One Hundred Days Project Day Twenty Seven 27/12/2009

Finally fought the war with the scanner and won. Lots of updates from my time back at my parents/the festive period. Hope you've all had a lovely time...

One Hundred Days Project Day Twenty Six 26/12/2009

Crap drawing, but I was really hungover/shakey. I forgot to bring my usual art materials, so I'm going through my teenage bedroom and using what I can find instead, like this shonky orange pen.

One Hundred Days Project Day Twenty Five 25/12/2009

One Hundred Days Project Day Twenty Four 24/12/2009

This is the curse of being the 'creative' one in the family...

One Hundred Days Project Day Twenty Three 23/12/2009

You drink this with cucumber. It's delicious.

One Hundred Days Project Day Twenty Two 22/12/2009

One Hundred Days Project Day Twenty One 21/12/2009

Bit of a glut of One Hundred Days sketchbooking due to it being the weekend, my camera being unpredictable and only deciding to work now, and being on leave from work so no scanner. I'm about to go to stay with my parents over Christmas as well, so that will make getting pictures uploaded even more difficult. I should ask for a scanner for Christmas.

Anyhow, today's effort is something I said I'd do ages ago and now I have. I got a job in London in 2008 and had two weeks to find somewhere to live and move up from Brighton. Moved in with someone who seemed ok, and turned out to be a nightmare, as detailed below...this was probably the best thing that ever happened when I lived in that house. Moved out after four months...

One Hundred Days Project Day Twenty 20/12/2009

More weekend stuff. Allard is one of my most longstanding friends, sometimes a fool but mostly an excellent person. Yes.

One Hundred Days Project Day Nineteen 19/12/2009

Grumpy Saturday night in. It would be fair to say that this winter has made me feel more grumpy, lonely and dissatisfied than any other one I can remember. Cannot wait for the new year/better weather. I keep thinking I want to move out of London, but then I remember how nice it can be in the summer.

One Hundred Days Project Day Eighteen 18/12/2009

Day eighteen. I wanted to kick my computer out of the window today.

One Hundred Days Project Day Seventeen 17/12/2009

Day 17, another done at work special. The evils of eggnog. My housemate finally finished drinking the eggnog last night, by which point it had grown more potent, and featured bits of egg that had solidified and were floating in the mixture. Tasty.

One Hundred Days Project Day Sixteen 16/12/2009

Since I started my new job in September, I have steadily been working the 'scruffy' into my daily outfit. So far I am not up to the scruffbag standards I managed to get away with in my old library job, but I'm getting there...anyway I had to take part in an IMPORTANT MEETING yesterday so I had to reel out the smart shoes, and I spent most of the day looking at my feet as if they didn't belong to me as a result.

One Hundred Days Project Day Fifteen 15/12/2009

Another cheap paper cut and stick job. I had yet another day without the sketchbook- my EVER CONSIDERATE neighbours and the strange hours they keep meant I had to take Tuesday off of work as emergency leave, as I actually had NO SLEEP AT ALL that night. Bunch of bastards. Sketchbook and I have been reunited now though! Yes!

One Hundred Days Project Day Fourteen 14/12/2009

Left my sketchbook in the office. I know it's bad because it will degrade and it's blotchy and blah blah blah, but I still really like drawing on cheap printer paper...

One Hundred Days Project Day Thirteen 13/12/2009

This was done yesterday, but scanned in today because I was without access to a scanner and my camera gave up the ghost so I couldn't even post a crappy picture. Expect todays effort tomorrow, because I am too busy to do any sneaky drawing at work! boo.

Bit of a grumpy one...

thoughts on the one hundred days project so far

So I have no sketchbook entry to post tonight, not because it's not done, but because I have no scanner here at home, and I can't even give you a crappy photo because my camera has given up the ghost. Rubbish. There will be scans tomorrow.

It's nearly two weeks in to the project, and I'm really enjoying it so far. Initially my aim was a pretty vague 'do something in my sketchbook every day' but it's kind of morphed into being a daily journal kind of thing with odd intrusions from historical figures! I'm ok with this. Before I started the project my sketchbook had been being a problematic beast to me- everything I tried to draw in it didn't work, but this has given me a focus and it's become kind of rewarding in the process- it's nice to look back at lots of solid pages of drawing and writing. It's also stopped feeling like such a daunting task, as it's become something that I am used to doing every day and actually really look forward to.

I think that's enough musing for now- for any other fellow Hundred day project people reading this- keep up the good work- following what other people have been doing is really good for inspiration not to mention really interesting.

One Hundred Days Project Day Twelve 12/12/2009

I'm about to head off to the lovely town of Watford to see my friend Allard's Dad's band, Sad Lovers and Giants, play a gig tonight. This sketchbook page kind of explains why...

One Hundred Days Project Day Eleven 11/12/2009

I cannot believe I am excited about my eye test...I need to sort out my life. I am going to colour the glasses in when I get home- there are no colouring pens or pencils in this office, sadly.

One Hundred Days Project Day Ten 10/12/2009

Another page sneakily created at work. Also, if you read the bit at the bottom you might learn something! drawings and actual historical information! wow!

One Hundred Days Project Day Nine 09/12/2009

Two items in one day! I've just spent the last hour covertly doing this at work as I'm going out with old work friends tonight and if I tried to do anything in the pub after some cider it would probably consist solely of illegible profanity laden scribble that I would look at the next day with SHAME. Today's sketchbook page is based around me making a twat of myself at lunchtime. Enjoy!

One Hundred Days Project Day Eight 08/12/2009

Day Eight. I did this last night, but it seemed pointless to put a rubbish digital camera photo up when I knew I'd be scanning it in anyway. Drawn in front of the TV...shows like this make me want to throw up a lot of the time...

Other One Hundred Days Projects that I like...

Obviously, lots of people are taking part in the One Hundred Days project. The website functions as a good hub to find out about what everyone is doing, and this blog was featured on the daily roundup a couple of days ago, but I thought I'd do a post of my own picking out the stuff other people are doing that I'm following:

Starting with Andrew, a friend from Brighton, and his excellent Haiku blog. He's written about a painting of a giant tooth I recently finished, but my favourite one is probably #6- It's like the Blur video in a haiku format. Another blog that centres around Haikus lives here. One Hundred Mythical Creatures in Haiku and does what it says on the tin. Really like the drawings that go with each entry.

I wanted to do the Hundred Days project because I felt like I was wasting my creativity a lot of the time, and it seemed like a good way to become more productive in that respect. I think this a common theme that runs through a lot of peoples projects, even though it is manifested in very different ways. Emma has made a Richard Brautigan jumper! How good is that?! I want! and I am enjoying following Sophie's daily photoblog.

Obviously I'm very drawn to art/art related projects, and Howard's enaging and excellently written blog Untitled #23 is a really interesting insight into the art he likes and why. My lame sketchbook challenge pales in comparison to Tom Humberstone's pledge to draw a comic every day for the hundred days- they all look great so far. In the last day I've also picked up on this blog, and the drawings make me jealous in the best possible way- lovely stuff.

So so far that's a round up of the projects that have caught my eye. Any more recommendations?

One Hundred Days Project Day Seven 07/12/2009

Nothing interesting to journalise today- lots of questions about records management and excel spreadsheets at work...yuck. I spent most of it making stickers of Rasputin and the results can be seen in todays sketchbook page...

One Hundred Days Project Day Six 06/12/2009

Today I have been mostly shouting at flat pack furniture...

One Hundred Days Project Day Five 05/12/2009

I got an early wake up call today...

One Hundred Days Project Day Four 04/12/2009

I spent today reappraising the music of a couple of bands who I'd consider to be favourite-band-ever kind of bands, but haven't listened to for ages, and it was really enjoyable. Now I've drawn a comic about it:

One Hundred Days Project Day Three 03/12/2009

It's day three! I'm still ill! I'm going out of my mind stuck in the house, so when I go out I buy pointless stuff! I'm living on a diet of smoothie and ibuprofen! What a life.

One Hundred Days Project Day Two 02/12/2009

Today has mostly been about eggs...

One Hundred Days Project Day One 01/12/2009

I enjoyed drawing this; it was a nice way to vent because I felt cold and ill.