sdalla:

Me and my friend Victor wanted to start the year with a 30-day challenge, but we couldn’t decide which one, so we whipped up one of our own :D. We’ll try to motivate ourselves and eachother to complete it within 5-7 weeks.

We warmly encourage other people to take the challenge as well! It should be fun. I guess. If you decide to, tag the posts with #art block butt kick, so we can spy on whatever you guys are doing! Yay!

The Challenge

1. Draw yourself as a superhero, along with your animal sidekick
2. Make some squiggles and create 3 monster based on them.
3. Go to random character generator like [this] or [this] and draw the character you get
4. Now develop the character further by drawing a room from their home! Try to include lots of random stuff that tells us even more about the owner’s personality.
5. Paint a picture using colours generated by a random color palette generator like [this] or [this] (or any colour meme you find). You are allowed to use black&white too.
6. Find an interesting photo (either from the internet or your personal library) and do this cutout-exercise
7. Draw an animal that doesn’t really exist.
8. Find interesting textures from your surroundings and incorporate them into an illustration.
9. Go to Serendipity’s city generator and illustrate the environment! Have as much fun as you want with whatever you get, but try to make it a lesson in perspective - you know you need to practice it! :D
10. Draw a garden, jungle, forest or any place with lots of different kinds of flowers and plants.
11. Draw something inspired by a dream.
12. Go to wikipaintings, and select Artwork - Random artwork. Do a self portrait based on the piece you get.
13. Do some life drawing today. People, places, random objects, anything.
14. There are some story generators around the internet, like this one here. Design a book cover or a movie poster for the story you get. If you find it difficult to come up with a title for the book/movie (I know I always struggle with naming my stuff), don’t let it stop you, just use Lorem Ipsum or something :D
15. Inspired by drawgabbydraw- make a watercolor blob and draw something on it, or participate in gabcollab.
16. Fashion day! See magazines, lookbook or some of the gazillion fashion blogs for inspiration, and draw some outfits. If convenient, keep using traditional mediums.
17. Draw something to reflect dictionary.com’s word of the day
18. Draw some character interaction, like a couple, a fight or a group of friends on a road trip.
19. Draw a vehicle of some kind - car, train, bicycle, plane, anything. If you like, you can draw one or more characters as drivers/passengers.
20. Let’s get back to the city and character generators. Get a new city, and a new character, and draw the character interacting with the environment.
21. I know I personally draw way too few animals, so this day is dedicated to drawing all kinds of animals. If you decide to do multiple drawings, try to include at least one bird, one land mammal and one marine creature. Insects are pretty cool to draw too.
22. Re-do one of your old artworks.
23. Another life drawing day - but this time with your non-drawing hand.
24. Do some album cover art for a musician of your choice (existing or imaginary). Include both front and back covers as well as the label in the disc itself.
25. Draw a short comic.
26. Draw a genderswap self portrait
27. Do some light source studies
28. Draw a room from your dream house.
29. Go to random mascot generator, and based on what you get design a package for a new kind of cereal.
30. As for the last one, go to wikipedia and click “Random article”. Now imagine someone writing a story about the person/place/topic/whatever in your random article, and you’re commissioned to illustrate that story. (Don’t cheat! No clicking “Random article” until you get something that seems fun. Do your research on your topic, and if the article is a stub about someone relatively insignificant just use your imagination I suppose :D)