Angie Carel

Explore 31 Shapes in Nature drawing prompts inspired by patterns, formations, movement, and surprising geometry across the natural world.

Bring your sketchbook into full bloom with this month’s “Flower Power” Drawing Prompts!

Welcome to Machines in Motion, where creativity quite literally gets moving. This month, we invite you into a world of gears, levers, wheels, and wild inventions. You’ll explore everything from the satisfying rhythm of a conveyor belt to the intricate paths of a marble run, from the steady power of a steam engine to the playful chaos of a Rube Goldberg machine. Each prompt is designed to help you see motion as art—how parts connect, how systems flow, and how even the simplest mechanism can