This was a project called "30 Days Of..." I chose emotion, and sketched how I was feeling (with marker or watercolor) on a roughly 1" x 10" strip of paper every day for 30 days. I also wrote the date and a little blurb of info about my activities and the weather that day. (I noted, by the end of the project, that my mood is definitely heavily influenced by the weather, and whether or not I had homework to do that day!)
It was not only an exercise in habit, repetition, and series-making, but certainly also a lesson about abbreviation, in my case. I limited myself greatly on the amount of space I was allowed to use each day, and I tried to keep my drawings abstract (or maybe that was just the easiest way for me to "draw emotions"). It is also really neat to see how color, variation, pattern, shape, and line all played into how I chose to communicate each emotion/ each day.
In the end, I displayed them together by attaching them all to a piece of string. I really liked the way it looked like a mobile, and so the top picture shows it hung up.
Overall, I enjoyed doing this each day. It was a nice mini challenge to keep myself on track for a whole month, and now I want to try it again. However, I think I may use a different subject... Something external for a change, for sure.
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