help me with prompts please!

[badbastion]

Long story short, my old tablet+computer+graphics program are no longer useable, so i'm on a WHOLE NEW SYSTEM with a newer tablet that i'm not familiar with, and a graphics program i'm even less familiar with.

Sooooo, I need to practice hardcore to get good enough to draw things I can actually share with people.

Please give me some prompts! I promise that I will at least try to do each one of them. Nothing too complicated, please, I'm just trying to get used to the new tablet & program.

Alsoooo, does anyone know of any cheap or free graphics programs? Now all I have is photoshop CS4, and I don't love it. I really don't like GIMP, and I can't get Paint Tool Sai (my program of choice) to work on my laptop.

Thanks a bunch!

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[dancing-adrift.livejournal.com]

Hi! I'd love to help with prompts. Are you looking for anything specific, like people, or places, landscapes, animals...? And how specific within those categories? Lol. Like, do you want "man fishing from a dock" or "Dean Winchester pretending to fish on a dock when really he's hunting the Loch Ness monster"? Because I can go either way ;)

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Nothing too specific, places, people, things, situations, though something like "Dean Winchester fishing from a dock" or "man fishing from a dock" would be better than the extra added layer of "really hunting the Loch Ness monster," if that makes sense : )

[dancing-adrift.livejournal.com]

Lol, well you're welcome to disregard anything, and the whole point is to just give you direction/inspiration, right? Hmm. *ponders*

[dancing-adrift.livejournal.com]

So. Random prompts. (Feel free to tell me "thanks but no thanks" if you think they suck, lol. Otherwise I could probably go on...For a very long time.)

Man fishing from a dock. (Can be Dean Winchester, if you prefer, lol)
The woman in red.
The Winchesters at the beach.
Spaghetti dinner.
Dogs playing at the park.
A maple tree in its fall colors.
A dragon.
A famous landmark you've visited or want to visit.
Umbrella and rain boots.
A reflection (mirror, water, other shiny surface).
A pig. (Or a pug, per my phone's suggestion XP)
Baby on the wide open road.
Bouquet of flowers.
Your favorite fictional character.

(I have no personal attachment to any of these -except for maybe the beach!Winchesters and Baby ;) - but I hope they are maybe helpful to you despite their utter randomness)

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I will see what I can make of these : )