So I frequently stack too many projects on top of me to adequately attack all of them – perhaps this might be a consequence of me running upwards of two hundred projects at a time, but who can say – and the consequence of that is, some tasks that aren’t so important get the short end of the stick. For example, blogging (as you may have noticed) or going through bills (which pile and pile and pile until I doze them).
But this year, my drawing every day project has NOT been getting the short end of the stick.
I want to talk about it more later, but I’ve kept up a great buffer, and am well ahead of the game for 2025. So far ahead that I’ve started doing more complex drawings, rather than just the drawing exercises. Above, I’m redrawing one of my sketches for the Instant Book “An Original Use of Magic” for Thinking Ink Press. Frankly speaking, I’m not a great artist. But I have learned a trick for producing art better than I’m normally capable of: I redraw my own artwork over and over again until I get it right. I think it is progressing quite well.
I still have a long way to go. But I can see that I’m starting to make progress.
-the Centaur
Pictured: My portable drawing setup, which I carry with me almost everywhere I go, to facilitate the “Drawing Every Day” project.
