How Do You Motivate Yourself to Draw?

Thank you!! 💜

That's so good, I love when I see friends' styles influence each other. I definitely learn best by looking at others too, I really like doing those "draw this in your style" things, or those challenges where everyone has to draw the same concept. Ooh or like art telephone, where each person only gets to see the drawing done right before them in a chain of drawings. I also used to get really inspired reading manga magazines like Shoujo Beat. There's just something really inspiring about seeing how someone else's mind interprets something visually.

And I'm glad your friend convinced you to get a sketchbook! I have a whole storage bin full of my old ones in my closet, and then any time I do a loose one I just kinda cram it out of order into a file folder. 😂 Sketchbooks definitely help me with organization.

What motivates me to draw today are my Pinterest folders, but what motivaded myself in the beginning were my characters. Yes, I make characters and stories all the time (at least before, now I'm not so sure) and I wanted to know how they were physically.

My Pinterest folders are full of creative images, mainly costumes and other creative clothes, but they also have drawing tutorials and other things like that.

I think I need to find a stronger motivation for drawing, because I don't draw every time. Actually, I have moments that I don't draw at all, what can be days or in the worst cases, months, but that's not the case now.