I only briefly left my apartment today. I spent most of the day sitting at my desk drawing and watching things on my laptop or listening to music.

I spoke to L this morning which was good. We talked about the art and tried to come up with a strategy as to how I could make some money from it. I’m trying to get over the idea that the art I create isn’t actually worth anything. It’s getting better and I like it. I’m sure there are other people who would like it, too. I’m not sure that means there would be people willing to pay me to create it for them, but that’s not something I’d actually know until I try.

I think that my best strategy, and the one that’s most likely to create a return on my investment of time, would be to spend at most 3-4 hours on each drawing. When I spend a lot of hours on them I never like them quite as much. They end up being too intricate and just feel cluttered. I’ve also got to get better at including more white space and becoming comfortable leaving parts of the drawing blank.

I like both the drawings I completed today. They are very different from each other. Neither is overly complex, nor did they take much time (maybe 3 hours each). They’re cool, though, and it’s really neat to have produced something that’s quite different from the things I’ve been producing. I like seeing the progression and being able to look at the evidence that I’m getting better at this and that I can expect them to continue getting better as I work at it.

I’m still not convinced I could support myself solely from drawing, or that I could sell any of them, for that matter, but I’m willing to try to at least supplement my income with it. I’ve got to try something outside of the box. And who knows, once I start putting my name out there as an artist and a writer there could be other connections made that help me develop into next steps. It’s all a process and I have to trust in that process. I’m learning to do that.