A Month of Daily Creative Coding: Notes from my Genuary 2023

I had such a great time with the 2023 Genuary creative coding challenge, earlier this year. The daily prompts helped me focus, and explore ideas visually. For me, the point of the challenge is to get my brain all fired up on new ideas and patterns…and to play.

Rather than doing the daily challenges in order, I skipped around the prompts as they inspired me. I also started ahead of January, the official month of Genuary. Some of the prompts took several days to get them working the way I wanted, and then I would iterate over a core idea from it with other prompts. Some prompts just didn’t inspire me. But others were so fun, they were hard to move on from. When I was having a lot of fun with one but needed to start on another prompt, I promised myself I’d come back to it later.

I do come back to some of them. Here are some prints that I created from pieces I started in last year’s challenge.

Prints of artwork created during #genuary 2022.

During January, I posted the finished pieces on the day of the prompt. But here, in this article, I thought it would be fun so share them in the order I tackled them. As I worked, I kept notes, so I could refer back to them later and recapture my thoughts when I was ready to revisit them.

In case you’re curious, for most of these pieces, I wrote my code in vanilla JavaScript and…