Ten Minute Artist Weekly Rounds up the week’s daily prompts along with a few interesting finds of the week. It’s perfect catching up on any prompts you missed or if you prefer an hour of art making on the weekend rather than 10 minutes a day. You choose to receive daily and/or weekly editions here.
This Week…
We started by treating ourselves like precious objects, explored what we might do if we couldn’t fail and gained some clarity about how to spend our attention and energy, not where I expected to go this week but I went with it, and liked how it shaped up!
MONDAY: Treating yourself like a precious object will make you strong.
TUESDAY: I showed you how I Design Characters for books I illustrate.
WEDNESDAY: We made a list of things we would do if we couldn’t fail.
THURSDAY: The feed is a trough, I suggested you ‘search’ instead.
FRIDAY: We got clarity with @danblank ‘s clarity cards
Coming up…
The Ten by Ten (10x10) challenge.
I took some time to think this week and I decided to start a morning ritual or protocol, where I aim to do 10 positive habits for ten minutes each first thing in the morning for 90 days. This is partly inspired by Dan Blank’s clarity cards, but also my attempts at doing 100 pushups a day (spaced out)
I did it this morning and it felt great.
I call it the Ten by Ten challenge. (10X10)
I’m not challenging you or prescribing the routine, I’m challenging myself. But I’m going to do it publicly while taking notes, because I think you’ll find it interesting
So look out for that in the upcoming daily editions.
As a primer, answer this…
If you have an answer that is not listed please leave a comment.
Also coming up…
In 2 days, I’m hosting a FREE draw along and Q&A about Drawing Picture Stories Retreat in Portugal in March 2027. Joining me on the Zoom is Sofia Ramos (venue host) to answer any questions about the location, logistics and experience of being in Monsaraz, Portugal. While I answer questions about what you are going to get out of the workshops as well as more general questions about what I’ve learned about illustration that has enabled me to work illustrating Children’s books for the past 5 years all — while drawing a Place, Animal, Character and Thing from the location!
Lastly…
Here is a couple of interesting notes I found on substack this week.
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This week I game myself to think and set some intention and direction for the coming years, it’s the kind of thing a company would do at this time of year, being a full-time creative person, is a bit like being a company, the difference is the fulltime creative person needs to balance structure and openness to creativity.
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من نوشتن صفحات صبح و مسواک زدن و نفس عمیق رو توی لیست صبحگاهی خودم دارم.