Omnis Linea Diem

YES. That's how I feel about my drawing. When I write, I get pleasure from focusing on my craftsmanship. (Working on a VERY long prose piece now, and it requires LOTS of structure. And last week was the second time in a year when I replaced its entire spine, just to see if it would improve the story's sense of movement). But when I draw, I get pleasure from letting go completely. It's like singing in the shower. We really cut loose because there's no audience! (And great acoustics)

Andy Ihnatko

Yes yes yes yes Danielle I love this, and you, and being on Team Imperfection 2020. Have the best time in Denmark. Give those boys my love!

Lucy Bellwood

This is awesome. It's a great habit to start forming. I carry a pocket notebook (that is in my backpack, for some reason) and some cahier-style Moleskine sketchbooks (also in my backpack...) that are always with me so that if I have a moment sometime during the day, I take a sketchbook out and draw what's in front of me. Mostly as contour drawings. For me, the whole point of this was to a) form the habit of drawing what I observe, b) be okay with making mistakes, c) not be too precious about the drawings, and d) to have fun just putting lines on paper, no matter what I'm drawing. I don't do this every day, but I also do try to draw something at home, so the daily thing mostly works out. The keyword is "fun"! Drawing should be fun! Let's have fun! So here's to a fun time drawing and forming new (and good!) habits in 2020! (those are a lot of exclamation points)

I'm down for this. I keep telling myself I'm going to start drawing again, and the biggest thing holding me back is that I don't know my drawings are going to be good. I also like the ring of #imperfectvision2020, now I need to know how to use that

Melody

YESSS join me in celebrating our imperfections!!

Danielle Corsetto

YES, I think it's totally "find the right drug for you." I had trouble finding space for the "draw every day, even shitty drawings, and share them because you need an accountability partner" thing until I realized that I could share them here, where I feel less nervous about professional judgment of my not-great drawings. I'd REALLY like to try the writing for writing's sake thing sometime. I've been occasionally writing little snippets on my phone (so private!!) just for fun, and while I always swear to people I'd b a TERRIBLE prose writer, it really comes down to being a) embarrassed by my low-level vocabulary and b) embarrassed by what I write when I *have* to write. The stuff I write when I *want* to write (which rarely happens) is... I don't know if it's GOOD, but it makes me smile. It would probably make other people smile, too. For now, I can let that little practice remain private, for me. :)

Danielle Corsetto

It must be in the air this year :) I actually just picked my sketchbook back up in the days between Christmas and New Years and have decided to try to sketch a little every day. I do a lot of art challenges, or make paintings as gifts, but those focus on at least semi-finished work. I am trying to get back into just putting some implements to paper every day, even if it's just dumb doodles or scribbles or whatever. So yay for imperfect art!

Sheri Spangenberg

1) That's a cute teapot. 2) Your "draw something daily and post it" plan is interesting. A lot of the writings I read by writers who are writing about writing talk about similar things. They articulate it in ways that seem personally helpful or meaningful. Some of them pledge discipline: create every day, in some fashion, no matter what. Others pledge to be thinking about writing, but pledge not to turn writing into a source of inescapable daily pressure. "I'm going to post something every day; by exposing my imperfect, impulsive work to the world, I won't be so precious about every word or scared about showing weakness," as well as "I'm going to keep my daily writing exercises private; that way, I'll feel totally liberated to experiment and go off in crazy directions." I imagine that for people like us, creating things is a form of brain medication (or a recreational drug). Each of us need to find the right kind of pill and take it at the right frequency. Just so that you or I or anybody don't feel like failures, because we read that we should be taking the red pill with the yellow stripe every morning, and it doesn't seem to work, and then we feel like failures.

Andy Ihnatko

I'm totally here for #imperfection2020!

Christina

Hell to the yeah #IMPERFECTION2020!! Can't wait to see all of them, and have a blast again in Denmark!

I'm looking forward to seeing your perfectly imperfect drawings this year! Thanks for including us in this goal. :) -jess

NJGR