On March 4th 2023 I decided to start a #100daychallenge.
why? just so I would create "something" E.V.E.R.Y. day.
I regularly practice/sketch something in my sketchbook, but 99% stays in a practice/sketch stage, I keep practicing and mostly faces over and over. So I decided I would draw and finish something every day for a hundred days. Nothing big, nothing complicated, but something new and finished.
And, I had the perfect little book laying around a Talens Art Creation 80 pages of 140 gsm 9x14cm portret cream colored paper. I decorated the front with a beautiful sticker of Cosmic spectrum.
The last page I already used to test some markers and pens. So I had 79 pages. I numbered them with a small stamp. I only used the right side, and when I came to the end I used the left sides starting from the back.
Some of the images are with black liner and colored with highlighter, and some are colored with colored pencils, with or without black Liner.
After a couple of weeks I found it easier to draw some images within a theme a couple of days in a row.
for example:
After getting to the end of the sketchbook I starting going back and doing the left side of the pages. Three pages in, I decided that it would look nicer if I coordinated the styles left and right on the page.
At some point I forgot to stamp a page, I only saw it when I had already finished the image on that page, so I decided to number that page (#59) so I had two #59's, one with an image and one that I left empty. I wasn't sure what to do with the second #59 page, but I decided to just leave it blank. Afterwards, it turned out to be a GREAT decision! Tuns out that going to 79 and then starting on the other side from the back bring me to that empty #59 page as the #100 page!! So I made a double sided drawing as a last drawing on June 11the 2023.
I will continue to finish the sketchbook, it's another 58 page: maybe I can do 3x 20 day challenges, but don't hold your breath, it might take a while :)
Here are 2 slideshows that show all the drawings.
