Your ego wants.
It is sometimes disguised
as your heart
or your mind.
but
YOU don't want.
you simply A R E
Your worldly desires tell you
that you could be
richer
prettier
happier
when everything you need
you already have.
I can't help wondering why I'm still here.
I can't seem to pick up a pencil no matter what.
I'm either too tired, too sad or too angry to even try. Or if I'm kind of happier for a passing moment, trying to draw would just be unleashing a pending failure, so I won't risk it.
Or I'm too busy. And when I'm not, I'll think of something else to do. Or I just think. Of all the things I shouldn't think of. I hate to drown in obligations, I'm sick of all the things I should do... yet it seems healthier to be busy and thus miserable than to have free time I'm only capable of using to make myself even more dejected.
I tell mysel
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"OMG this looks amazing !!! I wish I could draw like that"
"You draw so awesome !! my drawings never look this good"
I read similar comments under my drawings
and I know the hidden pain behind it, I really do.
So, let's talk about how YOU can be good at drawing.
Keep in mind, This is not a "Tutorial" about drawing. This is how I got better at drawing. I noticed some things, that I want to share. This is NOT the "only" way, this is NOT the "right" way and I'm pretty sure that this is not gonna be the "easy" way either.
This is just some "Banana-thief, Bed-jumper, Diaper-monkey" way to get better at drawing.
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