You’ll be astounded how fast you can improve your cartooning through simple self-observation
So how can you use weightloss tools to improve cartooning?
Some years back with my clothes becoming increasingly tight, I decided I needed some extra help. I joined Weight-watchers, and off I went to weekly meetings. One of the tools was a Daily Tracker to record every morsel that passed my lips. “If you bite, you write” my leader insisted. And who was I to argue?
Pretty soon I had noted three habits that were making my clothes shrink 😉
Once I was aware of the habits it was a hop and a skip to formulate three rules for myself. Guess what? Within a few months, I had a new (smaller) wardrobe. But my success really started with the awareness that came from self-observation.
On my Da Vinci cartooning course, I encourage you to ‘Track’ your process
We’ve found that the simple habit of self-observation, consistently applied, helps you improve cartooning at a speed you can scarcely believe. And it’s a habit that keeps on giving back.
When you become aware of your learning, its effects are multiplied. You are attuned to your rate of progress and your motivation sky-rockets. You gain even more momentum, and make more progress, and BAM! – a virtuous, tornado-like, upward spiral is unleashed. It’s so simple.
Observing yourself to improve cartooning needn’t be onerous
Effectively it amounts to jotting down a few words or sentences each day when you finish drawing. You can record how you felt, what you drew, the process you used – whatever springs to mind.
Some days you might write nothing at all, but those days become rare as you tune in regularly. At the end of the week you can do a more formal recording which we have found works well to consolidate learning and put the focus on the week ahead. But keep daily observations as simple as possible.
After all, you don’t want to interrupt the flow
Most of our students comment that they lose track of time because they get so immersed in what they doing. It’s almost a form of mindfulness practice, an enriching and meditative process. And observing needs to take second place to that ‘flow’, otherwise it becomes counter-productive.
You might feel like recording your learning daily is over the top
And actually, we are not rigid about daily learning – it’s a strong suggestion, not a requirement. Friday learning posts are a course requirement for us, while daily observations are a personal choice.
But it’s a choice I think you will be glad you made…
…If you try it for a week or two. It takes about 30 seconds after you’ve drawn your last stroke, to jot down a word or a sentence or two. On days when you have nothing to say about your cartooning, you could comment on your mood, or the weather.
Over time, you’ll be surprised as that patterns that are revealed – and you improve cartooning – just like my three daily habits that were having such frustrating effects on the size of my clothing 😉
And I bet now you’re wondering about my three improve cartooning eating rules
But that’s probably a topic for another post in some other forum 😀
For now it’s time to go and improve cartooning…
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