Toes!

100 Day Project Day 54

I’ve noticed a weird thing going on. If I write a blog and post it here, I don’t have so many attachments to what happens after. Some people read it (thank you!), some like it (thank you!), and a couple of people comment (very thank you!).

If I post elsewhere, I feel like I have opened a wound and I’m just waiting for someone to rub salt in it 😀

I’m rethinking what I wrote above – when I post here I do have attachments to what happens after, it’s just that they aren’t dominated by the feeling I have just spilled my guts to an audience that doesn’t care.

I posted on Substack for the first time in a short age, and I’m feeling quite naked. I do have clothes on, even a bra, but I’m feeling weirdly nude about it.

That feeling then made me come the closest I have so far to not engaging in my art practise today, which I find interesting. I know there’s lots of discourse on how bad social media is for creativity, so I guess in my mind this blog is just an extension of my sketchbooks and journals, and putting my art elsewhere, including Facebook, is something I need to do *after* the art-making is done for the day, not before.

Anyway, I got over it and made some really bad art in my hardback sketchbook, and decided once and for all that a certain brush is really not my friend, and then I settled into my wee fineliner sketchbook to tackle a very challenging and interesting foot.

I love challenging myself with this sort of thing, because there’s a point where I have to overcome what my brain thinks it is seeing, and reduce the image to shapes. That big toe, for instance, is like a wonky little cartoon spaceship, and when you think about it like that, it becomes less scary than drawing A TOE.

Til the morn,

Suzanne