The Almost Daily Sketch 2015
Hi there. How are you?
Happy 2015!! (How can it possibly be 2015 already?? I swear Y2K was just 5 years ago!)
I'm happy to be back here on the blog...I'm hoping to have much to share with you here in 2015. First up, my new sketchbook.
For the better part of 10 years I have been keeping a sketchbook. It's always in my purse and when I've got a spare moment I can pull out and doodle away. I am terribly brand loyal and have not used anything but a Moleskine to sketch in for years now. This year I decided to switch it up a bit.
I came across "The Daily Sketch Journal" at the local TJ Maxx. (Love that place! Do you ever dig in the papergoods/craft supply section? It can be a gold mine!) I've been wanting to challenge myself to do a daily drawing project for some time now. This book gave me the impetus to do it...Sort of. By end of New Year's day 2015, I knew I wasn't going to be able to stick with making a drawing every day. My doodles tend to get complicated, and I can easily spend a few hours on each one. I reckoned that could commit to drawing one every other day. So that's the plan! One drawing, every 2 days.
Here are my first 2 entries. What do you think?
What I like about the "Daily Sketch Journal" is that there are no dates on the pages, just a Day number and a space to write the date. No pressure to draw every day that way. The book actually only has room for 356 drawings anyway, so it's looking like it will take me about 2 years to knock this one out.
On the downside, this sketchbook itself is a little larger than I'm used to, but I can still get it into my purse, so I'll make it work. The other minus to this sketchbook is the weight of the paper. As it's a little thin, drawings can sometimes bleed through the pages. (Please excuse my dirty fingernails! I was cleaning most of the day. Ugh.)
Until next time. Ta-ta!
P.S. If you'd like to see more of my sketchbook, do follow me on Instagram. I post there much more frequently than I do here.
