Motivation is overrated
Design your environment
Sketchifer
Instead of brute force pushing yourself to draw, design your environment to do the heavy lifting.
Same place, same activity
Humans are tactile creatures, and we associate physical spaces with specific thoughts and activities
We automatically go into work mode when we sit down at the office, think about food when we walk into the kitchen, and granted you don’t stay up all night watching cartoons - when we lay in our beds, we know it’s time for sleep.
Setting up a physical space where you only create art accomplishes the same thing.
Seeing is doing
In addition, if your room features a drafting table, you’re going to be exposed to it everyday. The “mere exposure effect”, means that the more we see something, the more we like it. Internet and TV ads work by continuous exposure. Why not design your environment to repeatedly expose yourself to the thing that you actually want to accomplish?
Help out future you
If you’re struggling to draw everyday, the last thing you want to do is give yourself the extra hurdle to pull out all your pencils, paper, and other art materials before you even begin.
Sure, it might not seem like that much extra work, but even a small barrier for entry can be highly demotivating.
If you draw first thing in the morning after coffee, make sure your supplies are all set and ready to go the night before.
Or heck, just leave it all out indefinitely, and you’ve saved yourself a lot of repeated effort.
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