A sketch a day, everyday for a month: What I’ve learned so far
<p>A Sketch a Day, Everyday: What I’ve Learned So Far</p>
<p>Art is never the result of what you set out to do.</p>
<p>At the beginning of the year, my friend Mindy convinced me to do a sketch a day with her. She lives in Richmond and I live in Portland and so everyday we trade photos of our sketches of the day.</p>
<p>So far I’ve sketched my hand, a dying plant ( which I watered), various cafes where I write, various faces of cafe goers ( surreptitiously) , a bagel before I ate it, a stapler, a computer tower, in my office, among other things. Sometimes I only have ten minutes, so I do what I can quickly, before I have to go teach a class.</p>
<p>I have learned an enormous amount in the last month of doing this seemingly small thing everyday, and most of it as it turns out, is about much more than drawing.</p>
<p>Here are a few of the insights I’ve gleaned in the last month:</p>
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<li><strong>It’s about your inner game</strong></li>
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<p>I have no formal art training and so everyday, I confront my feelings of incompetence and perfectionism. For much of my life, these feelings have stopped me from doing things I have longed to do, and prevented me from even learning the skills involved.</p>
<p>Whenever I am able to get over myself, and do something, no matter how terrible it is, it is better than nothing. Done is better than perfect. Something, even a bad something is better than nothing.</p>
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