OK, so recently I told you that drawing a little every day is the best way to improve (and up your output). One of the problems you’ll run into is that it’s hard to carve out an hour or even half an hour for drawing each day. While I’m not sure what your average day looks like, I doubt you sit around picking lint out of your bellybutton thinking: gosh, I wonder what I’ll do with all this time I have lying around.
No, you’re busy. I get that. Still, I believe you could find the time to draw every day if you made it a priority. Because time you have, 24 hours every day.
Where is my time hiding?
You can find time around, outside of and even during whatever normally takes up your time. You can multitask and draw while watching TV (you’d be amazed how little you actually need to look at the screen to follow a TV show or movie, especially comedy). You can draw during lectures or in your lunch break at work. If you can get into doing quick sketches, you can even take a tea break for drawing time, or pause during your walk to work to do a quick architecture study.
This is small-time time though. If you want to get some real time in, it’s better to actually schedule time. An hour straight after work, for instance, or right after dinner. Think about this: if you found out about an interesting, free drawing course that would help you exactly where you need it and is held in the evenings near enough your home, would you go? Would you find the time? I think you would. So time isn’t really the problem, it’s your perspective on it. Think of your drawing time as study time, improvement time. If you want the feel of a course you could get a book that suggests exercises, or set up a programme for yourself. You know what you need to work on, so work on it.
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