When I took on the #100DayProject I knew it would be hard for me to commit to doing a sketch every day for 100 days. I also allowed myself some slack so if I missed a day, it would be OK to catch up the next day. It didn’t happen often, and I did really well, until Day 75. At that point, we had company here, and then were on vacation. Despite the fact that I’ve taken some online courses on sketching while traveling, it’s not anything I’ve been comfortable doing. I always feel like my photography takes enough personal time while traveling, and to ask fellow travelers to find something to do while I sketch has never seemed reasonable.
But over the last month, since we’ve returned I’ve been working to complete the project, and now have 100 sketches done between April and August. Since I hadn’t done any sketching for nearly a year, I’m pleased with the outcome.
Some of the sketches I like quite a bit, some I wouldn’t think of sharing! I found some of the images to sketch on Pinterest, some came from photographs I took, some are objects I found around our house, or flowers from our garden.
More than half the sketches were done in ink, then watercolored. I used my good Daniel Smith watercolors, my Inktense watercolor pencils, and my Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors. Some were left as pencil sketches, and a few were just pen and ink, or colored with markers or colored pencils.
All in all, it was a good project. I don’t expect I’ll be able to maintain a daily habit even now, but I do hope to get 3 or more sketches done each week.