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Another year ending and another 365 daily drawings complete. My theme for my December drawings was Christmas and I pretty much stuck to drawing Christmas ornaments. I had started with the intention of incorporating either red or green on every drawing, but I missed a few days along the way and kind of stopped caring with the rush of the holidays. I was trying to use up the paper that I had prepared earlier so I was using grey paper quite frequently. It’s kind of ridiculous that even though I don’t love working with it, I continue to buy it. I now have two different types of grey paper, a book of Kraft and a book of blue-toned paper. Clearly I need to find a medium that I like to work with on toned paper once I get it out of the store.

Reviewing the drawings of the past year, I feel like I have improved my skills. I wish could say that I’ve improved dramatically, but I don’t really feel that’s the case. I have enjoyed some of the themes that I have worked with and I had a lot of fun trying new things – even when the results were questionable. My goal this past year (besides to improve my skills) were to work with a variety of mediums on a variety of papers. I have done that and am pleased with the result.

I’ve been thinking about how I will continue this project In 2019. Here are some notes on what I’ve come up with:

• Continue to use a small format – approximately 5.5″ by 8″
• No more black border on each drawing
• Stick to a few papers that I like
• Maybe more focus on developing my skills with particular mediums – still thinking about this
• Definitely more themes – probably one each month
• Definitely repeat some of the themes I have done in the past two years
• Possibly play with pattern and abstract stuff some months
• Possibly play with more fun approaches that don’t involve drawing from observation
• Definitely push myself out of my comfort zone (more faces? Maybe landscapes??)
• Continue to start each drawing session with quick sketches or drawing exercises in my sketchbook
• Continue to post my drawings to Instagram each day
• Add a second image to each daily Instagram post showing the materials I used for the drawing
• Possibly write a bit more here about my process/approach to drawing and my thoughts about materials
• Possibly complete a painting some days instead of a drawing