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My brain usually freezes up when it's time to make lists and dream up character prompts, but today everything clicked! Must be coz I'm inspired :) :) Here's sketching from today's drawing session with @TeMikaTheArtist 😍 #scbwiSummer2022 #scbwiSummer22
@inkyelbows
In drawing this fictional girl the past couple days, getting to know her, I went backwards. I imagined her offering uprooted flowers, back to her yanking them out of the pot, then back again to the moment she was deciding to do it in the first place
#amwriting #kidlitart #kidlit
🎶Something happening here... what it is ain't exactly clear..."
(Songs randomly pop into my brain while I go about my business)
There's a story about a girl, I know that much. I'm listening to this character today :) #amwriting #kidlit #authorillustrator #scbwi
So I made this last night (iPad #Procreate) coz I need to map out how to get my brain to *stay on MY path*. Loved the emphasis on authenticity and #ownvoices at #NY21SCBWI. I have the one I made for Me, and feel free to use the blank one I made for You. #SCBWIBird
#NY21SCBWI My version of sketch-note-taking while listening, a session from earlier :) #scbwi #SCBWIArtists #SCBWIBIRD
I also make random things that have no place at all. I don’t do anything consistent with any of this. Added thread images to show how all over place I am. I’ve applied to some stuff (shows, residencies, mentorships), haven’t gotten any of them. All over the place & nowhere.
Coz of this thread, I've identified a point in time when I lost energy to do anything else other than make art, when I lost the extra something/oomph to get into exhibitions. To not take the rejections so hard? When it wore me out? 2016/2017. It wasn't parenting exhaustion.
Besides deep internal exhaustion from parenting, I mean I love them and choose them but it's emotional exhaustion, I keep making work in the crevices of time I have.