Hmmm… Here’s a possibility. Sit down with a piece of paper and write out things you could draw. A potted plant, a new character, whatever.

First number the page 1-35. Then write down something behind each number. There you go, you can throw out four or five and have a month’s worth of “assignments.” Either do them in order or cut up the paper, put the slips in a jar and pull one out everyday.

I do this with writing prompts and I don’t see why it wouldn’t work with drawing. One thing to remember, sometimes you might pull something like, “favorite coffee mug,” and think, I don’t want to do that, I want to draw _(blank) instead. Draw what you want. The idea is just to get you to draw.

It really is wonderful when you are able to participate in your art every day. It gives me a sense of fitting into the world in a way I want to.

Any goal that you set yourself to do every day requires a period of ramping up to. You don’t go from once a week to once a day in one swell foop. Set yourself some intermediate goals: twice a week for a couple of weeks, three times a week for a couple more, etc, like that until you are comfortably at your goal (then set the next goal!).

SallKitt’s idea is really good, too, create a list of things to draw and treat it like a random assignment. That saves you from the angst of “I don’t know what I want to draw”—in this exercise, it really doesn’t matter what you draw, just that you draw.