Style-Discovery Prompt List

Ever feel like your art style is playing hide and seek with you? One day it’s soft and dreamy, the next it’s bold and loud, and you’re left wondering what your actual style even is. Same! 🙃 That’s why I put together some tips (and real talk) to help you lean into the mess and start discovering your artistic voice - without the pressure.

Prompt 1: One Subject, Five Styles

Pick a simple subject, like a cat, plant, coffee cup, or moon, and draw it in five completely different styles.

Try: minimal, messy, detailed, abstract, cartoonish.

Prompt 2: Draw With “Wrong” Tools

Use a medium or tool you rarely touch. Crayon? Marker? Digital brush you hate? Go full chaos. No pressure, just explore.

Prompt 3: Redraw Something Old

Find an old piece of your own art. Redraw it using your current preferences: colours, shapes, mood. Notice what changed?

Prompt 4: The Mood Board Mashup

Grab 5 pieces of your own art that feel like you. What do they have in common? Now make something new that blends the vibes of all 5.

Prompt 5: 10-Minute Blind Style Sesh

Set a timer for 10 minutes and speed-draw whatever comes to mind in the style of your favourite childhood cartoon, fave current artist, or a made-up aesthetic. Fast + messy = gold.

Prompt 6: Pick a Palette, Let It Lead

Choose a colour palette before you start drawing, something you wouldn’t usually use, and let it guide the whole piece. Don’t change your mind halfway.

Prompt 7: Style Swap Collab

Ask a friend (or use a reference image) and recreate their piece in your style, or your piece in their style. Instant clarity on your artistic voice.

Prompt 8: Emotion As Aesthetic

Pick a feeling, like “nostalgic,” “chaotic good,” or “quiet confidence”, and make a piece that visually feels like that.

Hopefully a few of these tips give you just the kickstart you need to help discover your artistic voice, whatever shape it takes. You don’t have to have it all figured out. Just keep making things, stay curious, and give yourself space to grow. 🌱