Create a mural on a wall in your living room or bedroom. Designing a mural lets you express your creative talent on a space everyone can admire. Before you start creating landscape or illustration ideas, pick the wall in your home that will call the right amount of attention to your work. Maybe the living room is too public, but a bedroom or sunroom is just right. Choose to paint with oils, watercolors or acrylics, or use spray paints and materials like sponges or stencils. Take a design from your artist's notebook, or start building a new idea. Landscapes, like ocean scenes or leafy gardens, create depth and imagination in a room. Designs and patterns also make a good fit.
If you are an artist who likes to make and build crafts, designing notecards is an ideal vocational project. For the next event you host, such as a birthday party, a Valentine's Day gathering or a Bar Mitzvah, design creative artistic cards to send to your family and friends as invitations. Use mixed media to create the cards, such as fabrics or cardboard. Or, decorate each card with a pen and ink line drawing. For example, for a New Year's Eve card, draw a detailed clock with the hands pointed to midnight and write the words "It's about time..." on the outside and "...for a happier year" on the inside. Your friends and family will most likely save your cards or maybe in frame them, even in a series if you consistently create them each year. If you really enjoy the work and get a lot of compliments, you may turn your card-making crafts into a small business venture.
Even if you are not a big fan of comic books, if you love to draw and write, it is an ideal medium. As a vocational art project, create a comic book line. Draw a few characters, design a couple of environments and plot a brief story line to get started. For a comic effect, after you have the characters drawn, embellish one or more of their features, such as making one character have an enormous or tiny mouth. But, you do not have to play with features --- you can also create characters like you would in a painting or realistic drawing. When writing the story to accompany the characters, you can go square by square or have the entire series plotted out from the beginning. Use sound bubbles, or text underneath the drawings, with your prose writing. Experiments with voices, tones and moods for the project, such as having one character always speak in verse or one who never says anything with a smile.
If you are used to working with paints, clays, graffiti work or paper and pen, expand your art knowledge to pottery. Research the art of pottery, looking at examples of "outside of the box" pottery designs and materials, such as inlaid glass or painted earthen clay. You can create a creative plates, mugs and bowls with vivid colors and designs, spin vases and paint them with original landscapes or portraits or create a bust out of clay. You can buy a pottery wheel or try to negotiate with a local art college or art studio to pay for use of their space if you bring your own materials.