Small Break Through

I sat down for the first time tonight in what feels like forever and sketched. I tried my hand in cartoon faces. I REALLY liked two of them. I need to just loosen up and let the images form.

My next step is to turn these heads into characters that have bodies and do things like give flowers to someone or play an instrument.

I hope I will continue to have small break throughs and create more and more of my own art using my own images. And maybe someday they won't be cartoons or abstract images... but I think this is a good place for me to start!

What's next?

So I struggle with my own artistic images... who's to say they have to be realistic? I doodle all the time with abstract ideas and I like those. I like creating abstract designs, and people that have seen them tend to like them too.

It's still fear that is holding me back... fear and money.  The thought of painting glasses with abstract images isn't the struggle... the fact that they may not sell... that's the struggle. Everyone would like to get rich quick with one great idea (at least at some point in your life... don't try and deny it.) When my kids have to wear hand-me-down clothes and can't seem to get enough food at dinner time I have to think long and hard on how I spend every penny.

How do I push myself forward and out of this fear? I can't sell copy-righted images... I can't create my own images that I'm happy with. I still struggle and I don't know where to go next.