DAILY/HOURLY COMICS :: January 1-8
John Campbell of Pictures For Sad Children fame came up with this sweet idea a few years ago to spend the month of January making "hourly comics." Basically you make a little quick comic for each hour you're awake, picking one moment per hour to give a little incremental picture of your day. Not to mention a great little comics-making exercise. John posts his really pretty great ones at his The Hourly Comic site.
Well, I can't do hourly, and most of my day is spent alone at a drawing board or alone at a computer, so. BUT I have been doing them when the mood strikes, on average a few a day. Good practice trying to simplify my style, get better at choosing the right line the FIRST time instead of trying to "fix" things later with a bunch of detail and silly hatching.
As a journaling tool it's not the best, but not the worst either. The biggest challenge is coming up (quickly) with some sort of layout and sensible composition of words and pictures, without pencil! I hate all these drawings (sort of), but I'm loving all the lessons I'm getting out of them.
Check out my little guys right here.
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