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

• this joy+ride beautiful bursts of inspiration  
• Michelle Ward's GPP Street Team Crusades
• 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
• Inspire Me Thursday creativity prompts
• 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 Therapy weekly creative catalysts
• Creative Every Day hosts a flexible challenge to "create" every day (i participate)
• A Creative Mint for color palettes and gorgeous photography
• mezzacotta half-baked website ideas
• 2 Things Challenge open interpretation of weekly pair of subjects
• Wordie lists of words for word lovers
• Six Revisions design inspiration
• WikiHOW How to Exercise an Open Mind
• Illustration Friday weekly illustration challenge
• Colorfuldayz Creativity Prompt Links
• 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
• Pencillines, use the sketched composition targeted to scrapbookers to spark your pages
• The Pattern Foundry decorative patterns
• Roadside Peek retro road signs on Route 66 and beyond
• Saturday Challenges posted weekly at My Peacetree
• Listography, random life lists
• Tons of prompts to explore at WritingFix
• Paul Nordquist's Unruly Beast of a Song Blog song writing prompts
• Strange maps oddities
• Graphic ExchanGE latest inspiration and design excellence
• Art E-Zine overflowing artistic inspiration Art E-Links
• Hanna of Create & Live Happy has created massive Link Love (really, it's impressive)
• Austin Kleon's writing/design site + Flickr set of Mind Maps
• Three creative podcasts: The Creative Mom Podcast, CraftSanity, CraftyPod
• WitFit writing prompts at Fictionista

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 dont' 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. :)