Once a year I run a Crocodile Day marathon. We draw together. Long time. After the marathon, I still receive letters for a very long time that a vacuum has formed, the incentive has been lost, and the next marathon is needed. How not to fall out of this mood to create?
There is a lot of training material on our site. With this knowledge, everyone can become a professional illustrator and create their own books, but why not everyone succeeds?
The problem is that many participants in courses and marathons finish their studies and return to their usual everyday life. Those who already have orders – they continue to draw in their usual manner and pace, and those who do not yet – may forget about drawing altogether. Very few people continue to actively use and polish the knowledge gained and develop in new directions.
Even me! Recently, Masha Titova and I held an amazing master class on hand-printed stencil techniques. Created Dragons. You can watch this master class for free HERE. Masha taught me and all participants to do amazing things. Everyone was indescribable delight! I am inclusive. But since then I have never returned to this technique, although I was very interested in it.
Why?
We lack a clear understanding of how to integrate new information and skills into our daily life and work.
We lose our incentive because there is no lesson structure or marathon reporting.
Learn to apply new knowledge in the usual established stream of life or work. requires a certain amount of tension. It is not simple. And once again I do not want to strain.What to do about it?
How often to draw, whom to draw, where to draw? How to maintain the acquired knowledge, skills and abilities and how to learn to acquire new ones? How do I find the inner support?
Habit change is not easy
And this requires perseverance and fixation on a specific task that you set in front of yourself in a particular drawing, what exactly you fix while the skill is still in its raw state. It is important to maintain regularity throughout the month, it’s not easy, but this is how habits change. Even 5 minutes a day will do their job, the main thing is regularity.
It is important to understand – WHY? But probably first you need to figure out what exactly you learned / understood / learned during the course of the training material or marathon. What did this experience give you personally? And then answer the second question – why do you need this? How can this help you? Desirable in writing. Agree, a few analyze the information received and spend time understanding why they need it.
