I’m currently accepting donations to fund getting my year art project into a book form. Any donation, no matter how small would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your help!
There are plenty of rewards to be had at many levels, some even including art created during this project!
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I was just looking over my project, and something didn’t add up… I’m off on my daily count! I skipped over days 186, 187 and 188. Since it would be a pain to go back and correct all those numbers. It’s looks like I’m going to have to go over 365 days (but not really). Oh well, better to be honest and accurate.
Now that I’m close to the end of my year long project (under 20 days to go) I thought I should start sharing with you what I’m taking away from this experience.
First off, I think that most of the work is NOT a fair representation of my work. About 90% of it I wish would have never seen the light of day. That is why this experiment is becoming very interesting. I’ve gotten from a few people that the fact that I post something every day, and that I don’t censor what makes it to the site, is what’s interesting to them. They enjoy seeing the process, even though it hurts me sometimes to look back on some of it.
For probably the last 100 days or so, I felt like doing this project was a big mistake. I felt bad about it, I was wishing it would turn out to be something completely different than it is. I then had a conversation with my friend Scott, and he boosted my spirits about it, giving me a little motivation to finish out the project with a little style. About the same time as this conversation, I went to my homepage (www.andyerickson.net) and noticed how much I like my randomized mosaic of the art project on that page. They both made me look at the project as a whole, and not at it’s individual parts. The whole year long project is the art, not the daily entries.What I’m doing, not what I’m producing is where the art is. As it always is, life is the art.
I’m going to try and throw in some more narratives into the blog before I end it in a few weeks. I need to get these ideas off my chest, and hopefully help you understand what I was trying to do this whole year.
Well, it looks like either no one is looking, or no one is playing attention, because I just had to do a few days worth of corrections because I got off on numbering my days. Well, if you feel like you want to true story, take a look back over the past few entries.
While I was looking through my site analytics, I noticed that the site was getting a decent amount of hits for the search term “Quad City Artists”. I did that search, and I’m coming up about fourth on the first results page. That’s pretty awesome, if I can pat myself on the back for a bit. I hope that will help get the word out more about me, but it also feels like I need to get some more quality work on the site.
Speaking of that, I apologize if my work quality is lacking. March has been an extremely busy month for my family, and I kept finding myself again, stuck at the end of the day and still needing to do something. I’ll try and get you more something of substance.
One again, I’ll also plead with you to help me get the word out. The great search rankings will help, but word of mouth will help even more. And also, you can yourself, and your friends, become a fan of me on Facebook.
Okay, so I’ve had this idea for a painting for a long time now, but I’ve yet to find the canvas I want for it. So I guess what I’m asking for is does anyone have a giant sheet of metal I can have? I don’t care if it’s clean, dirty, rusty, banged up, what type of metal, whatever. And the larger, the better. I’ll come and pick it up (as long as the distance is within reason). If you’ve got more than one, even better. Let me know if anyone can help out, please just use the contact form on this site to let me know.
Thanks for your help, and if I find what I’m looking for, it will for sure end up on the site.
Now that I’ve reached a pretty substantial number of pieces on the site, I’ve made an addition to the homepage. I’ve added a mosaic of thumbnails of everything I’ve uploaded. It’s a very cool way to look at it all. There’s a random preview version of it on the homepage, but then there’s the mosaic with everything uploaded here. Let me know what you think!
First off, I’d like to apologize for some of the quality of the art the past week. I was enjoying my new drawing style, but I think I’ve become bored with it for now. I’m thinking of working on a multi-day project to create a true comic book style drawing, similar to what my friend Scott is doing over at his site.
I also did the math, and it looks like I’m only one day off of having my 100 day of art falling on Christmas. That would have been too cool for that to happen. Oh well, it’s still exciting that I’ve gone this far. I need to prioritize better and get my projects done sometime before 10pm at night. That’s part of the reason the quality have been lacking.
Also, I don’t know if no one is watching this blog, or if everyone is just RSSing it, but the few comments I was getting have dropped off. One reason I did this was to get some criticism, so if you’ve got something to say and help me out, please do so.
Thanks again for watching.
I can’t believe that I’ve kept up this project this long. I’ll be honest, there are some days that it feels like a chore, but for as many days that there are these, I almost always end the day glad I forced myself to do the work. Some of the pieces have worked well, some not so well, but that’s the nature of this beast. I’m not sure how big of a following I have going, but if you’ve been liking watch me work through my issues, then please pass on the word about this blog. Webdisaster has given me a few good promotions, which has been much appreciated. He is doing a similar project to mine over on his site.
There is also one thing that I find hard to believe, and that is how fast 50+ days have gone by. I’ve never really counted the days like I have since starting this project, and it really is amazing how it goes. It’s almost a performance piece in itself.
Well, keep the feedback coming, and I look forward to the remaining 300+ days.
A friend and co-worker of mine has also recently started a daily art blog, attempting to do one 15 minute sketch a day. He also works on his own web-comic which is also found on the same site. Please, show him as much love as you show me.
This blog is the documentation to my attempt to create one piece of art a day, no matter how small, for a full year. Just thought you might be curious.
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