It’s been about two weeks since I’ve drawn much of anything.
The trouble isn’t that I lost my focus. It’s that I found it, instead.
Suddenly able to concentrate, I remembered all the things I wanted to do but formerly couldn’t. Chief among those was reading, and that’s primarily what I’ve been up to.
But with all the reading, I haven’t done much drawing, so I’ve kind of lost my touch. And you know how it is. Once you lose your touch, you can grow resistant to the idea of beginning again.
Ugh, you think to yourself, it’s not going to go well and I’m going to get frustrated and I’m likely to throw something at someone I love.
But the longer you wait, the heavier things get. Inertia sets in. Fear grows larger and takes to plopping its fat ass atop your art supplies.
You could square your shoulders up, put your head down, and put everything you have into tackling the beast, but you just don’t think you have that much to put into it.
So how about five minutes? I mean, come on, everyone has five minutes.
That’s what I gave to the simple sketch you see today, the one of a floppy eared puppy dog. How cute, right?
It’s not much, but after five minutes with Fido, I felt that little itch again. I set a little something free. I became my own nudge instead of my own judge.
That itch, that little something, that nudge is what my friend Jamie Ridler calls a sparkle, and it only takes five minutes to create one.
In fact, I bet it was a little five minute exercise that gave her the idea for Creative Sparkles, an e-course that provides you with thirty-one ways in thirty-one days to get your sparkle on in just five minutes.
Each installment of the e-course provides you with a five minute creative exercise from either Jamie or one of her creative friends. Psst, I’m one of them.
It’s a great little e-course, I think. But don’t take it from me. You be the nudge.
Go ahead. Get your sparkle on.
