Nothing makes me want to get drawing more then watching this video of Stephen Wiltshire complete an 18 ft drawing of New York City based on a single twenty-minute helicopter ride. Seeing all those flowing confident marks build into an incredibly complex and accurate cityscape is hugely fascinating and inspiring.    

Drawing at the Antigonish Landing. #drawtogether

For some motivation and inspiration here are some ideas to keep you drawing:

1. Find the quietest place you can and draw there. See if your drawing can capture a sense of quiet.

2. Find a noisy or populated place and draw there. Can you drawing capture the chaos?

3. Draw something growing from a crack in the pavement, patio stone, or sidewalk.

4. Draw an animal. Do you have a pet? A bird feeder? Know someone with a fish? Complete 6 quick gesture drawings while you observe a majestic creature. 

5. Draw your feet in the grass, sand, or mud.

6. Find a good shadow from a tree, car, person etc. and draw it.

7. Draw something with your non-dominant hand - your sink full of dishes, your mailbox, your shoe etc.

8. Draw the view from across the street from your house or work.

9. Find a work of art somewhere in town and sketch it. You could choose something from the art gallery, library, or find a mural, graffiti, or hand painted sign. 

10. Find a sad looking  tree and try to capture its posture.  What makes it sad?

11. Find a small interesting stone at the beach. Maybe take it home and give it some dramatic lighting from a lamp before you draw.

12. Find a clothes line or a pile of laundry and do a 15 minute contour drawing. 

13. Draw a vegetable

14. Draw a mushroom or bit of moss.

15. Draw the smallest flower you can find.

16. Have a friend sit for you so you can draw them. Return the favour.

17. Sit outside after dark and try to capture a scene in low light.

18. Draw your morning cup or coffee or tea. Spill some on your paper so you know it is real.

19. Draw a garden box or planter in town.

20. Draw a bridge.

21. Draw a Statue.

22. Draw a bug - detailed deceased or live gestural ... you decide.

23. Draw a messy place.

24. Draw a tidy place.

25. Draw an unmowed place, or the tallest grass you can find.

26. Draw a store front.

27. Draw an alleyway.

28. Draw some scaffolding, a ladder, or something runged. 

29. Draw a boat - this could be a canoe, a sail boat, a rubber dingy, paper boat, any kind of floating vessel. 

30. Draw a steeple or top of a building against the sky. 

Check out the article in the Highland Heart Here