I have decided that February is NaNoIllMo, or National Novel Illustration Month, where the goal is to draw 50 illustrations for a literary project, in a single month.
I don't know if anyone has thought of or done anything like this before, but here goes.
I might be the only one doing it because I just made it up myself and I haven't spread awareness or made it official or anything. But I still think its a good idea.
The saying is that a picture is worth a thousand words. So with that exchange rate 50 illustrations would be equivalent to the 50,000 words of NaNoWriMo. Or, to put it another way, a word is worth 0.001 pictures and 50,000 words, has the same value as 50 pictures.
Having the event in February has a nice symmetry to it too, as November is the second month from the end of the year and February is the second from the beginning.
The literary project chosen for the contest could be your NaNoWriMo novel, a different novel, a children's book, a comic book, or anything. Or you could begin with the illustrations and write a story around them later.
If this generates sufficient interest, I would be happy to do a kickstarter and start an official website and all of that.
I don't know about anyone else but I, for one, need a kick in the seat of the pants to actually do some drawing instead of sitting around with a pencil in my hand and a blank sheet of paper in front of me, and only thinking the illustrations in my head.
Cheers,
JP
