Header graphic featuring the text in a variety of colorful fonts “2023 Spoonflower + Ello Lovey 2023 Doodle-A-Day January challenge” The hashtag for the event, #DoodleADayJanELSF” is below the challenge name in red font. Small hand drawn artist tools, like a paintbrush, pencil, yarn, thread and a paperclip surround the words. The entire graphic is on a white background.

Welcome to our 4th annual Doodle-a-Day Challenge, a partnership with our good friend (and Spoonflower artist) Rhianna Wurman of ellolovey! This is a challenge for everyone—professional artists, kids, aspirational drawers, occasional doodlers or anyone else who would like to tackle a fun daily project to start off 2023.  

The creative community of Spoonflower artists, makers and interior designers helped inspire this year’s theme of “making.” We can’t wait to see how you interpret prompts like “tools of the trade,” “embroidery” and even “a mess!” Read on below to see 1) daily challenge prompts on this year’s theme, 2) a link to our design tutorials, 3) how to participate as well as 4) what you could win for taking part.  

What is the Doodle-A-Day Challenge?

The Doodle-A-Day challenge is a monthlong challenge for artists and doodlers alike to draw one doodle every day in January. Rhianna Wurman and Spoonflower have come up with a prompt for each day in January 2023 related to the theme of making. 

This challenge was first created by Rhianna, and since 2019, we’ve partnered with her to share this with our community. If you’d like to learn more about Rhianna, click here to read her Meet the Artist interview! 

What Do I Need to Participate?

For this challenge you can go analog, with tools like paper and pens, or you can go digital and doodle on your phone, computer or tablet. 

If you’d like to see our wide array of design resources, please click on the button below. For starters, you can also check out Rhianna’s very own Beginner’s Guide to Procreate blog post.  

Looking level up your illustration skills?

See Our Design Tutorials

January Doodle-a-Day Prompts

A square graphic outlined in pink with a header that shares it’s for the Doodle-A-Day Challenge for January 2023. The related hashtag for the challenge is #DoodleADayJanELSF. The prompts for each day are listed below.
  1. Tools of the trade  
  1. Pottery  
  1. Fabric  
  1. Papercraft  
  1. Gift 
  1. Canvas 
  1. Mending 
  1. Pom poms  
  1. Memories 
  1. Needle & thread 
  1. Tea 
  1. Scissors 
  1. Garland 
  1. Embroidery  
  1. Wish 
  1. Gardening  
  1. Weaving 
  1. Crafting companions  
  1. Mosaic 
  1. Knitting 
  1. Conversation 
  1. Baking 
  1. Candle making 
  1. A mess 
  1. Floral arrangement  
  1. Painting 
  1. Costume 
  1. Goals 
  1. Terrarium 
  1. Wood working 
  1. Cooking  

Doodle-a-Day Rules and How to Participate

⦿ Use the prompt list above for your daily doodling inspiration. 

⦿ Share your doodles on Instagram and post them with the hashtag #DoodleADayJanELSF. Don’t forget to tag @spoonflower and @ellolovey so we can all see and encourage everyone’s work—and so you can be eligible to win our grand prize!

⦿ You don’t need to participate every day to be eligible for the grand prize, but the more prompts you post, the more chances to win. Feel free to jump in whenever you like and do as many prompts as you can or even just a few of them.

⦿ This is a fun exercise to work the right side of the brain, so we encourage you to enjoy yourself and get creative!

Doodle-a-Day Grand Prize

The grand prize winner will be selected at random at the end of the challenge. To be eligible to win, make sure you do the following for all your challenge photos: 1) tag @spoonflower and @ellolovey and 2) add the hashtag #DoodleADayJanELSF.

Spoonflower x Ello Lovey Prize Pack

$250 Spoonflower Gift Certificate 
Ello Lovey Gift Pack: 
∙ Rainbow Home in the Mountains vinyl sticker 
∙ 2023 Calendar, 8″ x 10″ (20.32 cm x 25.4 cm)
∙ Make Do & Mend Art Print, 5″ x 7″ (12.7 cm x 17.78 cm)
∙ Set of 10 assorted greeting cards   

A black calendar with a square bottom and rounded top and white around the edges sits in a silver frame. The calendar months and days are in white font and it says 2023 at the very top. A lavender and purple moth floats directly underneath the year, which is flanked by small purple flowers with green stems on either side.
ellolovey’s 2023 Calendar, 8″ x 10″ (20.32 cm x 25.4 cm)
A sticker with a rounded top and square bottom depicts the following scene from top to bottom, a dusty rose sky is filled with dark green stars and an orange moon with a white circle around it and craggy cream mountaintops perch over a small white house with a dark green chimney that’s surrounded by green trees and foliage. A cream, orange, dusty rose and yellow rainbow is underneath the house. The sticker is sitting on a bright pink piece of cardboard paper. A sharpened pencil that’s a mint color is laying below the sticker.
ellolovey’s Rainbow Home in the Mountains vinyl sticker
A handdrawn print with a white background has the words “Make do & mend” in cursive pink font on it, except for the yellow ampersand. A red button, a small card wrapped in red thread, a large spool of pink thread, an open safety pin, a tomato pincushion filled with pins, one of them just in front of the pincushion, are all below the text. The print is in a white frame on a brown wooden table and to the left of a bright yellow vase and a small white planter with a small green succulent sticking out the top.
ellolovey’s Make Do & Mend Art Print, 5″ x 7″ (12.7 cm x 17.78 cm)

SEE #DOODLEADAYJANELSF POSTS

Optional Color Palette

Need guidance on where to start with colors? Rhianna has created a color palette to start you out, which you can see here!  

Rhianna has created an optional color palette for this challenge featuring muted rainbow hues.

See Rhianna’s Beginner’s Guide to Procreate

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