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Posts showing a source for their inspiration or art direction on the art itself, usually as a crop of external media featured much like a reference image. Art prompts are a creative starting point, and may be the art's main reason for being. They can be used for business, overcoming art block, exploring new ideas, simple creative direction, or expressing personal whimsy.

Artists can select their prompts and how to respond to them, but they do not fully control prompted ideas. For example, a poll with options chosen by the artist and voted on by others can be an art prompt, but engagement and donation incentive art (e.g., remove clothes at # of likes or dollars) is not an art prompt because the artist is in complete control of their ideas. Do not use this tag for "fake" prompts that are entirely original or for posts that are merely references without showing their prompt.

The artist does not need to follow the art prompt's instructions and can even go against the prompt's wishes or fulfill the prompt in unexpected ways. Merely reacting to the prompt through the art is enough.

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Art prompt examples

Direct sources:

• commission instructions
• coursework
• art prompt generators
• chan-site draw requests
• social media requests
• polls
• questions
• art challenges

Indirect sources:

• meme redraws
• congratulating or celebrating an event (e.g., birthday or milestone)
• reacting to current events or news
• re-envisioning an event from real life or scene from media, in the artist's own style, perhaps with a twist
• past conversations or personal stories
• events that triggered an emotional response, large or small
• unusual reference subjects re-imagined by the artist

Related tags

• 4chan
• art challenges (search)
• ask_blog
• meme
• meme_clothing
• milestone
• poll
• redraw
• reference_image
• twitter
• tweet