It’s been quite some time since I have exercised my creative artistic “juices”.  Now is the time to start again.  Yesterday I went out to buy myself a set of 24 artist Derwent pencils and some art paper with the hope that I could sit down and revisit my drawing and artistic side, much like I used to do during my early childhood.  Time is now precious and I don’t have the luxury to sit down for a couple of hours and draw (at least thats what I have been telling myself).

To solve this I propose a challenge to myself: “The One Hour Sketch”.  The rules are as follows:

I have one hour to:

1. Plan – come up with subject material or topic to draw
2. Create – once a topic is selected start drawing / sketching
3. Ship – once the hour is up down pencils and “ship”.  When I say ship I mean publish online (to this blog)

The beauty of this challenge is:

• I can’t give myself any excuses that I don’t have enough time to start, all I need is an hour.
• It helps to rapidly see what I want to draw and get it down on paper but it also forces me to produce sometime (anything!)  (I’m procrastinator at heart so if the conditions aren’t right or if it can’t be perfect I don’t start – with this challenge these worries must be ignored – have no fear!)
• It forces me to ship something and get it out there.

The debut sketch is of the Schwanstein Castle in Bavaria, Germany.  (My Wife has always wanted to visit so this helped with the inspiration selection)

I hope to upload more “One Hour Sketches” in the months to come!