Fueled by Clouds & Coffee: November 26

2012

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.)