Believe things are possible
Today’s Prompt: C - Cram
TEN MINUTE ARTIST PROMPT
C - Cram:
“The cram was beginning to run short, and they were getting very weary of it. They had eaten little since the morning.”
Note on the practice and this series…
Every day I write a drawing prompt and meditation or open letter. The prompts are meant to be done in 10 minutes but sometimes we get carried away and that’s fine, but the goal is to build a daily practice in as little as 10 minutes a day.
Some do this for the pure joy of it. Others do it to bring more creative joy into their existing creative practice. Some are starting the journey, others have drawn over 500 pages, 10 minutes at a time!
Currently we’re working through a set of 26 prompts, inspired by the children’s classic, ‘The Hobbit’, you can take a look at all the prompts in advance, but we’ll be working on them in a particular order here.
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On Sunday I’ll be sharing your renditions of the prompts for this week, I think it will be nice to make that a regular thing.
I did 4 mentor calls today with 4 people who desire to go into Children’s Publishing, from around the world. It was great talking to each of them.
Each of them was looking forward some kind of certainty. I didn’t give it to them. Instead I offered a process and some perspective. I feel everyone went away a little more confident and purposeful.
There are very few things we can be certain about. Yet somehow as humans we have this capacity to believe things are possible. To see things that haven’t happened yet as done! And then to make it happen.
They came for certainty, I offered them faith.
PS: I’m starting to prep for the next artgym… which will happen on the 8th of May, I’ll be writing some post on Drawing Sports Scenes over the next 5 days over at