The Smiley Face Project is a long-form drawing practice developed over a two-year period.
The project consists of daily drawings created in sketchbooks using ink and marker, guided by a simple recurring format and a fixed set of constraints. One drawing was made every day, without skipping, forming a continuous visual record of time, repetition, and attention.
What began as a small daily ritual gradually became an archive. Over 730 drawings accumulated across multiple sketchbooks, documenting not just variations of a single image, but the act of showing up consistently to a creative practice.
Rather than presenting finished illustrations or isolated works, the project is built around sequence. Each drawing is part of a larger rhythm, where meaning emerges through repetition, accumulation, and subtle change over time.
The Smiley Face Project is less about producing individual pieces and more about honoring process. It explores discipline, endurance, and the idea that simple actions, repeated daily, can become a meaningful body of work.
The project is presented here as a single archive, including both Season One (2024) and Season Two (2025), and exists as both a physical record and a long-form studio practice.
