D: Drawing

Can you believe these cuties are real?!!

It's a tiny sea slug called "leaf sheep". 🍃🐑

My husband saw me drawing a leaf sheep, and he thought I was drawing a Studio Ghibli character, haha.

Leaf sheep was our final drawing project for the theme "cute animals from photos" at the Kawaii Drawing Club® (next up – patterns! 😃).

Here is the art I made for the tutorial for our KDC members (I had a bit of fun with the background, hehe).

And here is the AMAZING work from our KDC community! 😍

R: Resource

We already started working on patterns at KDC, and one of the members shared is epic resource by Lisa Glan.

Check it out! No affiliation – just sharing a really helpful resource. 😊

🔗 "Pattern Design Toolkit" by Lisa Glan

I hope it helps you to create something beautiful.

A: Affirmation

If you do any kind of creative work, you know the pain of having to choose between "other" activities (like work-work, house work, adult responsibilities 😂).

And the desire to CREATE!

Sometimes, the pain becomes too great, and I feel the need to write it out, so that I can sort through my feeling (I use "free writing" to do this).

So I did that on Saturday, and what came out is a clear message to do the creative work FIRST – before getting "busy".

So here is this week's affirmation:

Create first.

Now I gotta remember this next time I reach for my phone to check emails at the start of the day. 😆

Create first – then emails. 🔥

W: Wonder

Here is another tendency I observe.

Say, I have 5 things to do for the day, and 1 of them is a "frog".

Call the bank... write a document... 😅

Sometimes, it might even be a thing I enjoy, but is hard to start.

For example, exercising or practicing graffiti for my personal project.

So, I would "circle around" those tasks, doing other things (while subconsciously avoiding the hard thing – it's called "buffering").

This is soooo ineffective.

Do the dang thing, gain the energy release, and THEN get to the easier stuff.

So here is a question to wonder about:

I wonder... what task am I avoiding the most today? 😆

And do that one first.

Have a beautiful week! ❤️

With love,
Tatyana

PS: here are 3 more ways we can create together:

Get your copy of the 21 Day Challenge to learn how to create your own kawaii characters
Join our Facebook group to share your drawings and receive guidance with your 21 Day Challenge work
Check out my YouTube channel for drawing tutorials, Procreate tips, and mindset chats

Let's connect!