Parents · twenty minutes, rarely the same twenty

A hundred days in the gaps the children leave

The time exists. It is just never where you left it. A practice built on a clear hour will not survive a household, and one built on three small tasks might.

The hour you planned for does not arrive

why the plan keeps failing

The free evening is provisionalIt exists until someone wakes up, or the homework runs late. A practice that needs an uninterrupted hour is a practice that happens twice a month.
Plans get made for an ideal dayYou size the drawing for the evening you hope to have. Then the real evening arrives and the whole thing is cancelled rather than reduced.
Taking the time feels like taking it from someoneWhich is why the first thing you drop is the thing with no external obligation attached, and drawing has none by default.

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A hundred days without a fixed hour

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before you sign up

Questions about fitting it in

Are there live sessions I have to attend?

No. Everything is written and asynchronous: tasks in the morning, a report at night, whenever those moments happen for you.

What if I only get fifteen minutes a day?

Then the three tasks are five minutes each. The format assumes fragments rather than an hour.

What if the children are ill for a week?

You report the missed days and continue. The count is of days in the programme, not of an unbroken streak.

Can I draw with my children and count that?

You write your own tasks, so yes. Nobody here checks what conditions the drawing happened in.

Do you teach anything?

No. No lessons and no critique. You get the daily structure and the people keeping it with you.

01

Three small tasks, taken whenever the gap appears

how it runs

3 1 ∞ tasks, morning report, night people reading it
  1. 01 Write the tasks in the morning, deliberately small Ten or fifteen minutes each, so a gap that opens without warning is already usable. Nothing needs setting up first.
  2. 02 One report at night, whenever night arrives There is no session to attend and no hour to be free at. The only fixed point is that the day gets closed in writing.
  3. 03 A group in the same arithmetic Other people drawing in the half hour after bedtime. Seeing a fifteen-minute day reported as a day makes it easier to file your own.

the shape of it

A hundred days without a fixed hour

frame 1

You learn what actually fits into an interruptible ten minutes, which rules out most of what you were planning to draw.

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Day 1–10

You learn what actually fits into an interruptible ten minutes, which rules out most of what you were planning to draw.

Day 30

A week where the household takes everything. The tasks drop to one, the reports continue, and the run does not break.

Day 100

A hundred days of small sessions. Consistency here comes from the size of the task, not from protecting a slot nobody can protect.

in pictures

A hundred days without a fixed hour

the table

the table8 photos in the gallery

the hands

the hands9 photos in the gallery

the room

the room8 photos in the gallery

the pages

the pages9 photos in the gallery

Three tasks each morning. One report each night. A hundred days of art.

what the format looks like elsewhere

The paid alternatives are built on short sessions too

10 minutes
The daily commitment in DrawTogether's drawing challenge, which pairs ten minutes a day with prompts and a chat for participants. source
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Ten Minute Artist sells a plan for starting a daily drawing habit in ten-minute sessions, with reminders and a members' community. source

Facts above are taken from the linked pages. Prices change and we do not restate them here.

A hundred days built out of small gaps

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