Dare to Create! by Marie Boudon

Author:Marie Boudon [Boudon, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rocky Nook
Published: 2021-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

The Raspberry family, at the heart of Pacco’s last comic strip project, 2018.

If you’re just starting out, make it simple. There is no point in starting from zero and then saying, “I’m going to draw for an hour twice a day for fifteen years.” I suggest starting with two to three drawings per week. Even just once a week is great. That comes to fifty-two drawings a year. If you already know how to draw and how to organize your time, then doing five drawings a week is really great, that’s what I did (for my fifteen-minute routine). If there was a day when I didn’t feel like it, or I just wasn’t feeling great, I could catch up on the weekend in order to keep up with my commitment. But if you aim too high, you run the risk of just quitting after two weeks because there is too much pressure, and you will feel guilty about not having met your goal.

And finally, my last piece of advice is not to think too much, but just to act. Your mind anticipates everything. It has prejudices about every process that it’s not familiar with, and its expectations will only be negative. So my advice is to go ahead without thinking about it. Just start now!

What do you do to push beyond your limits?

I’m not trying to push beyond my limits at all costs. What I care about is getting a result that I like. I am more in the culture of the result than of the challenge. I don’t ask myself the question of my strengths and weaknesses. I ask myself, “What do you want?” If I can do it, great, and if I can’t, then I’ll try to move forward so that I can get there after all. If I admire what somebody else is doing, I will spend time immersing myself in that person’s techniques. Time is a key factor. You really have to take the time to immerse yourself in the process in order to get results. You can’t just skim across the top. What counts for me, in the end, is not so much my abilities but my mental state, the confidence that I develop. By establishing a routine, I feel that I can continue to improve in that area, and that is what interests me more than the skill that is ultimately developed.

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