I failed #The100DayProject and I'm okay with that

and why failing at something doesn't mean i'm a failure

I was so excited for the idea that I had for my 100 Day Project this year. I posted excitedly about it, I shared previews of what I’d be doing, I set up a separate Instagram account to share it, I came up with a schedule to keep up that meshed with my working schedule, I started out with a bang and was so into it…. and then on Day 52 I didn’t do my project, because I was tired that night, and was starting to come down with a cold.

the last page I did on April 14th

And then I continued not doing it. At first I wasn’t worried because I figured it would be easy to catch up. After all, I really loved my abstract watercolours!

I came up with plans like: “It’s only been a week, so I just need to do two a day for the next week and I’ll be all caught up.” Three weeks later I decided “Okay, I won’t try to catch up, I’ll just start back where I am and go for longer.

I even prepped my backgrounds, thinking I would just sit with my sketchbook, and bang out the mark-making in one session.

a couple of my prepped backgrounds

And here we are at the end of the project, and I never got started again.

I really loved my project, so what happened?