Draw your ideal ice cream cone—how many scoops, what flavors, what toppings?
Sketch all the random stuff you’d pack for a perfect beach day.
Fill a page with starfish, jellyfish, and underwater doodles.
Flip-flops, sandals, water shoes—give them fun patterns or designs.
Imagine pool floats or beach toys drifting on water. Add playful reflections.
Doodle a picnic blanket with fruits, drinks, and sandwiches.
Invent a destination and draw the souvenirs you’d bring home.
Mix suns, clouds, and raindrops into expressive weather doodles.
Sketch lemonades, iced teas, or fruity cocktails with details like straws and ice cubes.
Draw a page inspired by your favorite summer song—visualize the feeling.
Invent wild and quirky sunglasses, each with a different lens shape or reflection.
Pick a day from a real or imaginary trip and doodle what happened from morning to night.
Capture a glowing evening scene with tiny fireflies, stars, and silhouettes.
Draw an old-school ice cream truck and the treats it sells.
Fill a page with daisies, sunflowers, and other blooms—real or invented.
Sketch elaborate castles with flags, buckets, and tools around them.
Draw what you’d see looking out a summer cabin, beach shack, or city window.
Even summer has cloudy days—sketch a cozy rainy scene with puddles or a mug of tea.
Bees, butterflies, and beetles make great tiny doodles.
Create a visual diary of a road trip, with gas stations, roadside diners, and highway signs.
Pick your favorite summer quote and fill the space around it with related mini doodles.
Hopefully, these summer doodling prompts sparked a few ideas or gave you a reason to pick up your pen today. But the creative journey doesn’t have to end here.
If you’re in the mood to keep drawing, head over to this post on travel sketching and holiday adventures for more ideas that blend movement, memory, and imagination. Or take a moment to explore the artmefree gallery for visual inspiration, and browse the artmefree shop to bring a piece of that creative energy into your daily life.
Keep doodling—summer is a season, but creativity lasts all year.