I’ve been thinking about ways to both motivate myself and push my creativity lately. In the past when I’ve committed to doing a sketch daily, I’ve varied in what my expectations were. What I’ve learned at this point is that outside of the parameter of creating something, I do best when I treat everything else as suggestions that are available to help me if I want them.

The idea I’m working with currently is when I want to, I can have different focal points throughout the week to keep myself practiced in different ways.

Suggested ideas so far are:

draw an animal (try something you haven’t done before!)
draw something you see in front of you
draw a portrait from photo reference (or of someone in front of you)
make something colorful
make something abstract
draw a background/landscape/scenery
draw flowers from reference
make a page of thumbnails for brainstorming bigger drawings/paintings
draw from your head (the default)

I’ve been setting up a couple secondary blogs and will be adding them to my navigation bar up top as I start using them (one will be for sketches and works in progress and the other will be a personal trance and meditation journal).

I’m not actually sure when I’ll start rolling with creating art every day (life will be chaotic the next handful of weeks as we pack and prepare to move) but I’m going to do what I can as I’m able for now.

I also have to think about the overlap between posting sketches and work here and on my patreon but that will sort itself out in time.

Thoughts. Lots of things.