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Friday, June 19, 2015

The Art of Procrastination

Whats the deal with this Procrastination thing?

Perhaps you absolutely love to make art, but the threshold you need to get over, to actually start doing it, seems sky high.

Your laundry gets folded oh so neatly, all windows are cleaned, your art tools are stored and archived in alphabetical order, your books now color-coded on the shelves... but still, you didnt put one single pen or brush stroke on your paper.
Why?

A friend of mine told me about her new resolution. She decided on it, after a very relaxing holiday. She said: "you know what? I am always cleaning my house in the weekends, but I want to enjoy my weekends and be free to do whatever I feel like, just like the feeling you have on vacation every day."

She came to realize that a clean house is important, but downtime is so much more important. Just sitting down and read, taking an afternoon nap, or going for a ride on her motorcycle. Thats what its about. Its okay to let the laundry basket overflow every once in a while. Or to leave the dishes in the sink when its one of those beatiful sunny fall days. Its not gonna kill you. As long as you, instead, do what you love.

Procrastinate on your chores. Make Procrastination work with you, not against you. Stop self-sabotaging your limited art time!
And in fact, its likely that the mess you are making, could even be a great excuse to sketch!

What do you procrastinate on, and how? How could you turn it around?

Seven Days of simply drawing

Whoot! This is fun!

Next Sunday, I am starting a mini-challenge for whoever likes to join:

Its a simple plan:
Starting September 8, for seven days, each day take a short break to fill one of the frames in the workbook Ive created for you.
You can join for FREE, and download the FREE WORKBOOK by clicking here

This is how it works:

In The Workbook, you will find 7 simple prompts, 1 for each day of the week from Sunday September 8 to Saturday September 14.

It would be great if youd share your daily creations with me, through Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest or Instagram!

Here are the links to my spaces on social media:
Facebook
Twitter @koosjekoene
Pinterest
I created a board, especially for our Seven Days Workbook pages. If youd like to be able to pin on the board, send me an email so I can invite you to pin onto the board. (draw[at]koosjekoene[dot]nl)
Instagram

Download your copy of the FREE workbook

by clicking here

and join these Seven Days of creativity and fun!

Month of MARVEL Day 12

Silver Surfer

The Silver Surfer initially struck me as a goofy sort of idea, but reading the comics and seeing him in action, I think the chrome-skinned Norin Radd slicing through space is pretty cool. He was one of the things I actually kinda enjoyed in that Fantastic Four sequel.

Month of MARVEL Day 5

Thor

Its Marvels Thor! I was wondering, where did they get the name for Thors hammer, the Mjolnir? Thats quite the name...

Hey, remember that little girl in Adventures in Babysitting who was totally into Thor? Itd be cool to get one of those helmets :)