bluandorange:

Random art advice;

• draw what makes you happy
• work with your anxiety not against it
• if working in a sketchbook makes you anxious, draw on printer paper or index cards
• that way if that shit starts pissing you off you can literally toss it across the room
• if one medium is giving you trouble try another
• take a break from digital to work traditionally or vice versa 
• draw from reference
• trace over reference with the intention of internalizing shapes 
• take what you love about other’s work and incorporate it into your own
• if you need to work but are having trouble focusing, set a repeating timer
• dick around for ten minutes and then work for ten minutes
• if the timer goes off and you still feel like working, keep working
• be kind to yourself
• draw when you can as much as you can
• do NOT beat yourself up for not being able to work
• working in pen or marker can help you overcome fear of permanent mistakes
• it can also help you work quicker and looser
• do your undersketch in blue pen/marker and go over it in black
• make corrections with whiteout or white gel pen
• when you want to draw but don’t know what to work on, start by drawing circles or other shapes
• fill a page with nonsense doodles
• warm up your wrists
• do the bean exercise
• just fill a page with beans
• draw what makes you happy