How much time do you usually think you need for it to be worth starting to draw? Say you have to leave the house or go to bed in an hour, two hours etc. how little time left is too little time to be worth it to get started for the day? I feel like the number is gonna be much lower than my gut feeling which tells me it's all nighter or bust desu but I think I need to hear from someone else just how wrong that gut feeling isPic unrelated
>>7971041if you are mentally ill you need hours, if you are in the good place you can do 5 hours worth of output in 1.
>>7971052just depends huh?
>>7971055it really does.
>>7971041If you haven’t drawn at all that day? Even just 5 minutes is worth it. You want to get in the habit of drawing every day no matter what.Now, in order to make real consistent progress, I think you need to be doing at least about 2 hours a day. But if you can’t hit 2 hours, don’t trick yourself into thinking “oh I’ll just take the whole day off”. Draw as much as you can anyway.
Sometimes all I have is little over an hour to draw before life drags me away, and only a few days a week. So the question should be what can you produce in a week.
>>7971041If I don't have at least an hour it feels like I'm rushing
>>7971041If I'm just doing a rough sketch, then even 10 minutes is enough. If I'm gonna start the linework, then I'd wait until I have more than 4 hours available.
>>7971041having a short time limit makes it EASIER to draw. If you know you have to go out in 2 hours, your brain will want to draw and squeeze as much as you can out of that time. If you have infinite time because of no responsibilities, then its difficult to start drawing because there's nothing forcing you to
>>7971501Yeah. My biggest problem isn't not having enough time, but the difficulty of starting (procrastination is real)One of the strategies I've picked up to fight procrastination is to work in 15 minute bursts. I set up a timer, tell myself it's just 15 minutes, and start working. Then I chain them once I get the momentum going.It can be surprising how much can be done in 15 minutes. Of course, that's 15 minutes of intense working, not sitting around staring at a canvas and pretending to work.
>>7971041Since you specifically mentioned drawing for the first time within the day, I'd say at minimum 1 hour plus. Ideally about 90 minutes. I find that my brain takes some time for it to switch into that art gear, unless I've been having consistent long drawing sessions for the past few days. Otherwise, if you've already managed to get into that art gear earlier in the day then even 30 minutes is a good enough amount of time to get something "decent" done. Be it a sketch or something just a bit more complex. I've recently made some slight changes to my daily schedule to wake up earlier and have at least 2 hours to draw before I have to go to work. It's been going pretty well desu.
