"But I don't have time to draw"
February 19, 2004
Draw lunch as you eat it : 1 drawing
Draw the news as you watch it: 4 drawings
Skip 1 sitcom: 3 drawings
Skip 1 basketball game: 11 drawings
Overtime: 2 drawings
Draw in the locker room at the gym: 2 drawings
Draw the coffeemaker while you wait for the coffee to perk: 1 drawing
Draw in line at the supermarket: 1 drawing
Stay up an extra 10 minutes: 1 drawing
Get up 10 minutes early: 1 drawing
Draw during commercials: 6 drawings per hour
Draw every time you smoke a cigarette: 1 drawing
Draw every time you smoke crack: 4 drawings
Draw till the waiter brings dessert: 1 drawing
Draw in the tub: 1-2 (waterproof) drawings
Draw on the phone: 2 drawings
Draw during a pedicure: 2 drawings
Draw in the doctor's/ dentist's/ therapist's waiting room: 1 drawing
Draw at the red light: 1 drawing
Get to work early, stay in the car: 1 drawing
Take the bus: 2 drawings
Draw while waiting for spouse to get ready: 2 drawings
Draw what you're cooking while it cooks: 1 drawing
Draw on the john: 1 drawing
Draw instead of reading this blog: ? drawings
"It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character." — Camille Pissarro.
A record of my exploration into all aspects of drawing, illustrated journaling, creativity, and the inspiring aspects of art. By the author of "Everyday Matters," "The Creative License", and "An Illustrated Life" and other books.
Comments
Pissarro!
Posted by: msg | February 19, 2004 04:36 AM
oooo..I feel I've been "tsk tsk-ed"
Posted by: fern | February 19, 2004 07:59 AM
oooo..I feel I've been "tsk tsk-ed"
Posted by: fern | February 19, 2004 08:00 AM
Aaaah... that's how I end up with so many sketches of coffee mugs at my local (Japanese) Starbucks, my knitting, and a couple of teddy bears... the things that just happen to be laying around when I put something down and pick up my sketch book. I suppose if I start drawing in the tub I'll end up with lots of sketches of my soap -- ooh, but that's a good one, because the soap changes shape every single day!
Posted by: Michelle | February 19, 2004 08:04 AM
I think I need to print out that list to use as a reminder... won't give up reading everydaymatters though. no better inspiration for me to pick up my sketchbook :)
Posted by: emma | February 19, 2004 08:08 AM
Yes, even though quite jet-lagged, a ten minute before bed drawing is in order! Danny, thanks for being a mentor and teacher for so many, if not all, of us! And thanks to everyone else too..you're also teachers to the rest!!
I'll check out the yahoo group soon, if not tonight...
Posted by: Amy | February 19, 2004 10:37 AM
ah, that's how some people don't see when the light turns green!
i don't believe in drawing while you eat, it's the only time i can relaz and not think about drawing.
but that's just me.
Posted by: anke | February 19, 2004 12:22 PM
Ahem, if I can just be your editor for a moment here...Drawing during commercials: 6 drawings AN hour or PER hour, not @. And..I really don't know how to draw IN the phone? Heehee! Sorry, they were bugging me, I just had to. Forgive me.
Posted by: finelyspungirl | February 19, 2004 12:51 PM
hehehe...thatz true, just as my prof.says "you DO want YOU want to do"
Posted by: Patrix | February 19, 2004 01:33 PM
YES! one small thing -- removing TV from your life -- will add HOURS and HOURS of art-making time....
there's always time to draw -- as there is always time to breathe.
Posted by: Laurie | February 19, 2004 05:39 PM
Not convinced anyone should be encouraged to do ANYthing while smoking crack! But the rest of the list is interesting and I LOVE the illustration that goes with it.
Posted by: Vicki | February 19, 2004 08:47 PM
Actually I did some sketching last year. No, really. I sketched on coctail napkins while I sat at a bar waiting for an interesting woman to walk into my life. No woman, but I did recently paste the little pieces of napkin into my sketchbook, so I've something to show for the time.
Posted by: doug | February 20, 2004 07:45 PM
Drawing is a discipline much like everything else, I find. It just doesn't seem to be, because it can be such fun - but if I were to tote up the hours I spend thinking of what I want a certain drawing to look like and translate it into, 'What the heck, draw anyway and you'll improve even if it looks lousy', I think I'd be a far better artist now than I currently am.
How funny though; I'd just decided to start doing a sketch journal when you posted this Danny! Thank you for the kick in the pants. I've now got three entries and am working on the discipline to complete the third properly.
Posted by: Shuku | February 21, 2004 12:27 AM
great ideas!
Posted by: gera | February 21, 2004 10:24 AM