Okay, so it’s not actually every day, but doodling on sticky notes has allowed me to draw more frequently than I have been. I saw a YouTube video on this, and I really liked the idea. It keeps drawings from being too precious, so I worry less about mistakes. It also keeps drawings small, thus limiting the amount of time I have to spend on them. I tend to be an all-or-nothing sort of person, which means I want to fill the page. Big sketchbook pages leave me feeling lost. I don’t have anything I want to draw that’s that big. A sticky note, though? I can handle that. And sticky notes can be combined to create a larger drawing later on, I’m thinking. It’s a good place to work out ideas, play around, and in general just complete a doodle in the amount of free time I actually have.
I just started doing this last week. Here are a couple I’ve done so far.
Believe it or not, the paper for these notes are all the same color. But they keep showing up as different shades of yellow or green depending on when and where I take the photo. That’s ambient lighting for you! But because these are sticky notes, I’m not worried about correct color. I just want to be able to draw. The finished doodles are being stuck in a sketchbook my daughters gave me for Christmas one year. It’s a lovely sketchbook with nice BIG pages in it. And I’m going to fill up those pages one tiny drawing at a time. Huzzah!