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I'm really cute and

A beautiful calla lily leaf

Snake skin from a 2m Python I'll be using in my install

The painting in the back is by my friend Georgie

Hey, this question is actually very good because it asks about the practice of drawing specifically and not like, just art making in general. I find it very hard to hit an artists block where I'm completely uninspired to make anything - but a drawing block specifically is extremely frequent for me (which probably sounds weird bc it is my main medium). If im being honest, I mostly think the block for most people is associated to the labour involved with drawing. My practice can be very mentally intensive and draining at times. Sitting down and committing time to something where everything is so controlled can sort of become boring. I'm not sure I have the answer, because it's still something I experience, but I think it's about allowing ur practice to expand so that you incorporate other things in ur process of making. Think about it in a "vacation" sort of sense. Take a 2 hour holiday from drawing and flip through a magazine, or take the week off and do some photo taking. Change the tool you usually use for the day and just paste things, or just cut things. Photocopy things. Paint. I think the best thing to remember is that the mechanism of drawing is not simply to use a pencil on a surface. It is a complex practice that you are in control of expanding upon every day. It's really helped me lately to also act as an oil painter, even though I am not one. Oil painters usually have several paintings going on at once because they need to wait for layers to dry. Have several types of documentation and mark making going on at once (by this I mean, take screenshots, write words, have a big scale work going, keep a journal - just do lots of drawing type behaviours alongside one another), that way you know you're still making even if you feel like you're not "pencil to paper" drawing. The block is always harder to fall into when you have heaps of things running along side one another at the same time. You can take ur work anywhere u want it to go, and I think that's a really exciting thing to remind urself of. It's okay to not draw-draw in the traditional sense, give urself some space, when you come back to it in its original practical sense you'll see how important it is to allow urself some breathing room too! X