how the practice gets eaten
Working more has stopped meaning drawing for yourself
- Paid work always has a better claim on the hourThere is an invoice on one side and nothing on the other. Personal practice loses that argument every week it is made.
- A daily challenge turns into another delivery queueArtists describe the point where they were making just to make, ticking items off a list, and the challenge stopped serving them.
- Halfway through, the format itself starts to grateIllustrators who abandoned hundred-day projects write about being overwhelmed and wanting to work at a different scale entirely.
pinned up
A hundred days beside the job
how it runs
Small enough to survive a delivery week
the shape of it
A hundred days beside the job
The temptation is to make the personal work impressive. Ten days is usually enough to conclude it has to be small instead.
drag the strip sideways
The temptation is to make the personal work impressive. Ten days is usually enough to conclude it has to be small instead.
A project lands and eats the week. The tasks shrink, the reports keep going out, and the practice survives its first real collision.
A hundred days in which something was drawn for nobody but you, at whatever size the week allowed.
gallery
A hundred days at the table
Professionals leave these projects for specific reasons
documented, not invented
An artist reviewing her participation describes it collapsing into making for the sake of making, like ticking off to-do items, which stopped being useful to her.
sourceAn artist who stopped at the halfway point writes that he was overwhelmed by the daily format and would rather move around and paint large.
sourceEach claim is linked to its source and paraphrased rather than quoted, since we have not verified the original wording.
before you sign up
Questions from people who draw for a living
I draw all day already. Is this just more of the same?
The tasks are yours and the report has no client attached. Whether that reads as relief or as more work is worth deciding before you join.
Can client work count as the day's drawing?
You set your own tasks, so you decide. Most people here keep the hundred days for work nobody commissioned.
Is there a portfolio review?
No. We do not review work, discuss commercial direction or give feedback on pieces.
What happens in a heavy delivery week?
You write smaller tasks and keep reporting. A fifteen-minute day is a day, and the format is built for that case.
Who else is in the group?
People on their own hundred days, at mixed levels. It is not a professional network and nothing here is a business opportunity.
A hundred days that nobody commissioned
Leave an email and we write when the group opens. Nothing is charged on this page.
- Tasks written against a real working week
- An evening report with no client and no revisions
- People fitting personal work around paid work
One email when the next group takes a start date.
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