Considering the format of daily sketches

2025-09-03-06

The iPad is comfortable to draw on in landscape mode, so for the past few months, I've been drawing my daily moments as monthly calendars.

Before then, I used to draw a dozen daily sketches on one page.

And long before that, daily index cards.

Some people draw fancier sketches. These ones are ArneBab's.

• How he started in Aug 2022
• Latest one: Aug 2025

Tanny McGregor has a colourful calendar. (5 minutes a day? Hmm...)

• but this is from 2020

Here's Winnie Lim. This one's Jan 2025.

Maybe I'll try putting more time into it. Just doodle. It's okay to slow down.

What do I want from my sketches?

• Moments I might not have photos of: sketches don't have to be photorealistic, although it might be good to get a better sense of what we feel like, and then what we look like
• Playfully stretching my skills
  • details
  • shading
  • colour
• Maybe I can try Procreate? Easy layers, colour fill.
• Stick with Noteful for now - nice to work with notebooks