What to draw: ideas and tag walls

Staring at an empty mannequin with no idea what to put on it happens to everyone. Here is a pile of prompts that work well on a face-only canvas, plus a tour of hashtag walls — the place where drawings with the same theme find each other.

Easy starters

Draw yourself, right now, hair included. Draw yourself on a Monday morning. Draw your mood as a face. Draw yourself when the food arrives. Draw the face you make reading group-chat drama.

Draw your pet as a person. Draw your favorite fictional character from memory — no looking at references, that is the fun. Draw your favorite musician. Draw the villain of your week.

Recreate an emoji by hand: 😂, 😴 or 🤔 drawn with a wobbly brush are instant classics. Draw a face using only three strokes. Draw a face without lifting your finger. Draw with your eyes closed and post whatever happens.

For groups and rooms

In a room with friends, prompts get better: everyone draws the same person (the birthday star, the departing colleague, the boss), or everyone draws the person whose name comes after theirs in the chat. Comparing twenty versions of one face is the whole show.

Hashtag walls: where themes live

Add up to three hashtags to a drawing on the main wall — #cat, #monday, #selfportrait, anything — and it appears on that tag's own wall too. Tag walls are how topics form here: one person tags #zombie, someone else sees it and answers, and suddenly there is a wall of zombies.

Tap any tag chip on a drawing to jump to its wall, then keep surfing from tag to tag. Popular tags surface in the discover sheet, so a good tag on a good drawing can pull a crowd. If a tag does not exist yet, tagging your drawing is what brings its wall to life — you can start a theme as easily as joining one.

One honest reminder

This is a shared, all-ages wall. Draw freely, keep it friendly, and skip anything you would not want on a classroom wall — the full rules live in the Terms of Use. Reported drawings get hidden, and drawing nicely is more fun anyway.