It’s been years since I can’t just draw for
pleasure. I have been working and therefore I’ve been drawing and creating
illustrations and animations. But I haven’t felt like drawing just for the fun
of it. I tried many times, just to feel sad and frustrated after staring at the
blank page.
I came across Julia Cameron's The Artist’s Way a couple of months ago, I read about it somewhere so I went ahead and
bought the digital version, I started reading it and everything spoke to me
deeply, so I got excited, I really wanted to start. And I found excuses, lots
of them, so I put it off.
Last week, around the time I decided I was
going to write in my blog at least once per week, I decided to follow The
Artist’s Way program, it’s 12 weeks of exercises, that’s not too long compared
to the time I’ve been feeling like a cheat because I don’t enjoy making art
anymore.
I started the morning pages a week ago. I
think I just needed to prove myself that I want to recover my creative spark and I will. So just
morning pages and one artist date this week, I’m calling it week 0 since I didn’t
do any other activity from week 1. Hell, I just read Week 1 today!
It’s just
week 0 and I feel much better because I’m taking action, and not just in the
program, but because I started working on personal projects, more than one.
That is a big win for me!!
Since all my work from the week is still in
progress I’m attaching an older piece (just a month old), to celebrate that
Spring is coming.
