This post started out as a long ramble about how my [hopefully temporary] malaise got the better of me and I gave up on my silly worksheets and sketchbook project. And, as sometime happens, my long ramble brought me around to a solution to my artistic mental block.
In fact, the long ramble stopped the moment I realised that I was comparing myself and my desire to draw similar things over and over again to Van Gogh and his sunflowers.
At that point, I decided to stop writing about how my depressed mood was preventing me from completing structured creative work and instead picked up my markers and got busy doing what I enjoy: Drawing swirls.
So, OK, the structured creative work still needs to be completed because I have to finish what I started. But since I started it as an outlet for my grief/depression/sadness/whatever, and it is now adding stress to my life because I feel bad for not working on it, I’ve decided to stop and take a break.
Which means that you can bet I’ll be doing a lot of doodle drawings but less assigned drawing—but that’s OK because it makes me happy.
And I’m sharing tonight’s ‘work in progress’ with you now. Yay!
Love it – so colourful and full of expression!
I feel the same sometimes – I start to put pressure on myself with things I normally enjoy, and then end up not even wanting to think about doing them, blegh! But well done for picking up the markers!
Well done, you!
xx
This has made me realize that I really, really do like drawing swirls. Sadly, I’ve messed up this one, but will still finish it with a hope of turning it around. I’ve also decided recently that I like working with markers so maybe I’ll buy some nice markers and special marker paper when I’m out and about next. (If they’re not too expensive because I have to pinch my pennies for Scotland!)