Most of us accept the fact that we have to practice in order to draw well. But it’s easy to get distracted. Many things vie to steal your attention: maybe it’s schoolwork, or friction at the office, or food poisoning. Mere excuses! So what can you do to stay motivated?

Some people advise taking a stroll along the beach, clearing your mind, and centering yourself. Yeah, sure. If that worked, the beach would be teeming with art students and writers, who remain notoriously pasty-skinned. By the time you finished applying the sun block, and picking the sand out of your chicken sandwich, you wouldn’t have a creative thought left in your head. Det du ikke vil bruke med PayPal kan du enkelt og greit overføre til kort som er forbundet med din PayPal-konto casino fordeler med paypal.

No my friend, tranquility and yoga are not the answer. The answer is to multitask: do two things at once. In other words, practice drawing while you (fill in the blank). Let me explain. At night, when you’re watching TV, sketch during the commercials. I’m serious. That may sound funny because it doesn’t even seem like real practice. Ah, but that’s the point. All practice is good, and propels you forward. But be careful, the funnier the show, the less you’re likely to draw. This gives you plenty of  time to sketch, especially if you draw during the warning announcement for the commercial about arthritis pain medicine. The point is that this approach takes the sting out of practice اراب فاينانشيال.

While there are periods where focused concentration is essential to make gains, it is consistency that brings the most gains. Therefore, the take away for today’s blog is this:

“It’s better to draw more often, than to draw for greater lengths of time.”  

What are some other things you can do while you draw, so that drawing fits more easily into your schedule? Try these:

• While taking public transportation
• During a coffee or lunch break
• While traveling during a holiday when there may be bumper-to-bumper traffic (but, um, not if you’re the driver)
• When you’re out of town and staying at a hotel.
• At the beach, park or zoo – great places to fill up a sketchbook
• On vacation
• When you’re bored – instead of nibbling on last night’s Chinese food, which, by the way, you could do without.
• At any appointment where you’re likely to wait (such as a doctor’s office)
• When your wife forces you to go to a symphony.
• When your wife forces you to go to a ballet.
• When your wife forces you to go to a foreign film.

The list could go on, believe me. But even if you only fill 2 or 3 pages a week using this approach, that’s over 100 pages of sketching over the course of a year, which could greatly help you to hone your skills, as well as create some useful roughs for future works.

See You Soon,

Chris Hart
Your Cartooning Sherpa