I'm not exactly sure what to write, I really lost my confidence for a while to write anything or draw anything.
Ive been doing projects for other people but not for me, and its making things that I don't really like in styles that aren't really me. Then it stops being something I enjoy, but feels like work I have to do an that I don't want to do. This doesnt make sense since I thought this was what I liked to do.
Recently I have remembered that creativity is for wellness for me, and for you if you want to use it. It's much more freeing when you can just do what you want to do. Ive spent this week making some time to draw and paint, not as work or to please someone else, but just for me.
I have gotten slightly obsessed with giraffes but you can draw whatever you want. If you feel like it. I have been trying to slow down a bit and pay attention when Im looking and drawing, and then I can disappear from any worrying thoughts and focus on just being here now, and giraffes. I also practiced some watercolour with olives (which were actually for someone else but then I found I could do this and enjoy it when I stopped worrying about it being good enough) and I tried some sketching with a lion.
Its quite new for me to be focusing this much on slow drawings. Normally I scribble and blob things around. I combined a bit of that with some colour and some ink onto one of my giraffe pictures. But I like the zone of concentration I can find and the outcome feels more rewarding when I slow down. Its a nice way to feel more like myself again if I ever feel a bit far away.
Ive been doing projects for other people but not for me, and its making things that I don't really like in styles that aren't really me. Then it stops being something I enjoy, but feels like work I have to do an that I don't want to do. This doesnt make sense since I thought this was what I liked to do.
Recently I have remembered that creativity is for wellness for me, and for you if you want to use it. It's much more freeing when you can just do what you want to do. Ive spent this week making some time to draw and paint, not as work or to please someone else, but just for me.
I have gotten slightly obsessed with giraffes but you can draw whatever you want. If you feel like it. I have been trying to slow down a bit and pay attention when Im looking and drawing, and then I can disappear from any worrying thoughts and focus on just being here now, and giraffes. I also practiced some watercolour with olives (which were actually for someone else but then I found I could do this and enjoy it when I stopped worrying about it being good enough) and I tried some sketching with a lion.
Its quite new for me to be focusing this much on slow drawings. Normally I scribble and blob things around. I combined a bit of that with some colour and some ink onto one of my giraffe pictures. But I like the zone of concentration I can find and the outcome feels more rewarding when I slow down. Its a nice way to feel more like myself again if I ever feel a bit far away.
