One Word Studies
A new daily sketch mission
Hey everyone! 2025 has been great, but It’s also been a year when I’ve done the least amount of Daily Sketching since I started the practice back in 2010. I just got busy with a million things and slipped out of the practice. Ideas, creativity, drawing…these things are NOT like riding a bike. If you stop working them out, like muscles, they will atrophy. I’ve been wanting to get back into daily sketching again but couldn’t find the ideas or inspiration to get the momentum started. So I decided I needed to enlist some help. I searched DRAWING PROMPTS and picked myself a list of 100 one word prompts to give me to some direction. I’ve done two so far and i’m really loving it! It’s exactly what I was looking for to get my gears turning again.
Another part of the early days of the Daily Sketch was that the original art was available to buy as soon as I finished and scanned it. Long before I had a company with employees and a shipping department, I would get to work, draw a piece, scan it, add it to the store, then write a blog about it and post it on social media and let everyone two it was available right then. I’ve decided to bring that back with these One Word Studies. I’m drawing them, then posting and selling them that same morning/day/night.
So, tune into my Instagram account to see the posts as they come in and check in at the store for any pieces that might still be available as I take daily sketching back to the old school!
Before I go, I thought I’d throw up the list I found during my general google search. I got this list from ART MAKES PEOPLE Feel free to join in on the fun!
dog
leg
earth
umbrella
smile
crow
cup
fingers
egg
hair
meal
shoe
leaf
jewelry
blanket
bag
snack
car
candle
tiny
pillow
toilet
pen
building
seashell
bat
favorite
scissors
game
vegetable
you
book
corner
rock
run
phone
fish
paper
tree
fabric
box
dream
petal
spray bottle
road
lips
shoelaces
bug
pattern
cloud
can
skull
mandala
sock
eye
acorn
glasses
music
chair
herbs
planet
guitar
floating
knife
toothpaste
UFO
goose
banana
coffee
floor
mountains
sleeping
holiday
cartoon
bowl
abstract
mushroom
underwear
pocket
flippers
circus
taco
feather
group
landscape
ear
reflection
boat
melon
smell
fairy
graffiti
mask
pasta
list
hat
house
fly
vines
underwater
Been absolutely loving seeing not only the sketches of course but you revitalized and excited to do them! Not only that but seeing them go up for sale right away again is also super fun! Has me and I'm sure everyone else on their toes for any notifications we get now hah. Very much looking forward to seeing this continue as long as it does! Especially with how fun and odd some of these words are hah.
When I need a writing prompt I pull cards out from Apples to Apples. Just another suggestion for you.