I know myself, if I do not finish a drawing in one sitting or one day, there is a 1% chance I will ever get back to it. I’ve tried to get back to drawings I feel had great potential, but it just never works. As soon as I stand up from my desk I either forget my train of thought, become excited to draw something completely different, or lose my motivation altogether. Because of this I would try to set aside chunks of time to draw. Chunks of say.. 3 to 6 hours. Yes, I know, that never happened either. Maybe once every couple of months I would get myself to sit down and enjoy an uninterrupted morning/afternoon of drawing. And relaxing. After all this was on my free time!
However, there were times where I was in the mood to draw but I only had a couple of minutes. I’d make a rough sketch. I noticed that the more careless and unexpecting I was, the more I liked the final result. Strange. I waved away this thought as much as I could. Disregarded it, told myself it wasn’t true. Until one day my rational, conscious thoughts took over. They told me: Just draw this as if you do not expect a nice final result, then it will turn out just the way you want. Of course, the thought itself made me put more effort into that particular drawing, making me more careful. Needless to say, the result would be acceptable, but not as great as I knew it could be.
I am giong to try suppressing that thought to become looser and more spontaneous in my drawings, in a good way. Or better yet, practicing so much that my drawing will be good, regardless of what I am thinking.
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