Facing a Fear—Drawing From Imagination

I've spent a lot of time learning—or trying to learn—drawing fundamentals so that I can accurately draw the ideas in my head.

As a result, I do almost no drawing from imagination.

But the more I see of other people's work, like that of Boulet, the more I want to apply whatever skills I presently have to doing more imaginative drawing. Also, I think doing these drawings will mitigate the drudgery of learning to draw (yes, learning to draw can be both fun and tedious.)

I have a tendency to think TOO big sometimes so I forced myself to come up with a simple way to do daily and regular imaginative drawings. I came up with three ways.

First, I will make all of my greeting cards this year. That means birthdays, Valentine's Day, anniversary and Christmas I will do handmade cards like this:

Second, any opportunity to do a quick drawing that expresses an idea I will do, like this reminder to my companion about preparing the challah bread for French toast:

Third, I'm committing to doing daily drawings from 642 Things to Draw book like this:

I'm convinced that doing these small, either daily or at regular interval drawings will prevent me from becoming bored with the monotony of the anatomy studies. Plus I'll gain the skill of being able to draw objects and animals.

I realized that I've been talking the talk of being committed to drawing practice and studying since completing my project in April, 2016 but I realized that I'm NOT walking the walk.

In other words, I realized that I have no DISCIPLINE.

Discipline is a habit and I need to instill that habit. To do that, I turned to self-improvement and leadership expert Robin Sharma.

In my next post, I'll explain Robin Sharma's method for instilling a new habit.

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