A while ago, I did a post about by daily habits, where I write every day. I just finished my comics writing for the day. I still have a goal for my novel (which again I am having a hard time hitting).
But I wanted to work on my artistic skills as well. I know that writing everyday, has helped me, at least with the formation of ideas, and building stories, and drawing is supposed to be that way too. I think about Jason Brubaker’s book “Unnatural Talent” where he talks about people coming up to him and saying “Oh you have talent for drawing” and he argues that is not a talent but a skill you hone with practice. I really hope that is the case.
So on the first day of January 2019 I started drawing at least one picture a day and posting it to my Instagram page
While the goal was to draw something every day, that changed some time into the process. I would often be unhappy with my drawing, so I would look for pencils to ink. It was fun and informative to ink others work. I would try to learn a new tool in Procreate my digital drawing app of choice right now.
So as of today (I still need to do todays but) I have down it for 139 days in a row. And I think I am going to continue for a long time. Who knows maybe I will develop my art enough to the point I can draw some of my own comics.
Here are some samples of my daily creations/drawings some better than others, but that is true of my daily writing, so days the ideas flow and are better than others.
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Matt Kund 