With the right attitude and a little imagination, you might just be surprised at how much fun you can have while exploring your creative space. Good luck! 😉
20 Artistic Prompts to Get You Through a Creative Slump
That is if you can come up with something to create at all. When you depend on your creativity day after day, it’s not uncommon to hit a wall in your inspiration.
This constant repetition can be mentally exhausting.
There’s good news, though: creativity is never lost, just hiding. You just need some way to jumpstart it.
That’s why we’ve rounded up a list of twenty artistic prompts that can help spark your imagination and get you back on your feet after a creative slump.
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1) Draw What You Eat Today
Looking for an easy art prompt? Why not try drawing what you ate today? Drawing can be a great way to express yourself, and the best part is that it doesn’t have to be perfect to be meaningful. Plus, you don’t need to be an experienced artist to give it a go – all you need is a pencil and paper!
I started off my day with a delicious cup of coffee and some avocado toast, so I thought I’d start by drawing those. It’s amazing how many little details you can capture in a simple sketch. From the delicate curls of steam rising from my coffee mug, to the slices of avocado on my toast – I found myself getting lost in the details!
Next, I drew my lunch – a bowl of vegetable soup. I had so much fun adding details like the different colors of vegetables, the texture of the soup and the steam rising up from the bowl. It’s amazing how quickly these little drawings can come together.
Finally, for dinner, I had some salmon with roasted vegetables. I was surprised at how quickly I could capture the shape of the salmon fillet, and then add some detail to make it look even more realistic. As I added more layers of color to my veggies, they almost looked alive! 😉
Drawing digital art of what you eat can be a fun and creative way to get your creative juices flowing. Give this art prompt a try – you may be surprised at what you come up with!
2) Get Inspired By Your Favorite Song
Music is another fun drawing prompt to help you flex your creative muscles.
It can be a great source of inspiration and what better way to get inspired than by listening to your favorite song?
Drawing prompts based on the emotions you experience while listening to music can be a great way to challenge yourself and bring out the best in your work.
To get started, just sit down with your favorite song playing and let the inspiration flow! Here are some art prompt ideas based on music that you might want to try out:
- Create a portrait of your favorite singer or musician.
- Draw a scene that reflects the atmosphere and tone of the music.
- Illustrate the lyrics of the song.
- Create an abstract pattern that’s inspired by the beat and rhythm of the music.
- Draw a creature that embodies the message of the song.
- Paint a landscape that reflects the mood of the music.
- Use mixed media to represent different elements of the song.
- Use bright colors to bring out the energy of the music.
- Design a logo inspired by the song’s title or message.
- Create an object that represents a particular line or phrase in the song.
Have fun creating, and let your creativity run wild! 😉
3) Create Something Based On a Dream You Had
Do you ever have an amazing dream that you just can’t help but want to express creatively? If so, you should definitely consider using it as inspiration for an art project!
Take the colors, shapes, characters, and emotions of your dream and use them to create something unique.
Remember, you don’t need to be an artist or a professional to create something meaningful – just let your imagination run free and see what this art prompt unleashes!
Prompts examples:
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Prompt #1
Prompt
olpntng style, still life of fruit in a glass container on a table, reflections on the table, vibrant golds, matte painting movie poster, golden ratio, trending on cgsociety, intricate, epic, trending on artstation, by artgerm, h. r. giger and beksinski, highly detailed, vibrant, production cinematic character render, ultra high quality model, black background with shadows
, oil painting, heavy strokes, paint dripping
Negative prompt
blurry, abstract, disfigured, deformed, cartoon, animated, toy, figure, framed, 3d, badly drawn hands, nude, cartoon, 3d, disfigured, bad art, deformed, poorly drawn, extra limbs, close up, b&w, weird colors, blurry, watermark, blur haze, blur haze
Parameters
Model: Stable Diffusion 1.5, Guidance Scale: 10, Seed: 592257790, Sampler: k_euler_ancestral
Prompt #2
Prompt
Dutch masters chemistry still life. Include volumetric and erlenmeyer flask with silver platter oil paint
Negative prompt
Parameters
Model: Stable Diffusion 1.5, Guidance Scale: 7, Seed: 317753882, Sampler: k_euler
Prompt #3
Prompt
On the oak table is a silver dish with fruit, grapes, yellow apples, oranges, white and black grapes, behind the dish is a jug of wine and a vase of flowers., centered, symmetry, painted, intricate, volumetric lighting, beautiful, rich deep colors masterpiece, sharp focus, ultra detailed, in the style of dan mumford and marc simonetti, astrophotography
Negative prompt
ugly, tiling, poorly drawn hands, poorly drawn feet, poorly drawn face, out of frame, extra limbs, disfigured, deformed, body out of frame, blurry, bad anatomy, blurred, watermark, grainy, signature, cut off, draft
Parameters
Model: Stable Diffusion 1.5, Guidance Scale: 10, Seed: 569402413, Sampler: k_euler_ancestral
Prompt #4
Prompt
strybk, Grapes, fruits and wine still life, by Catherine Abel, Caspar David Friedrich, Leonardo da Vinci, Artgerm, Intricate, Elegant, Digital Illustration, Scenic, Hyper-Realistic, Hyper-Detailed, 16k, Sharp Focus, Artstation, beautiful, ultra detailed, crisp quality, light reflections, kids story book style, muted colors, watercolor style
Negative prompt
out of frame, human, Dripping paint, 2 heads, 2 faces, cropped image, out of frame, deformed hands, twisted fingers, double image, malformed hands, multiple heads, extra limb, ugly, poorly drawn hands, missing limb, disfigured, cut off, ugly, grain, low res, deformed, blurry, bad anatomy, disfigured, poorly drawn face, floating limbs, disconnected limbs, disgusting, poorly drawn, mangled, extra fingers, duplicate artifacts, missing arms, mutated hands, mutilated hands, cloned face, malformed, text, logo, wordmark, writing, heading, signature
Parameters
Model: Stable Diffusion 1.5, Guidance Scale: 7, Seed: 28738239, Sampler: k_euler_ancestral
Prompt #5
Prompt
Create a Minimalism stylized artwork of a bouquet of fruits on a table covered with linen, haze, ultra-detailed, film photography, light leaks, Larry Bud Melman, trending on artstation, sharp focus, studio photo, intricate details, highly detailed, by greg rutkowski
Negative prompt
Woman, people, Text, font, print
Parameters
Model: Stable Diffusion 1.5, Guidance Scale: 7, Seed: 926707609, Sampler: k_euler_ancestral
Prompt #6
Prompt
Assorted fruits in the basket, perfect composition, beautiful detailed intricate insanely detailed octane render trending on artstation, 8 k artistic photography, photorealistic concept art, soft natural volumetric cinematic perfect light, chiaroscuro, award – winning photograph, masterpiece, oil on canvas, raphael, caravaggio, greg rutkowski, beeple, beksinski, giger
Negative prompt
Parameters
Model: Stable Diffusion 1.5, Guidance Scale: 7, Seed: 799823123, Sampler: k_euler_ancestral
Prompt #7
Prompt
On the oak table is a silver dish with fruit, grapes, yellow apples, oranges, white and black grapes, behind the dish is a jug of wine and a vase of flowers., unreal engine, greg rutkowski, loish, rhads, beeple, makoto shinkai and lois van baarle, ilya kuvshinov, rossdraws, tom bagshaw, alphonse mucha, global illumination, detailed and intricate environment
Negative prompt
Dripping paint, 2 heads, 2 faces, cropped image, out of frame, deformed hands, twisted fingers, double image, malformed hands, multiple heads, extra limb, ugly, poorly drawn hands, missing limb, disfigured, cut off, ugly, grain, low res, deformed, blurry, bad anatomy, disfigured, poorly drawn face, mutation, mutated, floating limbs, disconnected limbs, disgusting, poorly drawn, mutilated, mangled, extra fingers, duplicate artifacts, missing arms, mutated hands, mutilated hands, cloned face, malformed Brown, beige
Parameters
Model: Stable Diffusion 1.5, Guidance Scale: 10, Seed: 673181903, Sampler: k_euler_ancestral
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