30 Ridiculous Drawing Prompts for November

The quick answer: below are 30 drawing prompts, one for each day of November, grouped into four weekly themes plus a two-day encore. Open the editor, pick today's prompt (or any prompt, nobody is checking), draw it in a few minutes, and send it to someone who will be appropriately concerned. No account needed.

These are not the Daily Dick. The Daily Dick is DrawDick's official prompt of the day: one prompt for everyone, numbered, new at midnight UTC, with yesterday's winners. Do that one first. These 30 are the bonus round, for the days one drawing is not enough, or for a group chat that needs a theme.

Week 1: The clocks fell back (November 1 to 7)

It is dark at 4:30, the sweaters are out, and everyone is pretending this is cozy.

1. Draw a dick that just found out it gets dark at 4:30 now. In the US, daylight saving ends on November 1. Give it a window, a sunset, and the face of someone who has been personally betrayed by a clock.
2. Draw a dick wearing a sweater someone knitted it. One sleeve longer than the other. It will wear it at every family visit until one of them moves away.
3. Draw a dick that has been "about to start going to the gym" since September. The membership card is still in its wrapper. Start it at the gym.
4. Draw a dick hibernating. Blanket, snacks, a sign on the door that says DO NOT DISTURB UNTIL MARCH.
5. Draw a dick losing a fight with a fitted sheet. The sheet is winning. The sheet has always been winning.
6. Draw a dick that turned the heat up without asking. It knows it will be caught. It did it anyway. Give it shifty eyes.
7. Draw a dick raking leaves on a windy day. One neat pile, one rake, and a gust of wind arriving from the left with bad intentions.

Week 2: Minor inconveniences (November 8 to 14)

Nothing terrible happens this week. Everything is just slightly worse than it should be.

8. Draw a dick that stepped in something wet. In socks. The face is the whole drawing. Nobody recovers from this quickly.
9. Draw a dick whose phone is on 1%. No charger in sight, a long way from home, and one very important message still to send. Add the sweat.
10. Draw a dick that said "you too" when the waiter said "enjoy your meal." It will think about this at 3 a.m. for years. Seat it at the restaurant.
11. Draw a dick stuck behind the slowest walker on the sidewalk. Every gap closes just as it steps toward it.
12. Draw a dick that forgot someone's name, and it's far too late to ask. It has been calling them "buddy" for six months.
13. Draw a dick holding a door for someone who is still very far away. Now they both have to jog a little. Nobody wanted this.
14. Draw a dick that just pushed a door clearly marked PULL. Bonus points for an audience.

Week 3: Hobbies nobody asked about (November 15 to 21)

Everyone has one. Some people have four, and a group chat for each.

15. Draw a dick explaining its sourdough starter to someone who did not ask. The starter has a name. The listener's eyes have left the room.
16. Draw a dick that's very serious about birdwatching. Binoculars, a notebook, a camouflage hat, and a bird sitting directly behind it. Send it into the woods.
17. Draw a dick at its first pottery class. The wheel is spinning. The clay is spinning. Things are going very badly.
18. Draw a dick with a brand-new metal detector. After six hours it has found one bottle cap and it is thrilled. Take it to the beach.
19. Draw a dick doing a 1,000-piece jigsaw with one piece missing. It has checked under the couch. It has checked the dog.
20. Draw a dick that took up the bagpipes. Draw the neighbors too. The neighbors have notes.
21. Draw a dick that names all of its houseplants. There are 40 of them now, and it is losing the room. Put it in the greenhouse.

Week 4: The big family dinner (November 22 to 28)

The week of Thanksgiving in the US, and of very long tables everywhere.

22. Draw a dick still sitting at the kids' table, aged 40. Tiny chair, paper hat, crayons, a mortgage.
23. Draw a dick that brought a store-bought pie and is passing it off as homemade. The price sticker is still on it.
24. Draw a dick that has been told to "just watch the gravy." Something has already gone wrong with the gravy. Hand it the chef's hat.
25. Draw a dick being asked "so, are you seeing anyone?" for the fourth time today. By four different relatives. Over one plate of potatoes.
26. Draw a dick in a food coma. Top button undone, eyes half shut, a plate that has been licked. It is not moving until December.
27. Draw a dick camping outside a store for a TV it does not need. Sleeping bag, thermos, a handwritten sign: I WAS HERE FIRST.
28. Draw a dick eating its fifth leftover sandwich. It is slowly starting to look like one.

The encore (November 29 and 30)

29. Draw a dick untangling last year's holiday lights. It put them away "neatly." It did not. One bulb is out, and it is taking the whole string down with it.
30. Draw a dick looking back on November with enormous pride. It drew 30 dicks this month. Nobody asked it to. It would do it again.

How to take part

1. Open the editor

   Go to DrawDick. Drawing is free and needs no account. If you would rather not start from a blank page, the cartoon starter builds a cartoon from sliders and hands it to the editor, ready to dress up.

2. Pick a prompt

   Today's date, your favorite, or a random number from 1 to 30. The links beside some prompts open the editor with a blank cartoon already on the page, on a matching scene or with a sticker, so all that is left is the joke.

3. Draw it

   A few minutes is plenty. A face, one prop and a setting will carry almost any prompt here, and the editor has 36 scenes to draw on and a sticker for nearly every accessory.

4. Share it, or submit it

   Press Export to download it or make a share card, and send it wherever it will cause the most confusion. To have it published on DrawDick and rated, sign in and submit it for review.

Turn it into a group thing

• One prompt, everyone. Pick a prompt each morning in the group chat, give everyone until lunch, then vote.
• The calendar. Split the 30 days between friends and post your days in order. By the end of the month you have a shared, deeply unnecessary art project.
• The swap. Everyone draws a prompt from the week and the group guesses which one it was. A drawing that cannot be guessed loses.

For one-off dares, the eight challenges to send your friends each come as a link that opens the editor with the challenge already set.

Frequently asked questions

Do I have to do them in order?

No. The weekly themes are there to give the month a shape, not to grade you. Start on the 17th, skip the bagpipes, do three on a Sunday. All fine.

Do I need an account?

Not to draw, download or share. You only need an account to submit a drawing for review, so it can be published on its own page and rated by other people.

Is there a gallery of everyone's November drawings?

No. These prompts are for you and your friends. The site's shared prompt is the Daily Dick, which shows yesterday's winners every day.

Can I use these prompts somewhere else?

Yes. Draw them on paper, on a napkin, on a steamed-up window. Just keep them on things you own, and off anything that belongs to someone else.