Devious Journal Entry

Moods and creativity are inextricably linked.  I'm happy to say that my mood has begun to lift now that I know I will be able to leave this horrid apartment I presently live at with all of its myriad issues, some that were never even fixed for years.  Even just the promise of leaving this awful place has made me want to draw, to sketch, to pull my tablet out and work on projects I haven't yet managed to finish.

It's a wonderful feeling, this wash of creative energy.  The only problem seems to be what to work on first.  Or focusing when I do select a project to work on.  It's like being awash in a river and being swept downstream by rapids, grasping at a rock of thought just long enough to be pulled away by the force to the next.  Occasionally, you grab a branch or a rock and can cling long enough to figure out something to do before it's on to the next.

By finding some of my older work, though, it really helped me grasp onto some ideas and even help grow new ones.

Old art can do that.  Even if you feel embarrassed about it, it can help you move forward, show you an idea you'd like to try again, or maybe re-do better, or just remind you how much you loved drawing at that specific point in time.  <3