15 Days Of Lunch Break Sketching - Art/Illustration/Drawing Blog Post

robbieallenart (62)in #undefined • 5 years ago

Creating Time For What Matters

Even us artists can complain about not having enough time to draw, but we all have the same amount of time in a day, just different priorities. Do we really need to spend our entire lunch break sat inside another building, waiting for a food order, scrolling through social media to see what we are missing out on, and talking about the weather and politics? Could we use some of that lunch hour to do a little bit extra on our creative project(s)?

It doesn't have to be our entire lunch hour of course, we need to eat and refresh ourselves and actually take a break. But what about 30 minutes? What about 15 minutes, or 10?

These minutes all add up, and you might be surprised at what you can produce in a limited time. And this of course doesn't only apply to art and drawing. I don't know about you, but when I know I only have 'X' number of minutes remaining to do something, I instantly step up, and bring myself fully to the challenge and focus all my energy as well as I can in that moment on producing whatever I can produce.

Recently I have been spending a lot of time working on my assignments, my website and painting, on top of all of the other things that need to be done. I love painting and learning but sometimes I do miss doing simple drawings with pencils, pens and lines. So I decided to try and do a quick lunch sketch/drawing every day during the week to get a bit of extra practice in, on top of my other work and study.

15 Days Of Lunch Break Ink Sketching

Below are the first 15 days of lunch break sketching that I have completed so far. None were planned in advance, I just decided minutes before what I wanted to draw and went for it. The first one is of a Finnish girl I met in a hostel in Colombia on my South America trip. You can find out a little bit more about that trip by checking out a recent blog post of mine Painting & Sketching Patagonia