Drawing Prompts for High School

Drawing prompts are a great activity to incorporate into your high school drawing classes as part of your start of class routine. Drawing prompts for high school act as warm ups and can allow students to practice and refine their skills while flexing their creativity muscle. Incorporate drawing prompts today in your classroom!

Drawing Prompts for High School

These drawing prompts for high school use everyday items and require very little set up.

Start the school year off by making goals related to student’s drawing and what they hope to accomplish in their drawing this year! The goal setting sheets that are included are a great way to do this! 

Drawing Prompts for high school includes over 100 drawing prompts. They can be used for both virtual and in person learning. The drawing prompts list can be used for homework assignments. These drawing ideas for high school students will establish a great routine within your classroom.  There are also pages that focus on drawing practice using the elements of design. Over 30 pages in total!

Benefits of Drawing Prompts

• Allows students to create a habit of drawing daily or weekly

• Lets students develop their creativity and innovation through interpreting prompts and adding their own original ideas

• A great time filler or ongoing sketchbook project

• Can be done in-person or online

• Can be used with different art materials

Included in this product: 

• Drawing goals worksheet

• What is a sketch book handout

• How to use your sketchbook more handout

• 50 Drawing prompts for at home

• 60 Drawing prompts in the classroom

• Drawing prompt check lists

• Shading practice pages

• Drawing practice pages using the elements of design - 30 pages+ total!

Handouts are in black and white so you can print, photocopy and use year after year!

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5 Tips for Still Life Painting - Paint a Better Still Life!

5 Tips for how to paint a better still life will help improve your still life painting! Painting a still life as a beginner painter can be difficult.

Especially when you are trying to make the painting realistic! I have written a collection of tips to help make this process easier!

There is also an assortment of videos on painting still lives from lemons to eggs and everything in between. You can check out those painting lessons on my acrylic painting for beginners YouTube channel

How to Paint a Lemon- watch this video to learn more: click here to watch!

Here Are Some Tips to Paint a Better Still Life:

1. It helps to have your still life set up and arranged in front of you to paint, alternatively you can paint from a colour photograph -however having a real still life like a bowl of fruit or a vase of flowers right there will allow you to see all the tiny details.

2. Map out your painting in a coloured stick of chalk. A still life is all about painting/drawing what you see. Draw your still life in a stick of chalk. If you make a mistake it will easily rub off -saving you paint and time! Using something like a pencil to draw on the canvas might still show through layers of paint and can be hard to erase.

3. Exaggerate the highlights and shadows! Shadows and highlights on an object is what makes it look three-dimensional in a painting. You have the creative freedom to express what you see and convince someone that what you are painting is life-like. So darken the shadows and brighten the highlights to make them pop and stand out! A way of doing this is shining a light from a lamp on your still life which will make it more obvious where the highlights and shadows are making it easier to paint!

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4. Paint in the direction of your object. This sounds obvious but a lot of beginner painters make the mistake of painting all objects with long flat straight brushstrokes. This ends up making round objects like lemons, apples and vases look flat and lack having a form. I have created a great short YouTube video to help with this- click here!

5. Remember to paint in layers and take your time! You don’t need to finish your painting in one sitting, taking your time allows you to add more details which helps make the painting more realistic. If you don’t like something you can paint over it -this is why I love acrylic painting!

Bonus tip:

If you are painting a still life over a day take a photo of it to ensure you are capturing the same lighting and that objects haven’t moved!

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