A Year-ish of Monthly Prompts
- Molly Newport
- Dec 28, 2025
- 2 min read
As much as I love adding to my daily drawing journal, let’s be honest - most of those pages are made at speed. I blink and miss the deadline. They’re quick drawings, fast decisions and a bit of 'yeah that’ll do.'
I decided to give myself some prompts that were completely separate from my daily work. Slower. More thoughtful. Less 'I have five minutes and one functioning brain cell.'
Picking words from a hat has always been a fun way to randomly generate ideas. Unfortunately, I only have one hat, but I do have three large yogurt pots (they have been washed). These were labeled: ‘creature’, ‘activity’, and ‘attire’. Extremely high tech stuff.
I opened up these idea pots to my newsletter group and invited them to add their own inspiration via a link - might as well share the love. Each month, I blindly pick one entry from each pot and reveal the results in the newsletter. What could go wrong..?
I send my newsletter out on the last Sunday of the month, which gives me a longer deadline and allows me to put more time and detail into each piece of work. I love the idea of this expanding into other creative areas too - songs, poems, videos… honestly, anything goes. It doesn’t have to be drawing, that's just my comfort zone.
I also gently remind myself that I am a human, and sometimes life gets in the way of making a perfect drawing. Which is why this year there are 11 drawings instead of 12 for the year. I absolutely love this part when I can gather up all of these drawings and see the collection I've made and how the skills can compound over the year.
So if you fancy squeezing a little bit of creativity into your month, add your name to the list here and I'll meet you in your inbox on the last Sunday of the month.
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