On the second of January I reached day one hundred in my illustration project. The feeling of creating for 100 days in a row was great. The purpose of this project was to become more creative. My thought was that you become more creative if you are consistent. I was totally right! 😄💯👍

During the project I have started to use a new app for drawing. The Procreate app is really great with a lot of different brushes and you can export a video of your drawing process. Here you can see how the New Year monster drawing developed.

What are my findings?

During this project I realised that I can be my own inspiration. A drawing from one day can be the starting point of the next day. When you look at my illustrations you can see that I use the same colours for a few days in a row. Here you can se my De Stijl illustrations from different days. 

Themes

I have also identified nine different themes within this hundred days project. 
The themes are: 

• Orange to pink ⛺️🔶 🔺🧣🔻👛
  
• Pattern 🏁🔸🔹👁‍🗨🔸🔹🏁🔸🔹👁‍🗨🔸🔹🏁
• Dark ⬛️◼️◾️▪️⚫️🏴♣️🗯♠️🏴
• Black & white ⚪️⚫️⚪️⚫️🔳🔲◻️◼️⚪️⚫️⚪️⚫️
• Colour 🛍🏮📪🔮🔋🔫💊
• De Stijl💛❤️💙
• The comics 🏳️🗯🏳️💭
• Made with ink ✒️🖌✏️🖍
• Light background 📁🗒📉📈📨💌🔖

From digital to real paper

A digital illustration has also become the sketch for a real ink drawing. That is what happened with day 60. The small version is a print of the digital illustration. The printing was done on a Canon imagePROGraph printer on Museo paper. The small prints became my Christmas card 2017. 

Music can be my inspiration

I also learnt that music sometimes can be the inspiration of the day. That’s what happened on day 39. You can listen to my theme songs of 100 days project on Spotify. 

Anyone else like Rolling Stones?

I hope you liked to follow my 100-days project. If you have a favourite day feel free to let me know which one in the comments below (just press the headline to see the comment box) 😃 💌🗯