Ideas & Inspiration
Creative Prompt Sheet
A sheet of gentle prompts to start making when nothing is coming.
A ready-to-use sheet of starting points for days when the well runs dry. Pick one, set a timer, and begin. Nothing here is a rule — the prompts are invitations.
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Start anywhere
- Draw the last thing you noticed.
- Make something using only three colours.
- Write a page that begins with a sound.
- Make the smallest possible version of your idea.
- Redo an old piece with one change.
- Draw the same view at two different times of day.
- Write down a conversation you overheard, then finish it.
- Make something for one specific person.
- Combine two unrelated objects in one piece.
- Work outside for twenty minutes.
- Limit yourself to one tool.
- Make something you would have made at ten years old.
When you are stuck
- Return to the last piece that felt good and ask why.
- Copy a piece you admire, slowly — then stop copying and continue it in your own way.
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