This is the personal website for Leigh Elliott. Please see LinkedIn profile on contact page for professional details/history.
The idea behind the “One Hour Sketch”
In an effort to exercise my creative artistic “juices” I’ve created the idea of the “One Hour Sketch”. I went out and bought 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 (growing up I attended a number of art schools (Ruth Tuck and David Taylor) but over time life became “busy”. 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:
Plan – come up with subject material or topic to draw
Create – once a topic is selected start drawing / sketching
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 a 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.
For quite some time I’ve been a follower of both Seth Godin and Dan Pink, both who have in some part motivated me to start “One Hour Sketch”, Seth for the idea of “Shipping”, ideas continue to remain trapped in my mind, instead stop “thinking” and ship! This is what I hope to achieve with this website. Dan, who talks about the creative side in his book A Whole New Mind extols the benefits of the creative side, and how this creativity will become the differentiating factor in the modern world.
Most importantly I hope to find some enjoyment from creating. In a busy, pressure filled life finding (making) time for old long overdue pastimes is important.
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This is the personal website for Leigh Elliott. Please see LinkedIn profile on contact page for professional details/history.
The idea behind the “One Hour Sketch”
In an effort to exercise my creative artistic “juices” I’ve created the idea of the “One Hour Sketch”. I went out and bought 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 (growing up I attended a number of art schools (Ruth Tuck and David Taylor) but over time life became “busy”. 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:
The beauty of this challenge is:
For quite some time I’ve been a follower of both Seth Godin and Dan Pink, both who have in some part motivated me to start “One Hour Sketch”, Seth for the idea of “Shipping”, ideas continue to remain trapped in my mind, instead stop “thinking” and ship! This is what I hope to achieve with this website. Dan, who talks about the creative side in his book A Whole New Mind extols the benefits of the creative side, and how this creativity will become the differentiating factor in the modern world.
Most importantly I hope to find some enjoyment from creating. In a busy, pressure filled life finding (making) time for old long overdue pastimes is important.
Leigh.
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