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The Artist's Toolbox: An Artist Journal
Sep 13, 2013
Another Month another Artist's Toolbox. This time I'm pulling something rather more personal out of my arsenal of tools which is my own individual way of dealing with the infuriating issue of I want to draw... but I don't know what. There are a number of ways people go around dealing with this issue. Just doodling til something pops out. Working on a list of prompts. Asking people to help give them ideas. Doing an entry for a contest.... there are lots of ways of going about finding something to draw. EH = Ernest Hemmingway My own personal way of dealing with it, makes use of the opposite problem. I have loads of ideas! But I have to go
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