After starting daily art on the 1st of September and successfully drawing every day in September, I’ve continued the habit and drawn for all 31 days of October too. I was initially trying to challenge myself to draw people but I found that was making the need to draw a bit overwhelming and I was procrastinating or avoiding it, so I switched back to drawing whatever I felt like – mostly things related to TV shows or films I’d been watching.
Again, the art’s very variable in quality and many would’ve benefited from more time being spent on them or a ‘second draft’, but I’m very happy with the achievement of keeping this going for 2 months and I even made a comic on the 8th! I think I’m also getting better at drawing what I was aiming for on the first try and much more comfortable with non-digital art. Next month I think I’d like to experiment with more digital art techniques, and hopefully actually make some more progress with my planned comic.
Here’s a tiled image showing examples of something I drew every day:
As with last month, here’s a collection of all the relevant tweets so you can see full, larger and alternative versions and so these images can be found more easily in the future.
Thursday the 1st – Day 31
A badly proportioned and wonky self-portrait in pencil on paper. Should’ve used digital art… pic.twitter.com/QkxvF7QM7I
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 1, 2015
Friday the 2nd – Day 32
Daily art, a quicky Gollum with all the proportions wrong. (I should really do faces as digital art) pic.twitter.com/16hBqUiK4B — Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 2, 2015
Saturday the 3rd – Day 33
Daily art, failed ‘clockwork squirrel made from a radio’ concept, and a basic squirrel with a clockwork key pic.twitter.com/45OX2F3XUE
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 4, 2015
Sunday the 4th – Day 34
Daily art, The Grand High Witch of All The World (don’t ask me what inspired me to draw this, I have no idea) pic.twitter.com/pumj26a3p2 — Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 4, 2015
Monday the 5th – Day 35
Because Legend of Korra made me feel happy again, my daily art is some of the happy spirits ![:)]()
pic.twitter.com/J0Y9plqmU0
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 6, 2015
Tuesday the 6th – Day 36
Quicky daily art – Gelatinous Cube goes for a walk in the park pic.twitter.com/ic5jxJbNEo — Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 6, 2015
Wednesday the 7th – Day 37
Daily art, a pretty rushed ghostly Tivolian from Saturday’s Doctor Who pic.twitter.com/ZlyWBSUBDl
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 8, 2015
Thursday the 8th – Day 38
Drawn at Nottingham Hackspace…
Challenged to draw Sonic and Mario from memory. I know they’re very wrong. Sonic’s head is different, definitely pic.twitter.com/ibIcwPCM9r — Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 8, 2015
Slightly touched up and, shock horror, *scanned in* version of the Colony Sarff Doctor Who comic drawn at @HSNOTTS pic.twitter.com/ofju1F7C5I
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 8, 2015
Bonus joke cut from the Colony Sarff comic… pic.twitter.com/nSr3dTtIGR
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 9, 2015
Friday the 9th – Day 39
ZOMG, it’s the big bad!!! (What a cluster–) #dailyArt pic.twitter.com/gHdl4Npj2x
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 9, 2015
Saturday the 10th – Day 40
I ordered mechanical pencils after the Colony Sarff comic suffered from lack of precision in the pencils used.
Daily art, an otter drawn with mechanical pencils pic.twitter.com/2hU0rJfk2o
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 10, 2015
Here’s the sheet of paper, so you can get an idea of size pic.twitter.com/nEOY22Vt8x
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 10, 2015
@Demonkid Usually the paper gets filled up more like this pic.twitter.com/JKgShaTSGE
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 10, 2015
Sunday the 11th – Day 41
Daily art, drawing Amethyst like one of my French Gems. Better than a giant robot’s? #subjective #StevenUniverse pic.twitter.com/AvfJXcAlnU
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 12, 2015
Monday the 12th – Day 42
Daily art day 42, movie Marvin, shaded with dirty eraser. Coincidentally, the Hitchhiker’s novel was published today pic.twitter.com/q3ybtV62Gu
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 12, 2015
Tuesday the 13th – Day 43
Daily art, a quick digital Morph pic.twitter.com/QAipnHz89B
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 14, 2015
Wednesday the 14th – Day 44
Daily art, a velociraptor, which I’m forcing myself to stop working on because my hand hurts from shading too much pic.twitter.com/uCjLnXd433
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 14, 2015
Thursday the 15th – Day 45
A colour enhanced lavender rhino; maximised the contrast in Gimp and colour balanced it until it matched the drawing pic.twitter.com/10PrEtNJed
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 15, 2015
Friday the 16th – Day 46
Daily art, very quick and rough because it’s past bed time – another Bill Cipher pic.twitter.com/OsIbErMagT — Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 17, 2015
Saturday the 17th – Day 47
Attempt to get a slightly better picture of that Boo daily art pic.twitter.com/kw5Tf6xlU4
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 18, 2015
Sunday the 18th – Day 48
Drawn at Nottingham Hackspace…
Sketching for my comic – spinning girl. #dailyArt pic.twitter.com/2RNLhP2N0h — Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 18, 2015
More sketches for the colour wheel panel of the comic. Going home soon because no working iPad though pic.twitter.com/SiNCHncnaj
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 18, 2015
Monday the 19th – Day 49
Couldn’t make my brain do drawing today, except neon colouring in on top of @Demonkid‘s spooky Second Life candy pic.twitter.com/Sr7QCc7TZV — Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 19, 2015
(If you don’t think that counts as daily art, meh, I posted 3 drawings yesterday)
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 19, 2015
(This actually involved lots of drawing on textures, more than I’d done on some other days, even.)
Tuesday the 20th – Day 50
Really struggling to draw today, I’ve been excessively tired all evening. I made a right pig’s ear out of this. pic.twitter.com/LlcV8DuTG4 — Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 20, 2015
Wednesday the 21st – Day 51
If I’d had the sense to use the entire piece of paper to draw this Flux Capacitor, maybe it’d have better detailing pic.twitter.com/HSDSwxjVuT
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 22, 2015
Here’s a better picture of the underwhelming tiny Flux Capacitor daily art, at least pic.twitter.com/76crjDICg3 — Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 22, 2015
Thursday the 22nd – Day 52
Coloured pencils aren’t that great for drawing detail, I should stick to using them to colour in line drawings pic.twitter.com/6q6JMI1VBR
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 22, 2015
Scanned it in because I was annoyed by how my camera made the green yellow. This was not a good use of my time pic.twitter.com/X97xG6NSWA
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 23, 2015
Friday the 23rd – Day 53
Quicky daily art, a 3D shaded Necker cube pic.twitter.com/0hRiUkfmMb
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 24, 2015
Saturday the 24th – Day 54
Daily art, a quick and dirty Sojourner rover, because The Martian was awesome but I’m tired pic.twitter.com/FPRwlzchJv
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 25, 2015
Sunday the 25th – Day 55
Daily art, an hour of digital painted mandarin duck (yes, my method starts with it being all done super blurry) pic.twitter.com/oeytZMJIuV
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 26, 2015
Monday the 26th – Day 56
Quicky daily art as I haven’t even washed up after cooking yet and it’s 20 past midnight – freehand Penrose triangle pic.twitter.com/mGjY2MlmVq
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 27, 2015
Tuesday the 27th – Day 57
Daily art, Tangle pic.twitter.com/TXSp5PDwJQ
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 28, 2015
Wednesday the 28th – Day 58
To tired to do real daily art so yet another Bill Cipher. Sort of. pic.twitter.com/hqMP2X8pqK
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 29, 2015
Thursday the 29th – Day 59
Daily art, grey wagtail pic.twitter.com/AHut2lbWAz
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 30, 2015
Friday the 30th – Day 60
Daily art DAY 60 – The Fly …well, a fly. pic.twitter.com/Wui76chFyE
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 30, 2015
Saturday the 31st – Day 61
Quick Zygon to round out my second month of daily art pic.twitter.com/9ogVeY9gZx
— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) November 1, 2015
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