Danny Gregory is a visual journaler who had published several books encouraging people (not generic people, specific people, you) in the habit of being present in their lives and using visual journaling to that end. I recently came across a copy of "An illustrated life" and have been lugging it around with me. I also read portions of "The Creative License" when I was first drawing two years ago.
On his website (linked above) he published a list of "everyday matters challenges" with specific items to draw. Things that are around you. I started doing that a while ago and didn't get every far. Not that I stopped drawing things around me, I just didn't go through a list.
I've decided to revisit the list. I printed it out and taped it into a small moleskin that I had. This is the inside front cover. I have more on the last page and inside back cover.
Because I am the kind of person I am, I was trying to do them in order last time, and I think that hung me up. And when I was looking at his book with all kinds of insane fun, intimate, expressive pages from different people, I thought, this is one of my pathologies. This is me trying to fit into some rule or some structure that isn't working for me but which I invented.
So since I'm still me, I decided that going back to the list would be my structure, but this time, no need to do any order. This list is a prompt. If it helps, great. If I can use it to nudge me into daily drawing, great. But it's not a limit. It doesn't define what I do, it supports it.
So that's the plan. Making my pathology work for me.
