This year I decided to be a little kinder to myself: I will complete the 100 days of sketching but not in a harried way. I will take my time and work on "a day" when I'm really free and able to. Yes, it's kind of a cheat version of the challenge. But the goal here is to reach the number (i.e. 100) and to push myself in a gentle way. I'm impressed with how others do it regularly and on a daily basis. Good for them. I can't keep up at this point in my life though. So I'll just try to work on a spread or a page every way I can and enjoy the process.
So here goes Day 1: Inky Sunflowers
I knew I wanted to work with my dip pen and fountain pens but was clueless as to what subject to render. Then I spotted this scuffed and slightly aged gift tag lying in one of my plastic trays. Oh, it was the very first tag that I got from my husband when we were still dating. He got me a sunflower then and he wrote something cheesy on that tag. Our wedding also had the sunflower theme and my wedding bouquet was a simple but awesome arrangement of sunflowers. So I thought to draw my own version of a sunflower wedding bouquet for Day 1 of my 100 Day Project for 2017.
I used a Diamine sepia drawing ink with my J. Herbin dip pen. The flowers and leaves were outlined with Platinum Preppy fountains pens, and the rest of the drawing was inked and colored with Inktense pencils. Indeed, this one's an inky sunflower!
