dailydraw Is Live: One Prompt a Day, the Same One for Everybody
artbase's daily prompt site is live. One prompt a day, drawn from a pool at midnight UTC, the same one for the whole world — make it in any medium you like and share it on artbase.
Today we’re switching on something we’ve wanted for a long time: dailydraw is live. One prompt a day, the same one for everybody on earth, and a gallery on artbase where the results all land next to each other.
Day 1’s prompt, if you’re curious, is “A crowd all moving one way.” Which felt like the right note to start on.
How it works
The whole thing fits in a paragraph. Every day at midnight UTC a new prompt appears at dailydraw.artbase.au. Everyone in the world gets that same prompt at that same moment. You make something. You hit submit, and your piece joins that day’s gallery on artbase alongside everyone else’s take on the same idea.
That’s it. No streak counter guilting you, no tiers, no algorithm deciding whose entry gets seen. Reading the prompt needs no account at all; submitting one uses your artbase account, which is free.
The “draw” is the raffle kind
This is the bit worth saying out loud, because the name misleads on purpose: dailydraw isn’t a drawing challenge. The draw is the sense in which a raffle has one — a prompt pulled from the pool each day.
So the prompts never tell you what to work in. Paint them, animate them, sculpt them, cross-stitch them, photograph them, write them. “A crowd all moving one way” is a photograph as easily as it’s an oil painting, and both belong in the same gallery. If your medium is unusual, that’s a feature — a day’s page is far more interesting when the same sentence comes back in fifteen different materials.
The rules, such as they are
- One piece per prompt. Everyone gets one idea and one go at it, which is exactly what makes a day’s gallery worth scrolling. Changed your mind? Delete your entry and post the new one.
- Yesterday stays open through today. A late finish still lands in the right day’s gallery — step back a day on the Daily Draw page and submit from there. Anything older than that is closed, which is what keeps each day a snapshot of the same idea on the same day.
- You can peek three days ahead, no further. Enough to plan something ambitious for the weekend; not enough to batch a month in advance.
- Old prompts stay up forever. Every day keeps its page and its gallery. A closed day can’t be entered, but nothing stops you drawing it — post that one as an ordinary upload on artbase.
No AI in the loop
The prompts aren’t AI-generated. There’s a fixed pool of them and one gets assigned to each day — plain code picking off a list, not a model inventing a sentence when you load the page.
Which is the same position artbase takes everywhere else: AI work labelled, viewers in control, and member artwork never used for training.
Why a daily prompt, though?
Because the hardest part of making something is usually deciding what to make. A prompt takes that decision off your plate before it can become an evening of scrolling — and a shared prompt adds the part a personal to-draw list can’t: company. Everyone else is stuck on the same sentence you are, and by tomorrow you get to see how twenty other people read it.
If you’ve been staring at a blank canvas for a fortnight, that combination is unusually good medicine. We wrote more about why external prompts work if you want the longer version.
Come make something
Today’s prompt is up. Ten minutes is a perfectly respectable amount of time to spend on it — the point isn’t the masterpiece, it’s the habit and the company. Tag your posts #dailydraw, and see what everyone else made once you’re done.
If you’re new to artbase entirely: it’s a community-driven home for artists and writers, free to join and open to everyone — and the first 100 members still get the Founding Member badge and Pro free for life.
Frequently asked questions
What is dailydraw?
dailydraw is a daily art prompt from artbase. One prompt goes live each day at dailydraw.artbase.au — the same prompt for everyone in the world — and submissions are collected on the Daily Draw page on artbase.
Does it have to be a drawing?
No. The draw in dailydraw is the raffle kind: one prompt pulled from the pool each day. What you make of it is up to you — paint, pixels, ink, clay, needle and thread, a photograph, a song, or a short piece of writing. The prompts never tell you how to work or what to use.
Are the dailydraw prompts AI-generated?
No. They come from a set pool, one for each day, with no AI involved.
When does the prompt change?
At midnight UTC, every day. The prompt is global, so everyone gets the same one at the same moment — that is 10am AEST in eastern Australia, 8am in Perth, 1am in the UK during summer time, and 8pm the previous evening on the US east coast.
Can I still post for yesterday's prompt?
Yes, until midnight UTC. Yesterday's prompt stays open through today, so a late finish still lands in the right day's gallery — step back a day on the Daily Draw page on artbase and submit from there. Anything older is closed.
How many pieces can I post per prompt?
One. Everyone gets the same idea and one go at it, which is what makes a day's gallery worth scrolling. If you would rather enter something else, delete the piece you posted and submit the new one instead.
Can I see upcoming prompts?
Three days ahead, no further. The next-day arrow at the bottom of each prompt page walks you forward, and nothing can be posted for a day until that day starts at midnight UTC.
Do I need an artbase account to join in?
To submit, yes — entries are uploaded to artbase and collected on the Daily Draw page. artbase is free to join and open to everyone. Reading the prompt and drawing it needs no account at all.