If You Don't Start, You Will Fail

'If You Don't Start, You Will Fail" | Daily Drawing #301

It’s simple - if the car never leaves the garage, you have zero chance of winning the race.   
Fear and perfectionism stop us from doing the things we want. If you stay frozen in your safe little place, most likely that’s where you’ll be in a year from now. You’re better off trying and falling on your stupid face than just sitting there in a sad pile of wishes. What’s the worst that can happen? You’re back where you started (which is exactly where you are now). But, what if that one thing you keep wishing for...what if even half of it came to pass? You’d be further along and better off than you are right now.

What’s holding YOU back?

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Tools:
I used a Tombow Dual Brush Pen for the rough lettering, then scanned the lettering and vector traced in Illustrator.

Tombow Dual Brush Pen
Adobe Illustrator

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Fail Until You Succeed

'Fail Until You Succeed' | Daily Drawing #156

Fortune Favors the Bold

Take initiative, amplify your inner voice, risk failure, perservere. Inspired by the TEDx talk by Ernie Parizeau.

Lately, I've been leaving my drawings in more of a rough state. I have a folder full of drawings waiting to post, but they're in an unfinished state because I don't have time to get them clean enough to post. I realized that my goal should be to keep pushing out work and not worry so much as to how polished the final outcome is. The purpose is to develop a daily practice and to explore and improve my skills. Not every drawing will get a gold star and hung on the refrigerator door.

Also, I don't have the luxury of being able to sit at the drawing table for hours on end. I have paying projects and obligations  to attended to, so I try and carve out an hour or so in the morning for this. I try to get the illustration scanned and colored by 9am. Sometimes I make it, sometimes I don't. There are other days where I'll just do a quick set in my Moleskine.

I'll go into further detail about my process in another post. There's work to be done:)

Don't Be Afraid to Succeed

Some of us are just afraid of success. Hand-lettered then scanned/traced in Illustrator. Final image composed in Photoshop. Prints and more available at Society6!