Author: 1000 Drawings - Daejeon

It’s July and we’re officially halfway through the year. Most of us, in the northern hemisphere at least, find ourselves on vacation with a little bit of extra time to play and experiment. The prompts for July have been thought up by Terry Chun and much like their creator, they’re a little unconventional.

This month you get three sets of 10 words; an artist (style), a setting, and an object. You get to make a drawing of an object from the list, in a setting from the list, in the style of an artist from the list, or as you imagine they would’ve approached it. Mix and match as you like. Or just focus on one prompt at a time. You make the rules.

Suggestion: You could use it as an opportunity to learn from the masters by copying their style – figuring out how they painted/made something and the process they used. By closely examining the work of great artists, you train your eye to look for detail and process and in doing so gain a deeper appreciation for their skill.

More about Terry

Terry Chun is a Korean American creative living in Daejeon. Currently, his works deal with paint as a medium. Working between enamels and acrylics. He hopes to find ways of combining the techniques and influences of artists he finds on YouTube. As well as ideas he identifies locally and in nature.

We’ve learned from experience that making a drawing every single day is a great challenge but can also become quite stressful. It is up to you how you tackle this challenge. If you are feeling ambitious, challenge yourself to make a drawing a day. If you’d like to spend more time with one prompt that is completely fine too. It’s 100% up to you.

Use the daily drawing challenge to:

• Develop a skill or a technique you are interested in
• Play with new techniques
• Unwind and focus on one thing at the end of the day
• Challenge yourself to do something consistently for a year
• Connect with other people who are joining the challenge

The prompts for June have been put together by members of the 1000 Drawings Club at Woosong University.

More about the 1000 Drawings Club:

The 1000 Drawings Club started in the spring of 2022 as an extracurricular club at Woosong University. A group of creative and enthusiastic students from SIMA (Media and Communication Arts), SICA (Culinary Arts), Human and Digital Interface (HADI), as well as Solbridge, come together every Tuesday evening to draw and hang out. Their combined talents have inspired an exhibition in November (along with students from other universities).

Do keep in mind that making a drawing a day can become quite overwhelming. It is up to you how you tackle this challenge. If you are feeling ambitious, challenge yourself to make a drawing a day. If you’d like to spend more time with one prompt that is completely fine too. It’s 100% up to you.

Use the daily drawing challenge to:

• Develop a skill or a technique you are interested in
• Play with new techniques
• Unwind and focus on one thing at the end of the day
• Challenge yourself to do something consistently for a year
• Connect with other people who are joining the challenge

May is here and the prompts are ready to inspire you. HaeRi Jeon has put together a list of prompts that will (hopefully) take you on an emotionally inspiring journey.

More about HaeRi:

HaeRi is working on acrylic paintings about episodes in her life and the people around her. She depicts herself and the characters in her life as different animal characters. She just started her artistic career recently. She is also an events planner for various art and cultural projects.

It was the 2020 COVID time when she really started to explore her art. She was on what started as a working holiday in Australia but turned into a working lockdown. HaeRi was having a very hard time – overloaded with very physically intense work and being away from Korea during a pandemic. Drawing with oil pastels in her spare time gave her the peace of mind she desperately craved.

She tried many different paintings such as the cityscapes and abstract paintings, but they weren’t her thing. She is a self-taught artist who didn’t receive a formal art education. Her work focuses on highlights from her daily routine, beautiful memories from living away from home, memories with her beloved, and emotions for people around her. She started to express her ‘comparatively not important private stories’ on paper with a dash of her unique humor.

Seeing the audience chattering about the paintings as if viewing the biographical record of a storyteller who has traveled the world collecting interesting experiences, gives her great joy. She truly enjoys seeing people feeling happy and interested while looking at her paintings.

Her dream is to be a professional artist a few years from now. She is working at the agency while planning and carrying out some art and cultural project with other local artists. Watch this space!

해리는 이제 막 그림을 그리기 시작한 새내기 아티스트이자 기획자이다.

현재는 본인과 주변인과의 에피소드를 다양한 동물 캐릭터로 담아 아크릴로 표현하는 작업을 하고 있음.

그녀가 예술활동을 하게 된 계기는 20년도 코로나로 인한 새로운 취미생활의 시작부터이다.

당시 호주에서 워킹홀리데이를 하며 고된 육체 노동으로 피곤하고 무서운 삶을 살고 있었다. 여가시간에 오일파스텔로 그림을 그리며 조금씩 마음의 안정을 찾아갔다. 도시풍경도 그려보고, 추상화도 시도해봤지만 예술교육을 받은 적 없는 그녀에게 가장 적합한 주제는 그녀의 하루 일과의 하이라이트, 타향살이의 아름다운 추억, 사랑하는 사람들과의 추억, 주변인에 대한 감정에 관한 것들이었다.

새삼 중요치 않은 개인적인 이야기들을 종이 위에 표현해나기 시작했다. 용맹한 호랑이의 모습으로 저만의 유머를 섞어서. 전시를 찾은 사람들에게는 저잣거리의 전기수처럼 그림에 대해 수다를 떨어본다. 람들이 본인의 작품을 보고 재밌어 하는 것이 너무 즐겁다고 한다.

앞으로 수년 이후 프로페셔널한 아티스트가 되는 것이 꿈이라고한다. 현재는 기획사에 근무하며 지역의 예술가들을 위한 다양한 문화예술 콘텐츠를 기획하고 실행하는 일을 하고 있다.

@brillahaeri

HaeRi’s blog

Do keep in mind that making a drawing a day can become quite overwhelming. It is up to you how you tackle this challenge. If you are feeling ambitious, challenge yourself to make a drawing a day. If you’d like to spend more time with one prompt that is completely fine too. It’s 100% up to you.

Use the daily drawing challenge to:

• Develop a skill or a technique you are interested in
• Play with new techniques
• Unwind and focus on one thing at the end of the day
• Challenge yourself to do something consistently for a year
• Connect with other people who are joining the challenge

The prompts for April are very special. They have been prepared by Tae-E (5) and Sun-Oo (6). We hope that their fantastic prompts will inspire you to look at the world from the perspective of your inner child.🧜‍♀️🧚‍♀️👑🦄🌈🧁

Here are some samples of the wonderful drawings donated to us by Tae-E and Sun-Oo.

Do keep in mind that making a drawing a day can become quite challenging. It is up to you how you tackle this challenge. If you are feeling ambitious, challenge yourself to make a drawing a day. If you’d like to spend more time with one prompt that is completely fine too. It’s 100% up to you.

* Feel free to replace words like “brother”, “mom”, or “dad” with people who evoke those feeling for YOU.

Use the daily drawing challenge to:

• Develop a skill or a technique you are interested in
• Play with new techniques
• Unwind and focus on one thing at the end of the day
• Challenge yourself to do something consistently for a year
• Connect with other people who are joining the challenge

We’d like to introduce you to Paul Shin, our prompt creator for March.

Paul was born and raised in Gwangyang on the southern coast of Korea. After a brief period at medical school in Seoul, he decided to take a leap of faith and move to the US, where he lived, studied, and worked for six years between New York and Los Angeles.

From his early 20s, Paul has been interested in the healing power of creative and artistic expression. Having personally experienced both the physical and mental benefits of writing, movement, and painting, he has turned this perspective into a life path. Paul currently runs his own practice in Daejeon, Olive Art Therapy Center, where he helps clients, on an individual and group basis, explore and grow by engaging in meaningful and expressive communication.

Paul and his husband are active members of the Daejeon LGBT community and together run an inclusive bar in Mannyeon dong, Bonfire. He is also soon-to-be-certified as an instructor in Animal Flow, a physical movement style with similarities to yoga, capoeira and callisthenics.

His experiences as both an outsider living in a different country, and also native to a country in which he is marginalised, have shown Paul the importance and validity of authentic and reflective personal expression. While this may seem like something easily achieved, he has found through his work that it is something that requires deliberation and intention.   

“Prompts are a really great way to explore your own inner world. From there you may discover something new that you didn’t know about yourself or something from your past, long forgotten, and be able to experience it from a new perspective.  The act of drawing itself is also helpful to release and process your stored energy in a safe and creative manner. Also, and most importantly, it’s fun! I hope these words will lead you down some interesting paths that may ultimately guide you home…” – Paul Shin

Use the daily drawing challenge to:

• Develop a skill or a technique you are interested in
• Play with new techniques
• Unwind and focus on one thing at the end of the day
• Challenge yourself to do something consistently for a year
• Connect with other people who are joining the challenge

Are you ready to start the new year? Would you like a creative challenge?

1000 Drawings – Daejeon is hosting a daily drawing challenge in which we invite someone from our community to come up with a prompt for each day of the month.

The prompts for January were prepared by Kim Haesook, an artist and a valuable member of the 1000 Drawings – Daejeon team. Heasook’s current work is titled City Mirror; About Looking. Her work challenges the viewer to look at the world around them more deeply. Her prompts will definitely get you out of your comfort zone. Are you up for the challenge?

More about Kim Haesook and her work:

Haesook Kim is a papercut artist from Daejeon. Her work transforms two-dimensional planes of paper into three-dimensional landscapes of possibility. She is currently working on the theme of ‘City Mirror,’ which uses images of buildings or buildings reflected in glass.

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Keep in mind that one drawing a day can become quite challenging.

It is up to you how you tackle this challenge. If you are feeling ambitious, challenge yourself to make a drawing a day. If you’d like to spend more time with one prompt that is completely fine too. It’s 100% up to you.

Use the daily drawing challenge to:

• Develop a skill or a technique you are interested in
• Play with new techniques
• Unwind and focus on one thing at the end of the day
• Challenge yourself to do something consistently for a year
• Connect with other people who are joining the challenge