Handling all the emotions through one drawing.

It’s been a week, guys.

Being creative while the world is on fire requires a special set of skills I’ve been cultivating since 2015. I completely lost it during the worst days of my depression, but now I feel like I can manage it pretty well. Or at least I try to manage it pretty well.

There’s a lot I want to write about everything that is going on in the world, how it affects both the countries I was born and currently live, how I believe it will affect the creative market and also how and what we can do to keep moving forward in making life better while others try to burn everything down. Maybe next week.

I’ve been playing this game called Tiny Glade. It’s a beautiful “build your little castle” type of game, it’s AMAZING to let go and focus in only one thing during a few minutes/hours. Games have been therapeutic to me for a while now (as in, I have months logged into different farming games, I am addicted to all of them). But Tiny Glades is also helping me with visually creating the universe I’m writing for My Prince Doesn’t Want The Crown.

Today I was spiralling, I couldn’t concentrate or set my mind in one or two things. I sat down and let the spiralling take it’s course until I thought of Tiny Glades. I’ve been slowly building some of the settings where the story happens, and I’ve done about two takes in the witch’s house. I didn’t want to play, but I needed to find something I could loosely concentrate in. So I decided to draw one of the witch’s house I had created in the game.

Drawing something with no pressure of it being beautiful or perfect was very relaxing. I played around with some fun rulers I bought months ago and never really had a chance to use. No commitment, no pressure. Using a large piece of paper in an attempt not to put too much tension on my recently healed wrists and just let the hand takes it’s course. Perspective isn’t — and never will be — my friend, so I also tried not to get too caught up on it. And just like that my mind was clear enough.

Take a deep breath, you got this.

See you!