Can't think of an idea.

[pfloyd]

I need an idea for a pencil drawing, but i don't know what to do. I'm entering in a contest, and i feel i can pretty much draw anything i want, but i want to do something original and different from what the average high school boy would draw. I've considered drawing like an old man or a touching image like that, but i feel that's been done too many times before. So, where do you get ideas for drawings? Are there any sites or places you go for inspiration?

[Xeon_OND]

I need an idea for a pencil drawing, but i don't know what to do. I'm entering in a contest, and i feel i can pretty much draw anything i want, but i want to do something original and different from what the average high school boy would draw. I've considered drawing like an old man or a touching image like that, but i feel that's been done too many times before. So, where do you get ideas for drawings? Are there any sites or places you go for inspiration?
How about a portrait of a melancholic-looking woman? :D
Or maybe something which looks like the style of Sargent's Madam X. Or just draw something semi-abstract like Matisse's line-art of females.

Or maybe a drawing of the 4 horsemnn of Apocalypse, showing Hitler, Bush, Osama etc as the riders.

[Zirngibism]

Check out some of the Daily Sketch Group topics-- they have some pretty creative stuff.

Though in all honesty, since you only need to come up with one original idea, you should do something that means something to you. Take something from your life and combine it with something you've always wanted to have, or do. If you really care about what you're drawing, I'd say most good judges can tell.

[SR-5]

Or grab a dictionary.

Close your eyes, open the dictionary, flip through it until you decide it is time to point your finger at some random word, open your eyes to see what word you chose, and then let that word inspire you to draw from it.

All ideas has to start from somewhere.



- 5000.

[George Abraham]

"I cracked open my mental block and look what I found"

[Bruce Pluto]

Pfloyd,

It’s a little satire-istic but you’ve hit upon one of the major issues I’ve seen posted here quite often on CA. It seem kinda funny that you’re wanting an original idea from another person. Wouldn’t that make it not original ?

I think what you’re really asking for is idea help. Maybe something not original but different and I think I may have a solution to not only assist you on this project but others as well. Creative Block is something that many people suffer and struggle through, and although I can’t help you with that what I can show you is how I deal with not getting Creative Block very often. Actually, my problem is just the opposite. I don’t have enough time to do everything I want to do.

One good way I have found to get art ideas is to view thumbnail pictures. And I’m talking not just about artwork but actual photographs. From a small photo or art picture sometimes you can’t really see what the image is about, but you CAN tell if it attracts your interest. From a small picture you can discern, proportion, balance, light, composition…..and so on. When viewing a small thumbnail picture or something use your own imagination to speak to you what the image is about.

A lot of times if you view the image up close it really isn’t what you thought if was at all. The images is something completely different. So in a way you’ve actually created your own idea. This does not have to be limited to viewing pictures or photographs. You can do the same thing while viewing nature or wood paneling. I know that sounds funny but have you ever looked at wood grain and seen an image pop out at you?

Anyway, I guess the meat of what I’m saying is to use what’s around you to get you to start thinking in an artistic direction. Once you start doing this then you might become overloaded with creative ideas.

Bruce

[Baron Impossible]

A nun sucking an amputee monkey's stump

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[JeffX99]

A nun sucking an amputee monkey's stump

OK - LOL!
pfloyd - sorry man - can't come up with one for you...I'm already behind on the 3.5B I have to do for myself.

Sorry - don't mean to be sarcastic, maybe with that out of the way I can offer somehting useful. Don't overthink it - just draw whatever comes to your mind - don't worry about whether it is something a typical high-schooler would draw, whether it is original, etc. Don't make every little drawing too special - don't even make major drawings too special. If you continue in art you'll be making thousands of them - per year! So don't sweat it - just go for it.

[squidmonk3j]

Don't think of it as "getting" ideas, aspire to -make- ideas.

Synthesize. Combine concepts, words and ideas - it's all about rearrangement. Learning how to bridge separate and different ideas will increase your imagination's muscle mass. You don't have to create an entirely new language, so to speak. You just have to make new and interesting constellations.

Treat it like a game. Take any two boring, mundane words, like "pig" and "showel", and play around with how you can meld these two words together into one conseptualization. Your brain is hardwired to make sense of things - give it a challenge!

[Dusty]

Lillybog of the Turnip People: Turnip shaped, Flame red hair, One large arm with a hoe in it (used for farming turnips), one biomechanical arm to blast moles, 2 tiny legs with rain boots (it's muddy in those turnip fields), and a pet grasshopper named Turducken.

....I dunno. Just think of random shit.

[Lightship69]

you could just have a look at the competition bits at the forum front end and have a go at them !?

if its good enough you could use that or if you really want to mess things up mix them and draw what comes out of the mix, weird but fun sometimes.

Good luck

Lightship69

[OmenSpirits]

draw me a goblin.

draw me a goblin from the 16th century.

draw me a goblin from the 16th century from India.

draw me a goblin from the 16th century from India that haunts children.

Think about the details I've given. Now, how would you go about completing my request?

You'd have to research. Look for information from India, info concerning goblins or whatever they were called which would be apart of your research.

Find images, look at paintings done of demons from that era. Within the research, both written and visual, your sense of design will be influenced by the subject of the assignment.

^This^

:yayca:

[LORD M]

A dizzy, brass sea serpent, friends with a shop clerk, licks a rubber chicken outside a shop

An annoying madman bathes hundreds of cane toads


Click for inspiration.
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