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4:07 PM, Monday February 3rd 2020

So the thing that I always tell people on the Discord is that "drawing for fun" really means "drawing for the SAKE of drawing". A non-art example is if you're wanting to approach the topic of World War II. You'll interact with it differently if you have to take a test on it (doing the thing for learning's sake) than if you just want to watch some documentaries on it (doing the thing for the sake of it).

It's not that you're not allowed to practice during your "for fun" time, just that the end goal should be to make a drawing, not necessarily to make a "good" drawing. Alternatively, something that might be very difficult but is worth a shot, is do your best to make the crappiest drawing possible. I sometimes draw weird shitty goats when I'm stuck. They're purposefully bad, so I don't need to get in my head about how they're not good. They're good because they're bad.

1:31 PM, Tuesday February 4th 2020

Really good point, thanks =) This helped a lot, I was able to get off my butt this morning and draw some houses and stuff. Partly based in the lessons I've done, stuff like finding the center of a rectangle in perspective and so on... but not done for the sake of lessons, just because I wanted to draw a house. It worked!

1:11 AM, Wednesday February 5th 2020

Wooo!! Super happy for you!

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