instructions perfectly, just use them for a starting point. 
55. Pick an ancient culture. Draw/paint/collage 10 things based on that culture. The architecture, the costume, the food, the laws, obscure medical facts - anything!
56. Don’t be afraid to leave pages unfinished, or to just stick a piece of paper over an entire page, or two. Sometimes you can’t rescue a page and you just need a blank state.
57. Re-do an old drawing or painting in a completely different colour palette.
58. Draw every plant in your garden. If you don’t have a garden, try going to a garden centre.
59. Draw the same thing from several different time periods. Eg. chairs through the ages.
60. Pick your biggest paint brush and copy 5 famous paintings with it. Make them as blobby and as vague as possible.