![]() ![]() Thank you so much for following this blog and sharing my doodles. This is my last post (though I might update it with more links if I start new social media pages.) I considered other things besides ending the blog such as changing the name so it would reflect the new work I’m doing, or even just posting my new work here even if most of it isn’t positive doodles anymore, but I’m proud of the work I did on positive doodles, and I’d like the project to remain up as it is for people who just want to enjoy the doodles. If you’re interested, you can check it out on I haven’t made a specific page for that project yet, but I’ve been sharing it on all my social media pages along with my other art. My most recent project is to try draw 1000 mugs. I’m excited to still be making art and I look forward to creating more projects in the future. It taught me that I was capable of finishing a big project one small part at a time. Still, when I think back on this project, I’m mostly just proud that I did something for multiple years, often updating multiple times a day. In the future, I’ll try to focus more on finding offline communities so that those relationships aren’t so dependent on social media platforms, or at least on integrating my social media friendships more into the rest of my life, so I’m more likely to keep them. Social media platforms change a lot, and in ways users have no control over. But that experience was already over for me long before I left tumblr. I also miss the community feeling of the early days of tumblr, and how fun it was to just make whatever weird art came to mind, talk with amazing people, and over-analyze small details from tv shows. I knew tumblr wasn’t going to stay big forever and I had to share my work elsewhere if I wanted to keep my career going, but my anxiety made me afraid to do anything that might bring more attention to me (even if that attention would have been great for my career), so I always pushed it off to “tomorrow”, and by the time I finally did it, I’d wasted years I could have spent building an audience on other platforms. ![]() I am improving, but it’s taking time, so I wish I’d started earlier.Īnother thing I wish I’d done is promote my other social media accounts more. Focusing on doodling for so many years was, unsurprisingly, not good for my artistic skills, and I have to work very hard now to catch up to where I could have been if I’d pushed harder when I was younger. It was easy to remember, descriptive, and didn’t require me to put a lot of effort into each piece.īut if I could go back, I would name it something that forced me to work harder. Positive Doodles was a title that helped me career-wise. What I miss the least is feeling confined by the title I gave this project. Googling “creativity prompts” or “illustration prompts” will give you many great options. There are other ways to do it, but I highly recommend keeping a list of back-up prompts in case you feel creatively blocked. It saves me from wasting a lot of time trying to decide. Now I keep an ordered list of smaller personal projects associated with each day (ex: wednesday = coffee mug drawing), so when I can’t think of anything to draw within 10 minutes, I just do the prompt associated with whatever day it is. Without it, I’ve felt a bit lost, and I’ve often wasted hours trying to decide what to draw. Each day, I knew what I would make: a positive doodle. What I miss the most about Positive Doodles is the structure it gave me. I don’t know if anyone is still here, but since it’s been almost a year since I ended this project, I’ve been reflecting on it, and I thought I’d share my thoughts in case it might help prevent someone from making the same mistakes I made. ![]()
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