I've gotten familiar with such advice. I like to think and feel at the same time. I consider those two as fun things because they recharge me. Well, not all the time. It's the over-thinking and over-feeling that usually kill the fun.
I love it if what I create reflects my thoughts and feelings. It becomes more personal, real and original. But when I realise I am putting too much thinking and too much feeling into it, it starts losing its authenticity and vulnerability. It's like a photograph with too much (Instagram) filters. We barely see its beauty beneath the layers of over-editing.
Today I watched Jeremy Cowart's (one of my inspirations) creative process via Periscope. I liked how relaxed he sketched, brushed, and painted his works. It seemed aimless but that's the whole point: to relax our creative mind.
So I decided to give it a shot.
I turned on my soothing playlist on Spotify, grabbed a few of my paint brushes, my pencil, my drawing pens, markers, and swept my blank sketch paper. I decided to fully trust my hand and fingers, without thinking too much of how this piece would turn out to be in the end. I quit worrying about aesthetics, about colours, about shapes, about what makes sense. No eraser, no undo button. I even closed my eyes each time my mind began to 'plan' the next strokes or movement.
It did not end up looking like a masterpiece, of course. I also won't print and hang it up on my wall. The highlight of this whole process is emotional-therapy. I enjoyed it very much. It was relaxing, stress-free, and reviving. I definitely will make this therapeutic doodling as a habit.
((a little bit 'post-doodle photoshop' won't hurt, right?))
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