When you make your drawing series public (by announcing it on Instagram or Facebook, for example) you’ve declared your intentions to the whole world. You’ve made it public and held yourself accountable You’ll have a set of limitations to work within and a direction to follow. These guidelines help to jumpstart new ideas by narrowing down the options, rather than sitting down to a blank page with limitless possibilities.Ģ. Now when you sit down to draw, you won’t be as confused or overwhelmed about what to draw. So why does committing publicly to drawing series work? Why not just draw something different each day? Why not keep your drawing series secret? This concept works for three reasons: Some went somewhere interesting, some didn’t. That’s almost half the year, right there! All because of a bunch of random drawing series I decided to commit to and see where they went. In total, these 12 series produced 185 total drawings. It got you drawing that day and that’s what counts. We want to enjoy the process of drawing, so don’t keep drawing a series if you start to hate it. But that doesn’t mean that series was a waste of time! It was still worth it to start the series, even if you only did it a couple times. Others, I started with high energy, but soon the excitement wore off and I lost interest and got bored. I stuck with some of these series from beginning to end, like my travel journals and Inktober. #inktober2017 // #mightcoulddrawclothes : 30 drawings.Here are the drawing projects I committed to publicly last year:
Some were personal series I started myself, like my travel journals, and some were drawing challenges started by other artists and joined in by thousands of other creatives. I started or participated in a total of 12 drawing series last year.
This came in many forms for me, but most often was some sort of drawing challenge or theme on Instagram. Here’s my secret weapon to combating this problem: committing publicly to drawing projects and series. They sit down with the intention of drawing, but they open up their sketchbook and the blank page just stares at them. The most common thing I hear from people who don’t draw consistently is that they just don’t know what to draw each day.
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We’ll start out strong for sure, full of ideas and brimming with motivation. And that’s when I discovered the one thing that helped me draw *almost* every day last year.ĭrawing *almost* every day for a year is a long time. Now at the start of this fresh new year, I’m reflecting back, trying to figure out why I was more successful in 2017 than 2016. But here’s the important part: that failed resolution led me to draw more than I ever have before. I succeeded in the long run by improving my creative life and growing my artistic practice. Fine, whatever, another New Year’s resolution in the graveyard. So yeah, if you wanna get all technical and nitpicky, I didn’t achieve my goal. That’s more sketchbooks than I’ve ever filled up before! I tried out new tools and mediums, and evolved my artistic style into something that feels even more like me than before, even when I thought I had already figured it out! I believe it was a huge success. I drew 355 days! That’s more than I’ve ever drawn in a single year. Another hopeless year, another waste, right?Īctually, I believe my 2017 resolution was far from a failure. I didn’t draw every day of 2017. There were about 10 days I didn’t draw, so I drew somewhere around 355 days last year. It’s now the beginning of 2018, and *spoiler alert* I didn’t fulfill that resolution. This is the year I will draw every single day.” Last year, on the bright, shining morning of January 1, waking up in a comfy, warm bed in the North Carolina mountains, with the renewed sense of power and hope that comes on New Year’s Day, I declared my resolution for 2017: “THIS is the year.
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