attendance cards
My own variation* on the daily exercise in Lynda Barry’s MAKING COMICS which I now publish every morning at the start of each workday (+/-0530):
We begin each class by drawing a self portrait in response to a prompt. We draw for the length of a song I've chosen, about 3-4 minutes. I ask that you draw without stopping for the entire length of the song and include your face and entire body." (p42)
Behold, the fruits of my daily four-minute labors:
(Earlier Attendance Cards can be found via the main Notebook tag. Feast thine eyes.)
*My variation being that, instead of Barry’s instructions to draw them vertically on 4x6 index cards to the duration of a song, I draw them horizontally on 3x5s – I have over a thousand needing to be used and my own design aesthetic for this space demands that they be horizontally-oriented – to the tune of a 4’33” timer.