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Anny Chen's avatar

“The first thing art directors want to see is your portfolio, the second is your sketchbook.” - What a great insight, Adam. Thank you for sharing! I just bought my sketchbook this week, and wrote down a list of things I want to draw. So ready for daily sketch practice accountability 😁💪✍️ Also, wanted to add that I happen to be reading “Four Thousand Weeks” by Oliver Burkeman, and just finished the chapter on cultivating patience. He writes about “embracing radical incrementalism,” which aligns with what you are saying about the benefits of a daily sketch practice. He mentions writers but the same applies to artists: “The most productive and successful among them generally made writing a smaller part of their daily routine...so that it was much more feasible to keep going with it day after day. They cultivated the patience to tolerate the fact that they probably wouldn’t be producing very much on any individual day, with the result that they produced much more over the long term. They wrote in brief daily sessions - sometimes as short as ten minutes, and never longer than four hours...” I imagine it’s different when you have hard client deadlines, but I have found in my own practice that four hours is really the “limit” of any solid creative flow. Anything longer than that and my brain starts to mush. A sustainable creative practice is so important for long term success, I imagine.

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Jeremy Ray Ross's avatar

I’m thinking of creating an archive page on my website to upload my sketchbook work. Thoughts?

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