I just had a great idea: I should try to draw something every day for 4 weeks! 28 days, because that's a nice number. It's not too dissimilar from when I wrote an album for the February Album Writing Month, and though that album turned out awful, I was happy to have produced an album of sorts at all.
Why start now, instead of at the start of the month? Because I just came up with the idea. Why not wait for the start of next week or even next month? Because why delay, that's why. Except I will delay by starting tomorrow, not today, as it is night time and I'm about to head off to bed.
I'm posting this to hold myself accountable and to actually pull through instead of discarding the idea tomorrow – let's hope it works! I will update this page with my drawings.
## Day 01
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altText="Drawing of day 1. A girl looking to the left. Her shoulder-long hair is flowing free. She is wearing a cropped t-shirt and a pair of jeans. Her left hand is on her hip."
It's the first day of the challenge and I already thought about quietly deleting this post and pretending there never was a challenge to begin with. By around 3 PM I did manage to start though, and I drew something I'm pretty happy with.
I started with the head shape, which I later corrected to be a bit taller, since that was something I criticised in my own earlier drawings. I'm actually quite happy about her head and her face – I think that something I, *relatively speaking!*, excel at. On the other hand, it feels like hair is something I struggle with the most. I wanted to avoid drawing yet another girl in quick succession with the same hair style, so I tried going for free-flowing hair, and it *kind of* worked out, but it also *kind of* looks odd. Definitely something I should go look at references for.
Similarly, I wanted to avoid drawing another girl with a sleeveless tank top, so I went for a slightly baggy cropped tee, and jeans just to have some extra detailing. I was quite happy about small details like the tee's sleeves wrapping around her arms, it made the drawing look just a *little* bit less flat.
Arms are troubling too, not because they're insanely difficult to draw, but because I never know where to place them <span class="small-supertext">just like mine irl</span>. I eventually settled on putting her left arm on her hip, which ended up quite cool.
I was too afraid to colour the drawing, worried I'd ruin it, but if I had done so, I'd have given her purple eyes. Don't know why, but that's the one colour detail about this drawing that I was sure of.
Not sure what to draw next, but I think I'll either go for another person but from a different perspective, or an object.
## Day 02: Struggle
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altText="Drawings of day 2. The drawings include a black silhouette of a girl taken from the Bad Apple music video, a smiling water tower, a tuna fish, a tuna fish can, a character with shoulder-length hair looking to the right, and one without hair looking somewhat straight."
Well... I persevered. That's probably the most positive thing I can say for today. Urge to delete the post and quit the challenge was strong.
I didn't really know what to draw, so I started copying a frame from the beginning of Bad Apple, which I first wanted to detail but then decided to fill black because the details looked bad.
Out of ideas, I looked up above my monitor and stared at the vinyl record sleeve for underscores' Fishmonger album, so I drew the water tower on the cover. Fittingly, I tried copying a tuna fish I found online, and then drew the can with no reference (can you tell?).
I was then *slightly* motivated after watching [this video on drawing](https://youtu.be/XeIR7P82aPU) by pikat and drew first the head in the bottom left, then the one bottom centre. I kinda like the head shape of the bottom left one.
I think something that's definitely hindering me is a lack of direction, and possibly motivation too, just like with my other projects. I don't really know what to draw, how to draw, what to improve. I'll try watching some more videos, but I'm a bit afraid of falling into the tutorial trap and not being able to draw things without 1:1 reference. I do actually have a handful of ideas I'd like to draw, but I feel I'm not skilled enough to successfully draw them, so I'm kind of holding off on trying them.
Honestly: this felt super stressful to do today! I felt like I had to perform, but I kept postponing all day, just to feel the need to churn out something in the final hours of the day. Being done for the day feels like a relief, but tomorrow's attempt is already looming on the horizon.
## Day 03
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altText="A copy of Asuka from Neon Genesis Evangelion."
Last night, I remembered some screencaps I took of Neon Genesis Evangelion as reference material for 3D modelling and decided I could try to use it as reference for drawing as well. So I did! I tried to draw Asuka.
I started with the head shape and definitely immediately screwed up, as I made her chin way too long. The eyes didn't turn out too bad; definitely a little better than yesterday's attempt at perspective.
Tried to do shadows/shading as well, and it turned out kind of neat, though obviously without much thought as it's clearly just a carbon copy.
I'm wondering whether I should try to trace some art, just to get a feel for dimensions? Again though, I don't want to depend on tracing, so I'm a bit wary of trying it.
