Yes, I agree that accountability for doing at least one lesson or practice session a day really helps.
"no, I'll just do a single word, a single line or paragraph, because any progress is better than no progress at all" and, like magic, I survive the slump and get the work done.
That’s a powerful method! At the beginning of this year, I did something similar, trying to get out of a period in which I didn’t draw much by forcing myself to draw for at least five minutes a day. Sometimes, it set me up, and I got into a flow state, creating something fun, and other times, when I didn’t feel like it, I did a five-minute pose on the website Line of Action (https://line-of-action.com/). So then it was still a very short practice session. Nowadays, I don’t do the 5-minute drawing session anymore, but it’s because, thanks to it, I got into the practice again. I draw almost every day now.
¡Gracias! Tengo mucho que aprender, pero me gusta el idioma. A veces intento leer fanfics en español :). Leer y comprender es mucho más fácil que hablar o escribir.
It’s cool that you can understand and speak Spanish thanks to knowing a similar language. I have that sometimes with German. I only have a very basic knowledge of it, but because it’s so similar to Dutch, I can sometimes understand things :)
Thank you. Perfectionism is definitely part of it. I also sometimes am very unsure about my work and its quality, and then I stick too much to reference pics, for instance. I have difficulty drawing something from inspiration, and I used to be able to do that in my youth. I think I should dedicate a sketchbook to practising it and accept that the quality will maybe not be good for the first month or so. But perhaps that will give me some confidence if I stick to it.
These writing challenges seem fun! Good that it helped you become more relaxed with writing. I’ve seen there is something that appears similar, but then for drawing, drawesome
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That’s a powerful method! At the beginning of this year, I did something similar, trying to get out of a period in which I didn’t draw much by forcing myself to draw for at least five minutes a day. Sometimes, it set me up, and I got into a flow state, creating something fun, and other times, when I didn’t feel like it, I did a five-minute pose on the website Line of Action (https://line-of-action.com/). So then it was still a very short practice session. Nowadays, I don’t do the 5-minute drawing session anymore, but it’s because, thanks to it, I got into the practice again. I draw almost every day now.
¡Gracias! Tengo mucho que aprender, pero me gusta el idioma. A veces intento leer fanfics en español :). Leer y comprender es mucho más fácil que hablar o escribir.
It’s cool that you can understand and speak Spanish thanks to knowing a similar language. I have that sometimes with German. I only have a very basic knowledge of it, but because it’s so similar to Dutch, I can sometimes understand things :)
Thank you. Perfectionism is definitely part of it. I also sometimes am very unsure about my work and its quality, and then I stick too much to reference pics, for instance. I have difficulty drawing something from inspiration, and I used to be able to do that in my youth. I think I should dedicate a sketchbook to practising it and accept that the quality will maybe not be good for the first month or so. But perhaps that will give me some confidence if I stick to it.
These writing challenges seem fun! Good that it helped you become more relaxed with writing. I’ve seen there is something that appears similar, but then for drawing,