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I fell off yet again. Been weeks... months really. But I haven't given up. I want to do more. I want to be here, I want to be a better artist. One year ago I quit my teaching job to become an artist. It's been hard getting rid of bad habits picked up during that time and there is so much more to go. I'm excited to be back. I may fall off but I will come back stronger than ever!

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Comfort Food, featuring Kare Kare (a dish from the Philippines) and Nasi Goreng (fried rice, national dish of Indonesia)

#mental health #self care #productivity

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Nothing has to be the way you think it does. Nothing has to be like anything at all. If nothing goes your way thats ok. You can make mistakes. You can take your time. You can start your day whenever and however you like. You can go about your journey however feels right. There is no right or wrong way. There is no, you HAVE to do this thing to do the other thing. You are not those other people and they are not you. Take your time. Take it slow. Experiment, pay attention. Don't rush greatness. Nothing has to be perfect. It's ok to make mistakes. It's ok for others to see you make mistakes. It makes you human and can remind others in your position that they are human too, and that not everyone knows what they are doing. Take comfort in that fact. You're doing great. You're where you need to be at this point in time. The past doesn't exist and the future hasn't been written. All that exists is this moment and what you do with that and the next.

#mental health #productivity #inspo #art blogger #art block #growth #growth mindset

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What a nice wip….. would be a shame if I….. started a new one….

#i literally have like 10 projects going on at the same time

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Does anybody ever draw their inner demons? I decided to give the bastard a form. Feels cathartic and I think it's easier to destroy him when I can picture what he looks like. I don't know his name yet but I'll keep meditating on it.

#he tells me i'll never be a good enough artist #that im just going about wasting time #but I know it isnt true #im using my time as well as I can and theres nothing wrong with that #art is a process and i want to enjoy it even though it's hard #mental health #art blogger #inner demons

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Using Line of Action to practice drawing people because drawing people is the absolute worst for me. My gremlin brain HATED this, but I did it anyway!

I went with a class mode length of 30min, which included ten 30sec gestures, five 60sec gestures, tao 5min gestures, and one 10min gesture.

It's ugly, it's shitty, I hate it and want to burn it, but it's progress.

#productivity #art blogger #shitty art #progress #mental health #self education #nudity #gesture drawing #drawing studies #anatomy studies

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in other news, doing art warm ups suck major ass and i literally feel every bit of resistance my brain throws my way in an attempt to get me to stop. too bad bitch get used to the discomfort

#growth mindset #art blogger #art block #metal health

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so i still ended up staring at the computer for almost 2 hours before i got my sorry ass in gear. executive disfunction is strong today but i'm determined to be productive in spite of it. how do other people break through it that mind block, i wonder?

#mental health #art blogger #productivity

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Came to the library to draw but I've been sitting in the car for 30min scrolling through Tumblr.

#executive disfunction #art blogger #time to get my ass in gear lets gooooooo

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growing is hard

growing is uncomfortable

the idea of making art terrifies me yet it continues to draw me in

#other me speaks #mental health #artist life #art blogger

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sometimes im afraid of being creative

#creativity #art #mental health #artist #art blogger

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#inspiration #mental health

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Sometimes, self care is making yourself a tasty cottage pie 🥧😋

#decided to do something different today and cook my weekly meal first before drawing #otherwise i'll just start drawing and wont do anything else today #self care #mental health #meal planning

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"Why should we all use our creative power . . . ? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lovely, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money"

-Brenda Ueland

#creativity #inspiration #brenda ueland #i feel this in my soul

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forgive yourself for the stagnancy that was produced from your depression