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November drawing challenge 2026

Here's a drawing prompt for every day of November 2026, 30 in all, each with an art challenge. They're the Drawing Dice prompts of the day, so everyone doing the challenge draws the same one on the same day. It starts on Sunday, November 1, and all 30 prompts are here already so you can plan ahead.

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  1. A happy bowl of ramen Challenge: Draw it twice, once realistic and once cartoony.
  2. A seahorse stargazing on a pirate ship. Challenge: Finish it in 10 minutes.
  3. A zero-gravity sports arena mid-game Challenge: Draw it in one continuous line, without lifting your pen.
  4. A gingerbread man surfing a huge wave in a candy forest. Challenge: Add a pattern to every surface.
  5. A rare exotic flower in bloom Challenge: Draw it upside down, then flip the page.
  6. A hungry pelican sewing a costume in a pumpkin patch. Challenge: Use warm colors only.
  7. A hollowed-out tree used as a home Challenge: Use only a ballpoint pen.
  8. A skateboarder talking to an alien in a flower shop. Challenge: Draw it in a 2-inch (5 cm) square.
  9. A shoe that's also a car Challenge: Use only a ballpoint pen.
  10. A brown bear napping in a hammock in the jungle. Challenge: Use warm colors only.
  11. A cactus in a pot Challenge: Make it look like a children's book illustration.
  12. A goblin merchant yawning in a barbershop. Challenge: Use cool colors only.
  13. A street scene during a festival in South America Challenge: Fill the whole page, edge to edge.
  14. A hermit crab napping in a hammock in an old diner. Challenge: Draw it three times on one page, at three different sizes.
  15. A crowded subway train with hanging handles Challenge: Exaggerate the proportions.
  16. A baker piloting a spaceship on a beach at sunset. Challenge: Draw the shadows first.
  17. A kingdom ruled by sentient animals Challenge: Borrow the composition of a famous painting.
  18. A sleepy student reading a spell book at a drive-in movie theater. Challenge: Draw it with your non-dominant hand.
  19. A luxury watch face designed around a constellation theme Challenge: Fill the whole page, edge to edge.
  20. A cat in a space helmet looking through a telescope at a Halloween party. Challenge: Use only shapes: circles, squares and triangles.
  21. A window reflecting an alternate universe Challenge: Use a pen, with no pencil and no erasing.
  22. A baker walking on a tightrope in a castle tower. Challenge: Draw the shadows first.
  23. A runway show featuring futuristic metallic fashion Challenge: Draw a frame around it that's part of the story.
  24. A hermit crab napping in a hammock at a wedding. Challenge: Borrow the composition of a famous painting.
  25. A wolf made of northern lights Challenge: Make your least favorite color the main color.
  26. A ballet dancer reading a spell book in a cave full of bats. Challenge: Draw it using only dots.
  27. A cracked desert floor with deep fissures Challenge: Design it as a sticker.
  28. A skateboarder baking a cake inside a snow globe. Challenge: Make your least favorite color the main color.
  29. A throne made of bones in a dark cavern Challenge: Exaggerate the proportions.
  30. A sleepwalker running late for work in a foggy forest. Challenge: Use no more than 20 lines.

How to keep going

Pick a time

Tie it to something you already do, like breakfast or the bus home, so you don't have to decide every day.

Keep it small

10 to 30 minutes and one sketchbook page is plenty. The timer on each prompt helps you stop.

Don't start over

If a drawing goes wrong, keep going and fix it on the page. Finishing teaches more than erasing.

Look back

At the end of the month, put all your drawings side by side. That's the best part.

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