Hourly Comics Day 2022!

Hey y’all! 

So this past Tuesday was Hourly Comics Day! The big yearly event for cartoonists and illustrators when we document our daily lives by drawing a comic for every hour we’ve been awake. Sounds easy right?

Well… it can be very challenging for those with busy schedules, but it can feel incredibly awesome when you’re done!

Usually I feel a lot of pressure into finishing monthly art challenges on social media, but since I’ve been doing hourly comics day for years, it just feels easier when I remember to let loose and have fun with it!

Here are my hourlies for this year!:

If you’ve never done hourlies and would like to try it (hey, you can do it anytime during the year), here are some tips that can help with the process:

1) If you want to stick to your schedule, it might best easier using tools you know. If you’re trying out new mediums (like watercolors, gouache, mixed media, etc.), it might take you longer to finish than anticipated. But if time crunch isn’t a priority for you, then heck yeah, experiment away!~

2) If you’re on a busy schedule, it’s totally okay to write down what you did that hour and draw it out later! Everyone has a different approach to making hourlies, so do what works best for you~

3) It may help to make your panels beforehand! Either by drawing it out or printing it out.  

4) You don’t have to make super elaborate comics! You can totally do one panel per hour or group hours together to simplify what you’ve done. Heck, you can even draw one big illustration of a room/office and divide each portion of it and draw what you did each hour. 

5) And most importantly…have fun with it!!! Give yourself a reason to do fun things that day, hang out with friends, go to a museum, etc.  

Anyway, hope this has been helpful to you! Go make comics :P