One of the many online art challenges that you can participate in is Everyday in May (EDiM). There is a facebook and a Flickr group. You need to create a free account for either to join the group. Flickr is a photo-sharing site. Or you could just do the list for fun.
What is it? A list of prompts for everyday drawing challenges. There is no pressure, you put your sketch up online in the group and can comment on others, It is amazing the interpretation and different sketches of the one listed object. Here is the 2020 list. I couldn’t figure out how to add as a pdf document
1 a mug
2 a lamp, ceiling light or torch …
3 a favourite place – sofa, chair …
4 “Star Wars” – May the fourth be with you!
or
a brush; any brush – toothbrush, hairbrush …
5 a pc, printer etc.
6 a self-portrait – use a mirror or a reflective surface
7 a cooking pot, tea or coffee pot
8 a favourite drawing tool
9 a wall clock or your alarm clock
10 your pet or an animal of your choice if you haven’t one
11 illustrate a recipe
12 a game you love to play
13 toilet paper rolls – oh yes! 🙂
14 something with folds
15 a view from your window
16 a wire whisk or kitchen appliance
17 a tea bag or coffee beans
18 your breakfast
19 a pillow
20 shoes or some clothes
21 fruits
22 a book, a newspaper or a magazine
23 a water glass or a jug
24 where you would want to be now – using Google Street View
25 “Towel Day” – a tribute to Douglas Adams – www.towelday.org
or
cutlery
26 a pasta dish
27 keys
28 a water-tap
29 vegetables or whatever is in your fridge
30 a home plant
31 a phone – a new one, an old fashioned one, mobile or not
I think that the Everyday in May challenges began in 2005 by Karen Winters. Below are the links to my past EDiM. Here is a description I found on one of my 2009 posts. “This is part of the Everyday in May challenge – drawing something every day in May. A group of us thought it would be fun to do a Everyday Matters (EDM) challenge each day using EDM 1-31. The list is on Karen Winters website”
I started eagerly wanting to draw all the time. It was such an inspiration and opened my eyes to that fact that anything is sketchable and that everyone has a different style and approach. There is no right or wrong ! These are concepts that i strongly believe in today. Today, I have many art projects that am involved in and keeping me busy everyday (as well as a full-time non-art job) and I am doing EDiM out of nostalgia. Here are my previous EDiM challenges.
I also do this because my mother does it too. She lives interstate and is not on Facebook, but has a Flickr page. This is a wonderful way for us to connect and we have chat about what we have drawn. This is one time of the year that she picks up a pencil and draws, and then realises she is quite good, especially when practicing everyday.
follow mum’s EDiM drawings here and all of my drawings here
I “met” so many people through Everyday in May the early days of Flickr, as we all commented on each other’s drawings.
Has anyone else done it and how long ago. What online name do I know you as on Flickr and Facebook?