Noticeable Changes

I wouldn't normally post a drawing involved in my 100 Days project individually (the bottom drawing is a part of one), but check this out. The shoes on the top were drawn about two years ago. The ones on the bottom, tonight. Different shoes, but same type and taken from the same angle.

This is what formal drawing classes do:

100 in 100

As I sit with my Mac on a ramshackle hotel bed of a Red Roof Inn in Toledo, I feel it necessary to announce the start of a project of pretty decent lengthiness.

100 ARTS IN 100 DAYS

READ ALOUD AND PRESS PLAY

Yes, it's exactly what you think. From May 10th to August 18th, my goal is to produce 100 half-decent to decent original works of art. That's 100 possibilities for something small and unnecessary to include in a portfolio, 100 possibilities for a Facebook comment that will resemble "OMGZ I LUV UR ART", and 100 possibilities for something to go up on my grandma's fridge.

Also, I figure if I do 100, at least one will be good.

If you were curious, no, this is not an original idea. I credit this little project to one guy (whose blog I happened to have found on StumbleUpon), who did what I'm planning, but on a much larger, more ambitious scale. He did one creative work of art everyday for 365 days; really original, and pretty cool.

Unfortunately, it's not all that original. After a simple Google search, it turns out a shit ton of people have done the same exact thing, and are currently in the process of doing so for this year. Fortunately, that doesn't make it not cool.

So it's not the most original idea I've ever come up with (and I don't come up with many), but thorough research has confirmed that it is, in fact, cool. I won't be posting a blog for every day of the 100, but rather a final blog at the end of August with a cool scrollbox or something showing all of them. If you want day-by-day updates, check my photo album on Facebook that I'll be dedicating to the project (friend me - Blake Gifford).

I'll still be posting the other side projects (like the 24"x 36" posterboard I plan to go to town on) I do on here, so keep watching for posts!

P.S. 1038 views = awesome. Thanks everybody!