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The more I think about the idea of a perpetual sketch journal,
the more I think it’s probably not sustainable, at least if I try to execute it
in the way I described during my recent musings (I do have more thoughts
that I may talk about eventually, if they crystalize into concrete ideas).
While thinking, though, I kept reminding myself that my own PC’s
hard drive can be used instantly like a perpetual sketch journal because I date
every file I scan in a consistent manner. I can pick any date – say, Nov. 26 –
and type “11-26-” into the search line of my “sketches” folder, and the search
results will be every sketch I scanned on Nov. 26 since 2012 (the year I began
sketching, 2011, wasn’t a complete year, and I hadn’t yet begun a daily habit).
Just for kicks, I did exactly that, and the sketches shown
in this post are the results. (In some years, I made more than one sketch on
Nov. 26, but I included here only one from each year.) Kinda fun, huh?
Especially since it was so fast and easy. Although I’m still fascinated by the
idea of creating a perpetual sketch journal organically in the same book, year
after year, this was so much easier than trying to develop the physical
mechanism for doing it. If this is the way I have to view my perpetual
sketch journal, I might be OK with that.
(Ironically, a sketch for 2025 is not included here because it’s
a Pencilvember sketch that I’m putting in a separate post.)
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You may be on to something here! But I do get that an actual sketchbook you worked in would give a very different feel to looking back at the same date as you sketch the current one.
ReplyDeleteWhat's cool about this digital method is that I get the instant satisfaction of seeing a series of years already. The big drawback with starting a fresh perpetual journal of any kind is that the whole first year is a bit frustrating ... there's nothing to look back at. I guess, for me, the fun and satisfaction is in the retroactive part, and I'm not good at delayed gratification ;-) . I'm still noodling, though...
DeletePerhaps you could print out small versions of the previous year's sketches that could be pasted into the sketchbook to get things rolling, something you could look forward to seeing as you work in the sketchbook. Just noodling . . . ;-)
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