January 2025

I used to draw a doodle diary everyday from 2017 til early 2020 (I can bet you can guess what caused me to stop lol). I’d draw it on my surface laptop and post it on my tumblr blog.

At the end of December, I came across Sophie Yanow’s gentle comic habit via Lisa Hanawalt and figured I would give it a shot. It would bring me back to drawing everyday with a bit of a different structure. I wouldn’t necessarily be documenting what I did each day, and I wanted to draw on paper instead. I altered the rule to add a minute everyday you draw (which would end the year with drawing for 6 hours if you were rigidly sticking true to form) to be instead “the day of the month= how many minutes to spend drawing”. I was largely drawing during my lunch break and I didn’t want to ever go over 31 minutes. And speaking of time limit, I decided later in the month that the minutes would moreso be a cap than a strict “must draw for all twenty-plus minutes”- if I have a quick idea, I am not gonna stretch it out. Which might be against the point, but at least for now, I care more about doing something consistently than building a ton of stamina.

I did miss drawing January 19 & 20, but can you blame me? I caught up on the 21st.