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The Daily Challenge is On – Again

After receiving encouraging comments from my previous blog post, I’ve decided to continue participating in daily365 even though I’ve missed many days — okay, one whole month! In this post, I just wanted to showcase stuff I’ve done recently:

For day 73, I continued working on the logo for my husband’s ceramic business. He sat down with me whilst I worked on this so I had a lot of input from him. I may tweak it some more but he asks not to make any major changes. If you’re interested, you can see the sketch and grayscale version.

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daily365 FAIL

Back in December, I posted about the daily365 challenge. I was really excited about this challenge; it would give me a chance to flex my creative muscles. I started strong in January but after a few days in February, I stopped altogether.

Before I discuss my blatant failure in this challenge let me show a few of my creations.

daily365 Logo

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Daily Photo, Design & Drawing For 2010

I just recently read an article over at Smashing Magazine titled Design Something Every Day! written by Jad Limcaco. He challenges us designers, artists, photographers, writers and even developers to design or create something everyday for at least 15-20 minutes starting 2010. I think this is a wonderful challenge!

This year, I occasionally created something for fun and practice but I feel like I need to do that more often! For 2010, I’ve decided to do 3 different things:

• Participate in Project 365: I’m no photographer but I still enjoy snapping pictures.
• Draw something everyday
• Design something everyday

Ideas

• I’d like to improve my knowledge of anatomy so I’m going to draw a body part for a whole week once a month.
• Draw a small object from life
• Draw a pose from PoseManiacs.
• A popular suggestion: Design a typography poster using a quote.
• I love Jessica Hische’s Daily Drop Caps and I love pixel art so I’m planning on creating small pixel letters (hopefully) as beautiful as Jessica’s!
• With regards to web design, I’m thinking of designing a business card site in different styles like grunge, minimal, retro and so on.

Those are just a few ideas I have in mind. Please help a girl out and suggests some design and drawing activities!

Resources

If you’re taking on this project but have no idea what to do, by all means try my ideas. Below are a few websites to help and inspire you:

• 101 Projects for Artists and Illustrators by Dani Jones.
• Illustration Friday: Every Friday a one word topic is posted for participants to illustrate. Fun!
• Done Daily Design Workout: This was for 2008 but this is a good place to go to for some ideas.

Are you going to challenge yourself to create something everyday? Have you done something like this before? If so, how successful were you in keeping up?

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Your Album Cover #2

I thought I’d give this exercise another try!

Once again, here are the instructions:

You’re making an album cover for a band. All the info you need is as follows:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random: The name of the band is the article you land on.
2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3: The name of the album is the last four or five words of the last quote on the page.
3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days: The picture you must use is the third picture on the page.

Photo credit: C Ray Dancer

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Your Album Cover

I found this neat Photoshop practice from the CMD+Shift Design blog.

Here’s the brief:
You’re making an album cover for a band. All the info you need is as follows:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random:
   The name of the band is the article you land on.
2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3:
   The name of the album is the last four or five words of the last quote on the page.
3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days:
   The picture you must use is the third picture on the page.

Sounds like fun, doesn’t it?

Photo Credit: Bidûni Ta’lîk