Drawing Wheel: Spin Something to Draw

Drawing wheel with 20 things to draw, from a dragon to a treehouse. Spin when you don’t know what to draw, for art class, sketchbooks or a draw-off.

Art class
Daily sketches
Draw-offs

On this wheel

A dragon
A treehouse
A robot
Your dream pet
A castle
Underwater city
A cat in a hat
A rocket ship
A friendly monster
A food with a face
A magic potion
Your favourite place

Why use a drawing wheel

Stuck on what to draw? Twenty ideas are already on the wheel, each one easy to start and fun to make your own. Spin once for today’s sketch, or spin twice and draw both things together.

Give the class one thing to draw
Teachers can project the wheel and spin a subject for a warm-up sketch at the start of art class.
Fill a sketchbook one spin at a time
Artists can spin once a day and keep a sketchbook habit going without a blank page.
Hold a drawing contest with friends
Spin one idea, set a five-minute timer, and everyone draws it their own way.

This wheel wears the Spin-Off Press theme: a risograph print in pink, blue and yellow ink, with a halftone rim and a registration-mark hub. Your own copy keeps it, or pick another wheel theme.

How to use the drawing wheel

Click the wheel to spin it.
Wait for it to slow down and stop on a random entry. The winner pops up on screen.
Click “Hide & Respin” to take the winner out and spin again, so nothing is picked twice.
Click “Create your own drawing idea picker” to save your own copy, change the entries, and share or embed it.

All 20 entries on the drawing wheel

A dragon
A treehouse
A robot
Your dream pet
A castle
Underwater city
A cat in a hat
A rocket ship
A friendly monster
A food with a face
A magic potion
Your favourite place
A unicorn
A snowman
A superhero
A garden
A self-portrait
An alien
A pirate ship
A cozy room

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I make drawing prompts harder?

Spin twice and draw both ideas in one picture, a robot in a garden or a dragon in a cozy room. Or add a rule, such as only three colours.

Is the wheel really random?

Yes. Every entry has a slice of the same size, and where the wheel stops is picked with your browser’s cryptographically secure random number generator (crypto.getRandomValues), so nobody can predict or rig the result.

Can I change the entries on this wheel?

Yes. Click “Create your own drawing idea picker” to save your own copy. You can then add, remove or rename entries, change the theme and spin settings, and share or embed your wheel.