2023

ABOUT TODAY

Second year of Daily drawings.
  • JANUARY
    Meet January: a month of a pencil and head in the clouds.
    Explore
  • FEBRUARY
    February 2023 started off rocky and emotionally intense into one of the most beautiful months I had back then. And drawings of February then became especially dear to my heart, as a piggy bank for my memories, that I constantly love revisiting.
    Explore
  • MARCH
    March — after the complexity of watercolor February, I stay simple: ink and a few lines. How to reduce your day to the essence, to show it with a few touches of your brush, and to put all your heart into it? March is then the answer.
    Explore
  • APRIL
    By April, I decided to try something new: collages. Already on my first day, I decided that to collages (or even simple cutouts) I wanted to still add drawings, a simple line, that would balance the existing detail.
    Explore
  • MAY
    May was exiting out of the blur: what can I find in this bright splash of colour? Is it a creature, a portrait, or another ladder leading all the way up to your imagination? May was calm, beautiful, and full of enjoyable studying, sunny weather (much sunnier than this year), poppy flowers, and just lovely.
    Explore
  • JUNE
    In June 2023 I told myself: wait a second, if I am dreaming about writing a graphical novel some day, how different are the daily drawings I am doing, and why not experiment with it now? So June became again watercolor — this time with text, practicing with the framing.
    Explore
  • JULY
    July 2023 — markers that I barely used for my art outside of architecture. Notes and experiments.
    Explore
  • AUGUST
    Little did I know how jumping over the trash bins to get into a house would affect my life for the upcoming year. Open for interpretation. Here is August.
    Explore
  • SEPTEMBER
    If drawings are separate entities that are inevitably put together at the end of a month, it is worth attempting experimenting - make days and weeks shuffle, create a bigger picture.
    Explore
  • OCTOBER
    October meant red ink - from subtle lines to bold toning, from separate drawings and frames to a red thread connecting the weeks, because daily drawings are rarely a separate story, and always a part of a bigger context.
    Explore
  • NOVEMBER
    All of a sudden, I see how many good things happened this November. I can just say that I am grateful for so much – and so few will fit in the pictures.
    Explore
  • DECEMBER
    Sunday of the year on a blue paper with white pen
    Explore
julydragan art on Instagram
Made on
Tilda