.365 Art Challenge – Daily Drawing

I have tried to do many challenges over the years, for example this study challenge. Generally, it’s hard to keep up with the set goal. This time, I decided to go with a more relaxed 365 art challenge. I’m trying to draw something every day, but only if I feel like it, and have the time. Sure, it sounds not much like a challenge, but trust me, doing something and posting it is already an achievement. It’s tough to keep things to a schedule, especially the creative process. The goal is to get to do this often enough so it becomes regular and natural. They say that you have to do a task for two weeks in order for it to become a habit. That’s not exactly true, since even after couple of weeks things could change. For example, I was doing great with this 365 art challenge before holidays, but then things got busy. Same with the quarantine, once I stopped getting out, the drive to draw daily somewhat went down. I do stumble into an occasional challenge topic on the internet, and join it, but I’d like to do something more regularly.

The .365

Here’s the collection of drawings that I did so far. I started out back in 2019, and the goal was to draw daily for a year. Hopefully, I can pick myself up and get to that point sometime in the future. For this challenge, I use small 3.5 x 5 inch Strathmore Sketch pad, Signo 0.38 Uni-ball pen, Tombow dual blender pen, and occasionally a Sakura white gel pen. These easily fit into any of my purses to draw on the go, and I have several set laying around the house in case I feel like drawing. Your comments and words of encouragement are greatly appreciated, as well as topic suggestions!

Photo of small 3.5 x 5 inch yellow Strathmore Sketch Pad that I use for this art challenge
  • .008 Raspberry

    .008 Raspberry

    I’m trying to draw some objects that tell a story whenever I travel. I find this kind of sketches have certain energy and memory tied in. This is a box of raspberries that I bought from an old lady in Ukraine. I was walking to the store, and saw her sitting with a bunch of

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  • .007 Waterlilies

    .007 Waterlilies

    Recently, I have learned about a perspective exercise that in my mind looks a lot like a lake full of waterlilies. As the result, you might see quite a few of these in the coming months ^_^ In this particular one, I added flowers as well. I actually like their shape and form. I can

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  • .006 The Leaky Cauldron

    .006 The Leaky Cauldron

    One day I got lucky and ended up in Diagon Alley 😉 This is a chandelier from the Leaky Cauldron *_*

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  • .005 Interior Elements

    .005 Interior Elements

    Since I have a lot of travel planned, it proved to be difficult to draw ever day even a tiny bit. Sometimes, I don’t even feel like lifting a pencil when I get back to the hotel. Then, I realized! I do get some free time whenever I wait for food or drink a cup

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  • .004 The Bend

    .004 The Bend

    At first, I thought that Patreon would be a great place for this type of doodles. However, I realized that their new rules forbid any type of nudity in free posts. I find this strange for an art community as majority of artists start with nude figure since clothes are even harder to draw. And

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  • .003 Robo Doodle

    .003 Robo Doodle

    Not sure what this is, it just came to stay.  By the way, it’s .000-something because this is a way to become whole ^_^

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  • .002 Dryad

    .002 Dryad

    Here’s a second sketch! This started out as a doodle to check my proportions, and then it grew on me ^_~ I used 0.38 Signo uni-ball pen and Zig water-based dye ink blender marker. This is a very cool combination since the pen dissolves as if it’s paint. Love to work with it.

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  • .001 Self Portrait

    .001 Self Portrait

    I think I’ve attempted self-portrait only once in my life as an assignment in high school. Ever since then, I was puzzled by a weird feeling one gets when attempting to draw oneself. Because we don’t actually look the way we perceive ourselves ^^ This was a quick 45-min graphite practice sketch on newsprint. Immediately,

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