attendance cards

Spent the morning on side projects – more detailed post coming in a bit – and, among them, started Lynda Barry's MAKING COMICS – which has already given me a new thing – her Attendance Card exercise - for this space:

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)

Lynda Barry https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/making-comics/

This first one took a bit of liberty with her rules (this took longer than four minutes and I cocked up the date/name order), but the next ones will follow those rules, more or less (will use a timer instead of a song because that would be another choice I have to make and I have a thousand 3x5 index cards from an earlier consideration instead of the class-required 4x6s that I need to use). Prompts, not sure. Handdrawn status updates. Will do these at the start of the work day and publish without text or title beyond my zk dating; any text pieces will be written throughout the day.

Who knows if this will become a regular thing or if this is just a passing enthusiasm - but it's, so far, a wonderful alternative to more writing to get the brain in a writing mode for the day's work. All Attendance Card comics can be found, eventually, in the Attendance Card tag.