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1,000 days of drawing
What happened when I drew one thing every day for a thousand days, and why I have no plans to stop.
The first hundred drawings were bad. The next hundred were bad in more interesting ways. Somewhere around day 400, the drawings started to sound like me.
What I learned
The streak is not about discipline. It is about lowering the bar until showing up is easy, then showing up.
Written by Juno Pell
Product designer and illustrator in Leith. Replies to every letter, eventually with a sketch.
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