Pep-talk For Your Creative Habit

Welcome to Draw Tip Tuesday!

With the new year coming up, there might be all kinds of plans and good resolutions, but I don't want to talk about that.
What I do want to focus on today, is creativity and taking the time for it.
I have developed the habit to draw daily. It makes me happy and that's enough motivation for me to make time for it. But I know that's not that easy for everyone.

You may have good intentions to draw every day, but you have to do the work. Make it happen. Take the responsibility, instead of blaming circumstances.
Try finding your small gaps of time to keep the flow of creativity part of your life. Even a five minute doodle is better than no drawing at all. Allow yourself to have that fun and feel better for it!

Go back to an old sketchbook and leaf through it. It can be encouraging to see how you've developed as an artist. You'll see how you've developed your skills, choice of subjects, storytelling and perhaps creative courage too. It's because you put the work in.

Let go of perfection. Step out of that comfort zone and go for it. You need to follow new paths to learn and grow. It doesn't matter what the result is. You're drawing, and that what it's about. You need to make drawings with wonky perspectives to learn and do it a little bit better next time. After all: what can really go wrong? Your life doesn’t depend on it. It’s just pen and paper.
Even a bad drawing is better than no drawing at all. 

Do it! Drawing makes you happy, so don't skip it. Treat yourself to that time for you and your sketchbook!

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