Thinking is my greatest pleasure and my greatest distraction. Sitting by the window with a cup of coffee, I get lost in contemplating work, projects and creative challenges. This habit of getting lost in thought has shaped both my artistic practice and the direction of this blog – a direction that’s about to change.
I’ve been having a lot of trouble with this blog, to be honest. For years now. I’d love to help creative people, but I really need to focus on my work as an illustrator and comic artist. For a while, I tried doing this blog on the side, but it never worked out the way I wanted it to.
Finally, I had an idea of how to get things going again. When I was thinking about my blog, I thought “Why not tell people what I think?” Because that is what this blog is. Even though I love helping people, I still think about creative problems because I have them too. And by researching and thinking about these problems, I also help myself.
That is why I decided to share my thoughts with you in a new and shorter format. You will learn what I did today, what I thought about, what problems I encountered, and what solutions I came up with. I will try to do this much more frequently, attaching a sketchbook page of the day to the writing. Yes, that’s five times a week.
I am going to call it “Creative Clutter“. It is a mixture of writing and my sketchbook, which may or may not be related to the content of the post.
Here is a list of topics I want to do:
Creative Process & Mindset
- Insights In My Daily Work
- Thoughts I Had
- My Creative Process
- Mindset and Motivation
- Emotional & Mental Wellbeing
Projects & Problem-Solving
- Problems With Personal Projects
- What Helped Me Today
- Productivity and Work Techniques
- Storytelling
Resources & Inspiration
- Skills & Resources
- Inspiration
- Note-taking
- Cool Apps I Found
So basically everything I already have on my blog, but now in a more diary-like essay form and shorter.
What’s in it for you?
You will get more stuff on almost the same topics that were already on the blog and first-hand insight into my working process. These will be highly subjective and less researched than the other posts I have made on this blog. Still, it should be worth your while. And you’ll get some silly drawings along the way, so that’s a plus.
What’s in it for me?
I will be focusing more on a daily sketchbook, which I have wanted to do for ages. I am a bit of a “loose paper”-drawer and have a lot of sketchbooks lying around. Now, instead of drawing on every available surface, I will draw on one sketchbook page a day.
I love writing and this will help me learn to write better, something I still struggle with. I will be actively trying to learn to write better, so hopefully this blog will get better over time.
And finally, my blog is now more a part of my work as an illustrator and comic artist. So we’ll see how l will manage this because doing this more often than the old blog posts and adding a sketchbook page to it is a lot of work! But I like challenges.