In 2022, I found myself bored and asked my friend if her then-7 year old would tell me what to draw. What began as a still-pandemic-era time-filler evolved into Kid Prompts: an illustration series, a YouTube show, and some day (I hope!) a book and an interactive, traveling gallery exhibition!
If your kid has a Kid Prompt they would like to share with me, please contact me!
Natalie, almost 9: “A very stretchy person surrounded by fruit that has swirls on it”Simon, 4: “A robot house. Not a house for robots. It’s a house that folds up into a robot.”Anders, 8: “A picture of a picture inside the picture.”Benjamin, 11: “A dog with a very long tongue chasing a squirrel with a very big tail in the middle of a corn field.”Jaya, 8: “A microscopic gymnastics in a space ship looking at the enormous earth.”Mae, 11: “A brownie drinking ice tea in an English castle.”Alex, almost 5: “A pink, purple, gold, and silver mermaid eating cake at a mermaid restaurant.”Harry, 6: “A half alien half bull half pig half elephant half tiger in a space ship on Jupiter”Walter, 10: “A flute playing a violin that’s playing a trumpet in an outer space orchestra.”Harry, 6: “A manta ray peeking out of a cave with a crown and a necklace with a star on the necklace and the cave is surrounded by other cow nose rays holding spears coiled up in its wings.”Jack, 2: “Lynne making a dragon.”Gretchen, Age 7: “Quinn the dolphin jumping out of the water, with her friend Maya also a dolphin.”Jamie, almost-3: “A dinosaur playing outside a castle.”Anders, 8: “A scary, demon-like two-headed dragon breathing fire from one head and lightening from the other.”Astra, 2: “A guitar that can see.”Avi, age 6: “A rainbow car spinning fast in the mud that looks like a helicopter.”Levi, age 8: “A tan llama eating grass in the forest, with a sneaky fox, sneaky coyotes and wolves during the day.”Aashi, age 6: “There is a unicorn and an elephant at a watering hole. The unicorn is drinking water. Very thirsty. The elephant is taking water in its snout and shooting it at Aashima who is collecting water from the watering hole with a bucket and water bottle. The unicorn has wings so she flew to a forest where there was a lake with ducks. Unicorn flew away. Elephant is shooting at Aashi in her face and she has to try to get water before it goes down.”Friday, age 8: “Three Christmas gnomes playing in the snow in the yard of their house. One is making a snow angel and the other two are in a snow ball fight.”Rafi, age 11-months: “Duck!”Ava, age 8: “Three fashion models who are best friends backstage hugging”Marlowe, age 6: “A big, mean monster stomping around San Francisco.”Fiona, age 7: “A cheetah eating a plate of chicken nuggets at a restaurant.”Beau, age 6: “Be a snake.”Thea, age 10: “A concert on a yacht that’s being over-run by walking sharks and there is a bunch of seagulls in the air.”Gavin, age 8: “Two monkeys in a tree. Drinking banana smoothies and I (Gavin) am doing backflips in the forest with them.”Roman, age 10: “A character from Minecraft chopping down a tree.”Roslyn, age 8: “A kitty at a tea shop with a dog wearing a t-shirt that says ‘this is my tea shop.’ Also, there’s no people in the world, only animals. And then raccoons are around them dancing in the tea shop background.”Jake, age 6: “A horse galloping on a car surrounded by people taking photos.”Gunnar, age 12: “Queen Victoria at a tea party and Queen Elizabeth the First comes down as a ghost and steals their tea.”Ronan, age 9: “I want to see two monkeys with a catapult and I want some big giant bananas sitting in the part where the rocks go and I want the setting to be in a field but I want me standing in the background putting my hands on my hips and going, “what’s going on here?!” and the bananas are screaming.”Bennett, age 6: “A country called Zib Zob and in Zib Zob there’s a flying dragon and clay sculptures what can move.”
