Drawing & Creativity Challenges

Not sure what to make? Choose a challenge below and interpret it in your own way. You can draw, paint, collage, build, or combine materials. There is no single correct solution.

Imagine a New World

1. Design a postage stamp for the first letter mailed to Mars.
2. Create a new species of fish.
3. Draw the best dream you have ever had.
4. Draw the most memorable nightmare you have ever had.
5. Imagine you are a scuba diver who has made an exciting underwater discovery. What did you find?
6. Draw an undiscovered bird living in the jungle.
7. Imagine you see pictures in the clouds. What do you see?
8. Space explorers have discovered flowers growing on one of Jupiter’s moons. What do they look like?
9. Construct a city on another planet.
10. Draw your idea of paradise.

Design Something

11. Design a robot that does a chore you dislike.
12. Design a shopping bag for the fanciest store in the world.
13. Design a family crest that communicates something about you and your family.
14. Design your dream bedroom.
15. Design a trophy. Who would receive it, and why?
16. Design a wrapper and invent a name for a delicious new candy bar.
17. Design transportation for the next century.
18. Create a garden for a brand-new home.
19. Design a boat or ship in which you would travel around the world.
20. Design a new building to become the centerpiece of a city skyline.
21. Design a modern-style house.
22. Design a house that is underground.

Invent, Combine & Transform

23. Create an invention that will change people’s lives.
24. Create a hybrid animal by combining two or more animals.
25. Create the most interesting sandcastle ever seen.
26. Use at least three of your favorite songs as inspiration for one picture.
27. If you had one million dollars, what would you do with it? Show your answer in an artwork.

Tell a Story

28. Imagine you performed a heroic deed. Draw the front page of a newspaper telling the story.
29. Illustrate a scene from a movie, book, or video game.
30. Draw yourself in a scene from any time in the past.
31. Create a poster advertising your favorite movie.
32. Draw a garden from an insect’s point of view.

Imagine Yourself

33. If you looked into a crystal ball, what might your future look like?
34. Imagine it is your birthday. Draw the present you would want most.
35. What might you look like in twenty years?

Try this: Pick one challenge, make three tiny sketches with different solutions, and then choose one idea to develop.