As part of #The100DayProject, I’m doing #100ThingsNoOneToldMe as daily drawings. Tell me something you had to learn on your own, and I’ll add it to my list. 53. Art belongs to everyone. “The guardians of high culture will try to convince you that the arts belong only to a chosen few, but they are wrong and they are also annoying.” Are you familiar with the Lascaux Caves? Lascaux is famous for its Palaeolithic cave paintings, found in a complex of caves in the Dordogne region of southwestern France, because of their exceptional quality, size, sophistication and antiquity. Estimated to be up to 20,000 years old, the paintings consist primarily of large animals, once native to the region and many hand stencils. These hand stencils remind us of how different life was in the distant past—amputations, likely from frost bite, are common in Europe, and so you often see negative hand stencils with three or four fingers. And life was short and difficult. As many as a quarter of women died in childbirth; around fifty percent of children died before the age of five. But they also remind us that the humans of the past were as human as we are. Their hands indistinguishable from ours. These communities hunted and gathered, and there were no large caloric surpluses, so every healthy person would have had to contribute to the acquisition of food and water—and yet somehow, they still made time to create art—almost as if art isn’t optional for humans. So if you feel like making art, of any kind—do it. And if you think it’s not good enough, or you’re not qualified, or no one will understand—keep doing it. #the100dayproject2018 #dailydrawing #painteveryday #draweveryday #watercolor #illustration #illustrator #painting #procreate #dailydoodle #illustrate #drawingoftheday #drawsomething #artjournal #digitalart #artistsoninstagram #illustratorsoninstagram #illustrationoftheday #illustrationdaily #instaillustration #illustrationhowl #illustrateddoris #socfeature #picame #theillustrationroom #editorialillustration #editorialillustrator #illustratorsofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/BoMe8PFFACp/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5qf6n8ojyi13