Every now and again, I like to do a 'still life drawing' and pick a subject in front of me or set something up. I feel it helps train your 'eye' and we move out of the ‘thinking’ and into the present, you have to focus on what you see rather than what you think it should look like. There are also additional exercises that you can do that will help in your creative practice.
Check out the Yoga of Drawing
What you can Try
Pick a simple object – you choose what catches your eye. Spend ten minutes drawing it. Don’t worry about accuracy. Focus on shape, shadow, and form.
Additional Exercises
Try continuous line drawing don’t lift up your pen and create a figure
Blind contour drawing – don’t look at your paper and draw the figure. It takes time to get used to the activities but do something every day. These practices strengthen your connection to what’s real and present.
Drawing from observation builds patience, attention, and skill and helps you practice sensitivity to your surroundings.
Takeaway Nuggets:
Drawing teaches presence and awareness.
It’s not about likeness - it’s about looking.
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Check out some of the free and paid resources below to enhance your creative journey
Check out Filling the Creative Well which helps you establish your creative practice. In the course Filling the Creative Well, your journal is also a place to answer questions, encourage and motivate you, some days you need a reminder and so filling it with encouraging words so that you can come back to it, especially in those days where you are in a valley is really important. .
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