PolarBearChan

Most of the excuses for not drawing is lacking of ideas. On part 1 of this journal I explained why I find it useful to keep a notebook with you, and to write down your ideas whenever possible. This second part is about developing the habit of drawing. Hope you find it useful! :bulletblue:Create the habit of drawing:bulletblue: First thing to know about creating new habits is that it works kinda like inertia law: "An object at rest will remain at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced force. An object in motion continues in motion." Which means that the more you postpone your drawings the more you'll feel like delaying them. This procrasti

As I said on a previous submission, I'm planning to make some tutorials on the upcoming December. Before that, however, I feel like I can help on another subject, which comes before even starting your drawing: Procrastination. I mean, procrastination towards your own drawings. If you're not familiar with this word: pro-cras-ti-na-tion |prəˌkrastəˈnāSHən, prō-|noun "the action of delaying or postponing something." Why am I talking about this? Well, a year ago I used to be a professional procrastinator. I've imposed the 365 Days of Doodles challenge to myself for this particular reason. While procrastina

My deviant story is not one of the longest, I'm here since January 24th. As you may already know, I have started 2014 with the objective of drawing 1 doodle a day. For the whole year. (: My first deviation, doodle #1 Everything started as a very personal project on my Instagram account. I admit I was a bit afraid of joining dA and submitting my project in here. In part, that was  because I don't think I can express myself in English as well as I can with my main language - which is Portuguese. Another reason was that I came across deviantART through very famous deviations so I used to see dA as a fancy art gallery, not as a digital communi

The 7 Days Drawing challenge ended last Wednesday and now it's time for features! Thank you very much everyone who joined the challenge. It's interesting to see how this challenge required mostly creativity and determination rather than just art skill. Congratulations to all of those who managed to finish, I'm very proud to see that many of you did :heart: As promised, I chose 7 of my favorite projects and I'll reward them with a free request doodle by me! Here they are (be sure to check out their galleries!!): ~phase-daze (https://www.deviantart.com/phase-daze):iconiichiren::iconmangakidart::iconodettery::iconreenacat::iconlyoth737::iconcoffeevulture: I've chosen :ic

Here we go! Firstly, I know time zones may be a problem. It's Wednesday 18, June, 13:00 o'clock where I live. The challenge starts counting from now on. Thankfully, DeviantART lets me know when the deviation was submitted. (: I'm amazed with the amount of people interested in joining the challenge. It must be started today in order to be finished next Wednesday. If you can't join for any reason, don't worry! I'll be doing more Drawing Challenges in the future.  What's a 7 Days Drawing Challenge? The challenge is drawing 7 different things based on 7 themes I will give you guys. A drawing a day. I know it may sound a bit tiring but the

First of all thank you very much for all of those who are willing to take part in this challenge! We'll start this Wednesday (18th June). Be sure you won't miss it! :bulletblue: What's a 7 Days Drawing Challenge? The challenge is drawing 7 different things based on 7 themes I will give you guys. A drawing a day. I know it may sound a bit tiring but the objective is to keep yourself inspired during 7 days in a row. The more you draw, the more you'll feel like drawing! :bulletblue: What about the Rules? The only rule is that you have to draw (and submit) something each day! It doesn't matter the media nor the art style. That means it can be

365 Days of Doodles is a project in which I should make 1 drawing for each day of 2014. When I started this deviantART account I was already in the 24th doodle (I've been submitting my work since the first day of January on my Instagram account). I decided to upload all the 24 doodles in a row, after that I'll submit 1 drawing per day as I finish each one of them. Hope you like my work so far!