Are you someone who would like to start 2024 off with a fun daily creative practice? If so, our fifth annual Doodle-A-Day Challenge, a yearly partnership between Spoonflower and Rhianna Wurman of ellolovey, is for you! This is a challenge for everyone, no matter your age or skill. Sound intriguing? To learn more and find out how to participate, keep reading to see how you can begin the new year with an artistic jumpstart and be part of a fun online community too. For the competitive people among us, you’ll also learn below about a challenge giveaway that will happen at the end of the month. Click here to see the giveaway details.

A rectangular graphic for the Doodle-A-Day 2024 header. The background of the graphic is white. The header contains information about the challenge, including the year, 2024, in pink at the top, followed by Spoonflower’s wordmark and Ello Lovey’s logo in black. Next, Doodle-A-Day is in brown, followed by the month, January, in a large purple text. Lastly, there’s the social media hashtag for the challenge #DoodleADayJanELSF in brown.

What Is the Doodle-A-Day Challenge? 

The Doodle-A-Day Challenge partnership between Spoonflower and Rhianna Wurman, now in its fifth year, spawned from Rhianna’s original creation of #doodleaday in 2013 and her monthly Doodle-A-Day challenges. This challenge, like all of Rhianna’s challenges, features daily prompts to use as inspiration for drawing a doodle a day in January. The prompts Rhianna Wurman and Spoonflower have created for 2024 are related to the theme of enchantment. 

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To find out how to participate in Doodle-A-Day Challenges year round, visit @ellolovey. And if you’d like to learn more about Rhianna and her art practice, read her Meet the Artist interview! 

What Materials Do I Need to Join In? 

Regarding what you’ll need to participate, you can work in a medium that best suits your style, preference and tools you have at the ready. You can go analog, with materials like paper and pens, or digital and doodle on your phone, computer or tablet. 

If you’d like to see our tutorials for creating designs digitally, click on the link in the box below. For starters, you can also read Rhianna’s very own Beginner’s Guide to Procreate blog post.  

If you are a creative working in another medium than surface design or drawing, you’re welcome to join in the fun too. You can use the prompts and the hashtag to participate as well!

Want to Sharpen Your Digital Drawing Skills?

Daily Prompt List

A rectangular graphic with two sections, a header up top and a prompt list below. The background of the graphic is mint green. The header contains the Spoonflower wordmark, Ello Lovey’s logo, the words Doodle-A-Day January 2024 and the related challenge hashtag, #DoodleADayJanELSF. The prompts for each day are listed below.

1. Cottage
2. Crystals
3. Moth
4. Woodland Paths
5. Talisman
6. Fairy
7. Celestial
8. Secret Cupboards
9. Old Books
10. Feline

11. Witchcraft
12. Wildflowers
13. Key
14. Mushrooms
15. Moonlit Garden
16. Astrology
17. Winged Creatures
18. Stones
19. Wish Fulfillment
20. Herbs
21. Craft

22. Tree House
23. Candles
24. Mermaids
25. Potions
26. Dream
27. Storybook
28. Charms
29. Tarot
30. Castles
31. Forest Animals

Optional Color Palette

Unsure where to start regarding colors to use? Here’s an optional color palette that Rhianna created to get you started.

An optional color palette Rhianna created for this challenge. On a white background, 24 small round circles, each circle in a different color, have been placed in rows of three. Underneath each small circle is a corresponding hex code. The colors are mostly blues, pinks and purples, with a few green, peach and yellow shades, along with a black and cream.

How to Participate

  • Use the prompt list up above to guide your daily doodling. 
  • So that everyone can see and cheer on your work, you’re encouraged to share your drawings on Instagram with us by tagging your posts with #DoodleADayJanELSF. 
  • This is the type of challenge where you are free to jump in whenever and as often as you like—you don’t have to participate every day.
  • Remember that the main goals of this challenge are to have some dedicated time to work with the right side of your brain and to have fun!  

Doodle-A-Day Giveaway Information 

After the fun of our Doodle-A-Day Challenge with Rhianna wraps up, we’re celebrating your month of doodles plus giving you an incentive to turn them into surface designs with a giveaway! We’ll share more details on our Instagram on Wednesday, January 31—but here are the basics: 

  1. Create a repeating surface design based on one or more of your Doodle-A-Day drawings.
    • When we chose this year’s daily challenge prompts, we definitely had design trends in mind. This daily doodle challenge is a great way to give you a head start designing in-demand patterns for your Spoonflower shop! 
  2. Upload your seamless repeating surface design to your Spoonflower account, and add the tag DoodleADay2024 to your design.
  3. Share your design to your Instagram grid, tag us @spoonflower in the post and use the hashtag #DAD2024GiveawayELSF in your caption.  
    • When sharing to Instagram, you can a) display your design as a flat pattern or b) use a Spoonflower mockup or a mockup of your own—the choice is yours!  
    • You can learn more about downloading mockup images from Spoonflower.com in our Help Center here. 
  4. This giveaway will run from Thursday, February 1–Sunday, February 11, at 11:59 p.m. ET. We’ll choose 3 winners, who will each receive $200 in Spoonflower credit and prize packs from Rhianna! Check out the full giveaway rules here.

Need help creating a surface design? Check out Rhi’s post, A Beginner’s Guide to Procreate, for a full how-to. We can’t wait to see the doodles and designs you create! 

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Doodle-A-Day challenge?
The Doodle-A-Day Challenge, now its 5th year, spawned from Rhianna’s original creation of #doodleaday and her Doodle-A-Day monthly challenges. To find out how to participate in Doodle-A-Day Challenges year round, visit @ellolovey. 
Who can participate in Doodle-A-Day?
Anyone! This challenge is for people who like to doodle or are just curious about how a daily creative practice can benefit your life.
What are the dates for the challenge? 
The challenge runs from January 1 through January 31. However, if you’d like to challenge your doodling skills throughout the year, you can also follow Rhianna’s Doodle-A-Day Challenge prompts, which she posts monthly over on Instagram at @ellolovey.

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