Creating Time For What Matters
Hello everyone! I hope you had a good week, and can enjoy your weekend in whatever you do. I also hope you are able to create a little bit of extra time for yourself, to dive into doing the thing you love the most.
Even artists can complain about not having enough time to draw. But why is that? Don’t we all have the same amount of time in a day, but just different priorities? Do we really need to spend our entire lunch break sat inside another building, waiting for a food order, scrolling through social media to see what we are missing out on, and talking about the weather and politics? Could we use some of that lunch hour to do a little bit extra on our creative project(s)?
It doesn't have to be our entire lunch hour of course, we need to eat and refresh ourselves and actually take a break. But what about 30 minutes? What about 15 minutes, what about 10?
These minutes all add up, and you might be surprised at what you can produce in a limited time. And this of course doesn't only apply to art and drawing. It could be reading, writing, practicing anything. I don't know about you, but when I know I only have a certain number of minutes remaining to do something, I usually step up, and bring myself fully to the challenge and focus all my energy as well as I can in that moment on producing whatever I can produce.
Recently I have been spending a lot of time working on assignments, my website and painting, on top of all of the other things that need to be done. I love painting and learning but sometimes I do miss doing simple drawings with pencils, pens and lines. So I decided to try and do a quick lunch sketch/drawing every day during the week to get a bit of extra practice in, on top of my other work and study.
15 Days of Lunch Time Sketching
Below are the first 15 days of lunch break sketching I took part in. None were planned in advance, I just decided moments before what I wanted to draw and went for it. The first one is of a Finnish girl called Jess who I met in a hostel in Colombia on my South America trip.
Day 1. This is my ink drawing of Jessica, a Finnish girl who I met in my hostel in Cartagena, Colombia.
Day 2. This is my ink drawing master study of one of Norman Rockwell's Illustrations.
Day 3. My ink drawing of a lioness.
Day 4. This is my ink drawing of another lioness stretching.
Day 5. This is my ink drawing of a woman about to eat her soup, inspired by a Norman Rockwell illustration.
Day 6. This is my spontaneous ink drawing of a frog.
Day 7. This is my ink drawing of a woman peering at her reflection in the water of a lake, calm and relaxed, enjoying her time alone.
Day 8. This is my ink drawing of a black jaguar in the forest.
Day 9. This is my ink drawing of a character from the Lord of The Rings trilogy.
Day 10. This is my ink drawing of, can you guess who?.
Day 11. This is my ink drawing of another character from the Lord of The Rings, Legolas.
Day 12. This is my ink drawing of a ranger.
Day 13. This is another ink drawing of mine of a ranger.
Day 14. Another one inspired by the LOTR.
Day 15. And finally, a contemplative and hopeful female looks up to the sky.
I hope you enjoyed my post, and I hope you can create a little bit of extra time to work on something that truly matters to you.
Have a great weekend!