You hear it all the time: If you’re serious about your art, you plug away at it EVERY SINGLE DAY.
I’m on the fence about whether this advice is useful. I know that if we’re being honest with ourselves, we rarely manage to do something daily. Yet we try and when we don’t succeed, we harangue ourselves for not measuring up.
Still, there’s some benefit from practicing something on a daily basis. I recently completed a 58-day project. The mission was to do one drawing a day in my Moleskine accordion notebook.
I did this because I wanted the comfort and regularity of drawing, and I liked the idea of recording my life visually. It was great fun and I also gained a lot for my creative life overall.
Here’s what a daily practice taught me that you may benefit from as well: [Read more…] about Love It Daily: The Benefits of a Regular Creative Practice