{"id":247,"date":"2009-06-17T16:24:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T22:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/?p=247"},"modified":"2009-06-18T07:58:58","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T13:58:58","slug":"daily-doodles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/daily-doodles\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Doodles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I started the blog way back when, I had the intention of posting artwork every day &#8211; hence the name Daily Art Food. Well, you know what they say about good intentions.<\/p>\n<p>I think part of my problem was in trying to make a masterpiece every time I sat down with the pad and pencil. It is just too much pressure and if the first few lines aren&#8217;t perfect, I often give up in frustration half way through and erase the whole mess. Not good.<\/p>\n<p>This habit of perfectionism has left me with lots of half started and started but erased images, and a lot of blank sketch books. Rather counter productive to a daily art blog.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday my Spring issue of MO Scribbles (the quarterly newsletter for the local chapter of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scbwi-mo.org\/\">SCBWI<\/a>) arrived in the mailbox. I always enjoy the 30 minutes or so it takes me to read through all the articles and new bites, so I sat down after a fruitless and frustrating day fill with software malfunctions and sullen teen-aged attitude. Ah. Me time.<\/p>\n<p>A rare article for the illustrator graced pages 2 &amp; 3. The title is &#8216;You Won&#8217;t Be Sorry&#8217; written by <a href=\"http:\/\/richdavis1.wordpress.com\/\">Rich Davis<\/a>. In it he suggests that an artist take a 30 minute scheduled &#8220;play time&#8221; and sketch whatever. Just drawing for the sake of drawing. No pressure to perform or creat anything but whatever you might want to draw at the moment. Similar to a writer&#8217;s stream of consciousness exercise.<\/p>\n<p>He lists 8 tips for success. All 8 tips make perfect sense to me. When I read them, I shook my head wondering why I hadn&#8217;t come up with this on my own sooner. I mean, as a teen and in my early 20s, I scribbled many a nonesense drawing and filled oodles of sketch books with non-masterpiece works of art.<\/p>\n<p>He concludes the article with another list. This one is called 10 benefits I&#8217;ve gleaned from this practice. None of the 10 items listed are earth-shattering, but again, they are things I&#8217;d like to accomplish in my daily practice as an illustrator.<\/p>\n<p>So I said to myself, &#8220;Self, there is no time like the present.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I grabbed my shiny new art pens. (Multiple sized markers in rich black permanent ink from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.officemax.com\/\">Office Max<\/a> no less!) and a neglected sketchbook and got down to business. Not business, but playtime. Let&#8217;s call a spade a spade, shall we?<\/p>\n<p>Without further ado, I present to you the daily doodle page for June 17, 2009.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/doodlepage6-17-09.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"248\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/daily-doodles\/doodlepage6-17-09\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/doodlepage6-17-09.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"722,492\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"doodlepage6-17-09\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;daily doodles for June 17, 2009&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/doodlepage6-17-09-300x204.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/doodlepage6-17-09.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-248\" title=\"doodlepage6-17-09\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/doodlepage6-17-09-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"doodlepage6-17-09\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/doodlepage6-17-09-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/doodlepage6-17-09.jpg 722w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>click on the thumbnail to view a larger version.<\/p>\n<p>Rich challenged his readers to stick with it for a month. I plan to accept the challenge. And even if I cannot post my progress everyday because I will be traveling and away from the computer, I will carry the trust sketchbook and marker with me on my travels.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to 30 minutes of scheduled playtime everyday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started the blog way back when, I had the intention of posting artwork every day &#8211; hence the name Daily Art Food. Well, you know what they say about good intentions. 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