List A: Rules for actions
- Don’t lift pen/pencil off page
- Draw in short jagged (broken) lines
- Draw with eyes closed
- Draw with left hand
- Draw with both hands at the same time
- Finger paint
- Incorporate a different color everyday
- Use a different medium everyday
- Use different kinds of paper everyday
- Draw only the silhouette
- Draw only the inside
- Draw at a different time of day (morning, afternoon, night)
- Draw in the dark
- Use makeup products
- Use Polaroid film
- Draw to different genres of music
- Incorporate something three dimensional everyday
- Draw everything upside down
- Use a different body part
- Leave the middle of everything blank
- Start in the middle of the page
- Draw in circles
- Draw in a different shape everyday
- Draw with eraser
- Draw with food
List B: Rules for themes
- Incorporate horoscope
- Use one thing you couldn’t stop thinking about today
- Different city
- Different vacation
- Different person in my life
- Different word associated with the day
- Topic that starts with the same letter of the day
- Something to do with the number of the day
- Last text message
- First text message of the day
- Something I bought today
- Start as a journal entry
- Picture from the same day, different year
- Different designer
- Different childhood memory
- Something inspired from NYC
- Something inspired from home
- A news article from today
- A new artist
- Something that happened on this day in history
My rule is to not lift my pen or pencil off the page. I chose this rule for action because it will force me to stop hesitating and allow the drawing to become more therapeutic rather than meticulous.
My idea for my rule of theme came from a book called A Line A Day. It’s sort of like a daily journal but instead you can keep track of each day over the span of a few years. When the same day comes up in a different year you can read what happened on the same day a year ago. Instead of using my personal experience because I haven’t kept this journal I decided to learn something about that day from any year in history, which I thought would be interesting.
