Hit 100 doodles in my sketchbook today, totally by accident

I started this sketchbook back in January just to have somewhere to dump random ideas during lunch breaks at work. Nothing serious, just little cartoons of my cat, weird faces I see on the train, and sometimes just scribbles that don't look like anything. I didn't even count them until last night when I flipped to the back cover and noticed I only had like 15 pages left. So I went through and counted every single drawing, even the stupid ones that took 20 seconds. Turns out I had exactly 100 doodles in there, which really surprised me because I thought I barely drew at all this year. It felt kind of nice to see all that progress just sitting there in one book, you know. Has anyone else ever done a count on their sketchbook pages and gotten a number that shocked them?

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the_robert13d ago

100 pages of cat cartoons doesn't really help you get better at drawing though.

emmawood13d ago

My coworker's kid filled a whole sketchbook with nothing but different types of clouds for a year straight. Cartoon cats are fine if they're actually making you pick up the pencil every day.

scott.miles13d ago

My nephew did basically the same thing for two years but with trees. Just pine trees, oak trees, weeping willows, every kind you could think of. He drew them in summer, winter, dead of night, whatever. The kid is 14 now and his landscapes look like photographs because he learned how light hits branches and leaves from every angle. Those 100 pages of cat cartoons would teach someone way more about anatomy and motion than sitting there doing nothing.