25 Drawings in 2024

Howdy!

I’ve tried making art on a daily basis several times at different points in my life, but it hasn’t ever worked out for me.

Here’s what the folder with all of the drawings looks like on my phone as of this morning. So satisfying.

Until! About a month ago, I cut a square out of a piece of cardboard in my recycling bin, then used that to trace 4”x4” frames in a mostly blank sketchbook I had lying around. Rather than spending lots of time deciding what to draw (usually a huge dilemma), I looked for interesting subjects on either my Instagram feed or the front page of a science newsletter like Science Daily or Earth.org. Badabing badaboom, daily drawings. I missed a few days at the end of January, but I decided to just forget about them and keep going. Forward momentum > strict rules.

It’s been great practicing so regularly without worrying about what to draw, knowing I’ll have another opportunity to try something else the next day. It’s also been fun going back to drawing from references instead of coming up with something new each time. Lately I’ve been slowly dipping my toe back into my usual, more abstract style of drawing, too. Woohoo!