whatever lies beyond this morning

One of the things I highly recommend to artists, beginners or not, is to keep as much of a timeline of your art as you can. Keep your old sketchbooks safe, take pictures of art that you’re selling or giving away. Art is one of many hobbies where progress always feels incredibly slow, and it’s so easy to get discouraged when you feel like your art is the same as it’s always been, and you look around to your friends or coworkers or online and see such wonderful art! But then, if you look at things like your childhood drawings, your old sketchbooks, your first digital drawings and make a timeline of your progress, you can truly see how much you’ve improved over the years. It gives you a timeline of when you’ve fallen in and out of love with art and why. So if you’re fortunate enough to have your childhood drawings, and keep an archive of your sketchbooks, maybe take a peek at them every now and then :)