109 - Drawing Everyday with David Morales

the new podcast episode and the new sneakyart project

👋🏼 Hello, reader.

Today, some good reasons to draw everyday. And more about 30 Days of TinyPeople which begins next month!

🎙 Episode 37 with David Morales

Today’s conversation is about the many things you can gain from having a daily drawing practice. David Morales is an architect and sketcher famous for his linework style, and a daily drawing challenge he has maintained since 2018.

There’s something about daily practice that pushes us to find subjects of art in ordinary situations, in ordinary places, on ordinary days. Does this make the artist a magician who can create art out of nothing? Or are they simply better able to notice the art that exists in all of our lives, hidden in plain sight?

Follow David’s work on Instagram, and visit here for prints and workshops.

Listen on your choice of streaming service or pick one below:

Spotify | Apple | PocketCasts | Google | Web | Gaana

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Early in the conversation, David told me he started the daily drawing challenge on a bet. He had no idea how difficult it was going to be. We agreed that sometimes it is best to not know how difficult something is going to be.

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Other responsibilities of life make the daily habit difficult to sustain. David explains how he fits the sketch inside the frames of time and energy.

✍🏼 30 Days of TinyPeople

Last week, I announced a daily drawing project I will be undertaking starting next month!

I described the project and what I planned to do over the 30 day period. Sharing my plans in advance is part of an idea that makes a lot of sense to me - to learn in public. More about this later.

🙋🏻‍♀️ … Who are TinyPeople?

TinyPeople are impressions of lives snatched out of the ether of time and space. They are found at street corners, cafes, parks, on the beach and in the mountains. TinyPeople are everywhere. This means that even if you have never have visited Vancouver, it is possible you recognize some of them from your world.

what a page might look like

TinyPeople populate your entire world, just like you populate theirs.

This project is a meditation upon the word sonder.

🎁 The Journey with Free Readers

With free readers, I will share stories of TinyPeople everyday for the duration of the project:

🖋 30 daily drawings
💭 30 good ideas from the scene

(++ If you live in Vancouver, come say hi because every day I will also share where I am going to be the next day.)

🚀 The Journey with Insiders

With the people who support my work, I will share:

🎧 Audio commentaries ~twice a week. Like an audio-book of SneakyArt of Vancouver! If these episodes turn out well, I will also release them with the audience of the SneakyArt Podcast. Insiders will help decide how it should sound!
🎁 Original art giveaways every week. Every week I make at least one drawing for Insiders!
🚀 Front-row seat on my journey to figure out self-publishing / crowd-funding for this book. This journey corresponds with conversations in Episodes 36-39 of the Podcast. After the 30 day period, I research different options to publish the book.

🎯 Personal Goals

On last week’s post, Satyajit had a great question!

After a deep think, here is what I want as a writer, artist, podcaster, and person:

✍🏼 I want to express SneakyArt with both drawings and words.
🖌 I want to get back in the wonderful habit of drawing everyday.
🎙 I want to try new podcast formats.
😊 I want to be in the city, and participate in my environment. More about this later.

🚀 And the larger goal,

I want to share SneakyArt with many more people, and have this publication support my work and life as an independent creator.

You can help me achieve this larger goal by sharing this post with someone you know that would enjoy this journey too.

To support SneakyArt, grab this one-time discount I am offering with today’s episode.

Thank you for your time and attention. See you next week!