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This little exercise came about one night when me and my wife ate out. We got our left-overs put in a styrofoam container and I proceeded to write my name on mine. I noticed how silky smooth the ball point pen wrote on the surface of the styrofoam and continued to draw on it until I had doodled a completed piece of artwork.

Your assignment is to take a styrofoam cup or container and completely cover the surface with an illustrative design. Anything goes, get creative, be unique and have fun.

Note: These exercises were developed for a class setting but can easily work for the individual. If you use this for a group of people make sure to share everyones work at the end, it fun to see how each others character comes out and is usually good for a few laughs as well.

Keywords: Creative, Exercise, Styrofoam, Cup

File Size: 370KB

We’ve all done this at some point. Laying on our back in the grass looking up into the sky trying to see things in the clouds. The art of being able to take an abstract shape and use it to see what it was not intended to be. Your assignment is to take the negative spaces provided on the templete in this download and draw what isn’t there. Be creative, push yourself and have fun.

Note: These exercises were developed for a class setting but can easily work for the individual. If you use this for a group of people make sure to share everyones work at the end, it fun to see how each others character comes out and is usually good for a few laughs as well.

Keywords: Creative, Exercise, See, Hidden, Doodle

File Size: 268KB

Your assignment is to collaborate with at least two other people in the process of creating the art. The template included requires one person to the draw the ‘Head and Shoulders’ another to draw the ‘Torso and Arms’ and then another to draw the ‘Legs, Hands and Feet’. The trick is neither of you can see what the other has drawn. The template ensures everything lines up. It’s a fun and easy exercise.

Note: These exercises were developed for a class setting but can easily work for the individual. If you use this for a group of people make sure to share everyones work at the end, it fun to see how each others character comes out and is usually good for a few laughs as well.

Keywords: Creative, Exercise, Doodle, Fold

File Size: 508KB

Your assignment is to mimick the ‘Surrealist’ style of Salvador Dali. Your exercise is to draw a dream. It can be based on a real one you’ve had or just make something up. The wierder the better. Think of this art as a visual representation of a bizarre dream captured on paper. This is a drawing exercise so no color. Have fun with it, distort reality.

Note: These exercises were developed for a class setting but can easily work for the individual. If you use this for a group of people make sure to share everyones work at the end, it fun to see how everyone interpreted the same themes and is usually good for a few laughs as well.

Keywords: Creative, Exercise, Style, Mimick, Dali, Surreal

File Size: 1.5MB

Your assignment is to mimick the ‘Cubism Style’ of Pablo Picasso. You’ll be drawing the three topics shown below. Get funky with it, play around with thick and thin lines and solid areas of black. This is a drawing exercise so no color. Keep it simple black and white.

3 Drawing Topics
- Dog or Cat
- Human (Full figure or just from the shoulders up)
- Bowl of Fruit

Note: These exercises were developed for a class setting but can easily work for the individual. If you use this for a group of people make sure to share everyones work at the end, it fun to see how everyone interpreted the same themes and is usually good for a few laughs as well.

Keywords: Creative, Exercise, Style, Mimick, Picasso, Cubism

File Size: 488KB

Your assignment is to draw each of the four listed items below using only shapes and form. (No line or tonal shading) Pay attention to the negative space you are creating, try to capitalize on that and make it work with your shapes, this is the tricky part but if done well you can define just as much content with what you draw as you can by what you don’t draw.

5 Drawing Topics
- Robot
- Pirate
- Ninja
- Monkey

Note: These exercises were developed for a class setting but can easily work for the individual. If you use this for a group of people make sure to share everyones work at the end, it fun to see how everyone interpreted the same themes and is usually good for a few laughs as well.

Keywords: Creative, Exercise, Shape, Form

File Size: 408KB

Your assignment is to draw a continuous line drawing of each of the five listed items below. The key to this style is that it be one single continuous line that makes up the entire illustration. It can overlap but visually it has to be one line without any breaks. Sounds simple but it can be tricky.

5 Drawing Topics
- Light Bulb
- Lizard
- Fish
- Car
- Face/Head

Note: These exercises were developed for a class setting but can easily work for the individual. If you use this for a group of people make sure to share everyones work at the end, it fun to see how everyone interpreted the same themes and is usually good for a few laughs as well.

Keywords: Creative, Exercise, Linear, Lines, Continuous

File Size: 344KB

Same as ‘Doodle Sheet 1′ just a new template and sample images included.

Exercise your creative muscle. There are eight wiggly lines in the ‘Doodle_Sheets.pdf’ included in this download. Your assignment is to draw a doodle incorporating the pre-existing line into your doodle. What you’ll end up with is eight individual doodles in all. There is no right or wrong, good or bad just have fun and allow yourself to be creative.

Don’t look for the easy way out, force your mind to explore other possibilities. Any orientation whether vertical, horizontal, upside down or side ways is acceptable.

Note: These exercises were developed for a class setting but can easily work for the individual. If you use this for a group of people make sure to share everyones work at the end, it fun to see how everyone interpreted the same themes and is usually good for a few laughs as well.

Keywords: Creative, Exercise, Doodle, Wiggly

File Size: 512KB

Exercise your creative muscle. There are eight wiggly lines in the ‘Doodle_Sheets.pdf’ included in this download. Your assignment is to draw a doodle incorporating the pre-existing line into your doodle. What you’ll end up with is eight individual doodles in all. There is no right or wrong, good or bad just have fun and allow yourself to be creative.

Don’t look for the easy way out, force your mind to explore other possibilities. Any orientation whether vertical, horizontal, upside down or side ways is acceptable.

Note: These exercises were developed for a class setting but can easily work for the individual. If you use this for a group of people make sure to share everyones work at the end, it fun to see how everyone interpreted the same themes and is usually good for a few laughs as well.

Keywords: Creative, Exercise, Doodle, Wiggly

File Size: 492KB

Your assignment is to read the ‘Mad Libs’ included in this download, then pick the ‘Father Goose Rhyme’ you’d like to illustrate. Take 30 minutes or so creating a black and white illustration (Think Doodles) that reflects all or part of the ‘Mad Lib’ as you would visually interpret it to be. Have fun, get a little goofy and don’t let reality hold you back. Also provided in this download is a link to a site where you can create your own custom ‘Mad Libs’ to use if you prefer.

Note: These exercises were developed for a class setting but can easily work for the individual. If you use this for a group of people make sure to share everyones work at the end, it fun to see how everyone interpreted the same themes and is usually good for a few laughs as well.

Keywords: Creative, Exercise, Mad, Goose

File Size: 240KB