Q&A for How to Think of What to Draw

This will vary from person to person. Some people find that they get the most ideas in the morning, while others find that they get more ideas in the evening. You should draw whenever feels most comfortable for you. If you don't know what time feels comfortable for you, try drawing just after watching a movie, listening to a song, or reading a book.

Not at all! You could be creative and add some colors of your own. It may look strange, but it would give you a chance to try out some cool colors.

Patience is key. Try taking your time and focusing on how you want to draw it. Stop every minute or two to look over your drawing and see if there is anything you need to fix. Set an alarm to do so if necessary. Your drawings will always look better if you take your time.

Think about places or pieces of art you have seen, a pet, animal, person, or just something meaningful to you, like a flower vase passed down from your grandmother.

Look at other people's drawings to make copying their work easier. Look up on Google, "Things to draw" and you will get lots of interesting ideas. Look around you for inspiration -- your room, your family, your pets, the world outside.

Draw it in a way that expresses something sad. For example, draw an anatomical heart, but fragmented for heartbreak.

Keep practicing, and you'll improve. You can take art classes, read books, and study other artwork in your genre to help, too.

The same way as any other characters, just use darker colors to color the picture, or if you want, shade them in if it's just a pencil drawing.

Whatever you want! Draw something you have drawn before, copy a place you've visited or want to see, or draw after from an art book.

Your imagination is your answer. Think of something in nature that you especially like: an animal, a bird, a flower, a tree, a sunset. Focus on that one thing, just from your memory, and start drawing it.

Look around you. It doesn't have to be a deep expression from your heart to be worth drawing, and something like your desk lamp could always be just the warm-up you need.

It depends on whether you want it to be a realistic or an abstract piece. If you want it to be realistic, think of the most confusing time of your life and draw it from maybe a first person or third person view. If you want it to be more abstract, try using hazier or blurred colors that form random shapes and patterns. Muted and neutral colors would work well. You could also try a combination, like a blurry scene that looks a little realistic, but also a little off. Remember that art is understood differently by different people, so what may look exactly like confusion to you may look like something completely different to someone else (and that's okay!).

Both can play an important part, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't practice and then decide to draw a picture when you're 30. You do have to practice to get better at drawing.

Try again. Drawings often don't come out looking exactly like you want them to on the first try. Keep practicing and your drawing will improve.

It depends on your relationship with your friend. If you've had a fight recently, flowers are good. For a birthday or other celebration, drawings of the two of you together. Things they like are also good. Check out dragoart.com for some great tutorials.

I'd say either just take a picture and if the car is moving too fast to get a good picture then try to find a similar picture online. You could try to draw it from memory but sometimes that doesn't work out too well, especially if you have a bit of a bad memory like me.

Draw the outline lightly in pencil, then outline it boldly in pen/marker/colored pencil. Color the basic colors (lightly) and use darker colors for the shadows (e.g. tan and brown). For highlights, either use white or color lightly.

Yes, if you remember them. It can be harder than drawing things that exist or things that you can copy from a computer since you have to rely on your memory.

Take a photo of your face first and copy it on the paper. Then, take a photo of you looking at the mirror, and copy your body on the same paper.

Drawing a variety of subjects is the best way to develop your skills. Try drawing some three dimensional forms as well as some two dimensional ones.

Practice! Practice is the key to improvement. You can also look up YouTube videos featuring drawing tutorials.

Just use simple lines in the places where wrinkles usually are: trouser legs and sleeves. Do a Google Image search on wrinkled clothing to see where they typically occur when the body is in various positions.

Practice will help with drawing more realistic pieces. You can trace body templates to help train your hand how to draw like that.