The Unofficial Guide to Creative Prompts | Challenges | Inspiration

"When you begin a picture, you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over several times. In each destroying of a beautiful discovery the artist does not really suppress it, but rather transforms it, condenses it, makes it more substantial."
~ Pablo Picasso

enormous|vivid graffiti street art, Amsterdam

• EasyStreet Prompts a place to get unstuck
• Litemind Tackle Any Issue With a List of 100
• Hanna devised 49 Creative Things You Can Do Today
• CRINID 12 Icebreakers to Kick-Start Your Brainstorm
• Rhomany's Realm art journaling links
• Atypical writing prompts at Writing Forward
• 10,000 Questions a question a day for journaling
• Creative Every Day hosts a flexible challenge to "create" every day (i participate)
• A Creative Mint for color palettes and gorgeous photography
• 2 Things Challenge open interpretation of weekly pair of subjects
• Six Revisions design inspiration
• WikiHOW How to Exercise an Open Mind
• Illustration Friday weekly illustration challenge
• Soul Journaling with Sarah Whitmire
• The Generator Blog tools for generating everything from airline tickets to eye charts
• Virtual Sketch Date artists draw from the same reference image for a week
• The Hand Drawn Map Association is a burst of inspiration, also the funky maps at subk.net
• Roadside Peek retro road signs on Route 66 and beyond
• Listography, random life lists
• Tons of prompts to explore at WritingFix
• Paul Nordquist's Unruly Beast of a Song Blog song writing prompts
• Graphic ExchanGE design excellence
• Art E-Zine overflowing artistic inspiration Art E-Links
• Three creative podcasts: The Creative Mom Podcast, CraftSanity, CraftyPod
• WitFit writing prompts at Fictionista
• this joy+ride beautiful bursts of inspiration [no longer updated]
• Creative Therapy weekly creative catalysts [no longer updated]
• Michelle Ward's GPP Street Team Crusades [no longer updated]

just a few more...

• The Official Guide to Daisy Yellow Creative Prompts
• November is NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month for writers), AEDM (Art Every Day Month for creatives, coordinated by Creative Every Day) and NaNoJouMo (National NonStop Journaling Month for art journalists, coordinated by D'Blogala).

This list is updated regularly, bit I don't always catch bad links so please let me know if you find one!

Comments

[Sara]

WOW...

I will never utter the word "bored" again! Thanks so much for this. :)

[Leslie]

These are awesome. Thank you!!!

[Kim]

you are always so generous. Thank you!

[Michelle Gregory]

thanks for sharing. i love the Picasso quote. very relevant for the novel i'm writing. i'll also be using the list of 100 to help generate ideas.

[Duana]

Thank you so much for being so willing to give of your time and effort to compile these lists....and then share them!! I always feel so inspired whenever I visit your site..:-D

[iHanna]

Awesome list to be in, thanks for the mention! :-) I will save this list for a rainy day!

[Ellen]

Hanna's list alone would be several weeks of fun inspiration. Thanks for sharing these!

[teddi]

tammy, you introduced me to so many new things here, & in your daily sharing. thank you so much artistic one! you should be so proud of what you create.