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9:32 AM, Friday August 14th 2020

I think you should sometimes try to draw spontaneously when you just scribble some random lines and make it out sg. because then you won't really have a specific picture in your head you will only get one while the process. Also, try to draw everything twice, when you creat your first work came back a few days later look at the mistakes you had made and do it again( trust me it will be better). And sometimes stay away from social media(or at least the art side of it) because it can really hurt your self-esteem. I don't know if this things will work for you but If you want give it a try ;)

6:20 AM, Sunday August 16th 2020

Perhaps I will :o How will the spontaneous drawing help, though?

9:32 AM, Sunday August 16th 2020

Well, I only can talk about my perspective but when I creat those random lines I don't really care about how they look,flow and everything. Usually when I sit down to draw something from imagination I already have a picture of it in my head and you can guess it, my art work won't look like what I wanted. But when I just do those random drawings its different, it is like what I see out of the lines I've already created and often the end result feels better. Maybe, it won't work for you and it sounds like a bunch of nonsense (maybe it is ;) ) but give it a try. What I can see is that you are worried about the end result and because of that you can't really enjoy the process.

1:11 PM, Sunday August 16th 2020

That kind of contradicts how Drawabox's Lesson 0 encourages you to power through the frustration, though... https://drawabox.com/lesson/0/2

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