010 week 1 stop animation and stickers dinosaurs

Week 1 progress - Keanu made some stickers which we are still waiting to receive.  The stickers are drawings of different dinosaurs.  

And Keanu also made his space movie 2 with few words and special effects. You can watch it below. 

Sabotaging Myself

"Self-sabotage refers to behaviours or thought patterns that hold you back and prevent you from doing what you want to do." 

How many times have you done this? I have done it plenty, I did it this morning and few minutes back, thats the reason of m writing this post. Not saying am proud of it on the contrary I am sharing this to bring a change in my daily tasks. 

me preparing new surface to paint

 

I usually hold myself responsible for many things but I never take the responsibility of being my worst critic.I can easily motivate people I love motivating fellow creatives but the struggle to keep a vision for myself gets lost quite easily. Yes I have achieved many things but I have also pulled my foot backwards from stepping towards my dream. If you do it to or did in past how did you come out of it? Did you know The most common self-sabotaging behaviours include procrastination

After recommendations from my sister (my Mentor /Coach) i have started reading to Psycho cybernetics and also started practising Silva Method, these practices have made me realize one major thing among many - we need to be aware of our limiting beliefs, our fears and then move on. As we move on, staying aware of the patterns we push ourselves into...the things that show up over and over again we can tackle them much easily. My biggest sabotage pattern is whenever I decide of a big goal instead of working on it or writing it down I will do everything else. Small jobs will start appearing in front of me - small design projects thats show me money flowing in or has urgent requirements, then housework or the family or internet! 

My Now Tactic - 

1) Write down my goals not only my daily tasks - Read my long term goal, mid terms goals and short term goals.

2) Five mins -15 mins relax , mediate , go for walk alone

3) B aware when a task comes in -how urgently does it need my attention? and why is it urgent? Only do the task till after I have completed something from my to do list that will take me a step closer to my dream. 

4) Say/ appreciate myself/ compliment myself be a small task or big or even if its a i made good tea! or i look nice

I am over all going to be aware why am i don't what am doing!  Please share with me if you found a way to deal with self sabotage.

Hugs - Understanding! Free Download Artwork

We thought it will be for 3 months...thens surely wont last more than 6 months ...that became a year and now its more than a year we are still in lockdown in a way or another. New York times article described the feeling as Languishing feeling!  Through this Pandemic frustration and with same time many other social protests rising I created the below artwork to be shared--- to help with letting others know how important they are in my life.  If you would like to download the printable artwork click here 

Understanding...
A year of missed hugs or more....a year of not being able to see you...a year of only listening on phone about other's joys and struggles...so many things i have missed and with so many heartbreaking things happening around me i wish i could send hugs out to whole world. 

.I simply want to send hug to myself too...hope with this image i can send those hugs out to many of you if not you all. Hope you can understand so how much you are valued and loved...we can feel each other's pain and worry, cant wait to see the light shining thru.

I have alwayd wanted to join in the prompts at @ifdrawaweek but this week i couldnt resist with such a caring prompt by @anna.garssen.Thank you for sharing this prompt.

Facing the fear as an Artist

see the process on instagram

Its very easy to get caught up in the comfortable to keep on doing what you are used to with fears of different kind, no matter if you an artist or in any other field.  Once in awhile its important to pay attention to whats calling you, whats asking you to come play, what idea you have been saving tod o one day but your inner critic takes over. Because when you do face it, the growth you will experience could change you, inspire you. 

For me I had been sitting on the idea of painting decorative vehicles, especially trucks and painting a collection of surface patterns based on the truck art. I remember I even studied this in my early years of college. But i never gave it much importance, my inner critic had many things to say - like you have never drawn vehicles before (I am sure I have but I can't remember any), its been done so many times, its so time consuming you have time for this.....and many more. I am sure some of you can relate to this. 

But am glad I took this challenge as a part of my 100dayproject 2021, so I am not only writing a blog post everyday but also painting everyday and sharing my progress on Instagram.

I am so glad I painted this scooter based on Trucks of Pakistan's picture, it helped me tell my fear take a side seat.  It might not be perfect in perspective but it surely is a cheerful scooter for me to show me and remind me I can do.

If an idea keeps on nudging pay attention to it. Hope you will face your fears too and blow away the dust on the ideas that have been waiting for you to show up.

What do you to inspire yourself?

 Salvador Dali would fall asleep with a key in his hand, suspended over plate.Just as he fell asleep, the clatter of the dropped key would startle him to consciousness so he record and paint his dreamlike state.

The writer Honore de Balzac drank 50 cups of coffee a day. 

At the end of every month, Andy Warhol collected a time capsule of objects which once included a mummified foot. 

What do you to inspire yourself? To Fill the Artist's well?   I go for a walk!

Yes a walk. Walks that have no real purpose and no real goal, but are all about staring at the sky or sidewalks and talking to myself. Now i have little one talking to me and being curious, which helps most of the times to make me realize he is asking real questions. When he was around 2 years old, the walks had such different meaning to them, these slowest walks without motives were spent looking at anthills and snails crossing the sidewalks. which I hadn't done in years.

But I do have to say I love walks on my own, or just lying down on the grass or staring at the waves, walking through a forest/wild growth...... 

The more I think about it, I realize all these actually calm my chaotic mind helping me see clearly, the inspiration that was there in front of me all along. The leaves moving, the clouds changing shapes, the barefoot walks, the key is in the small details. 

Would love to know what you do to inspire yourself?

p.s. I did use to keep a sketchbook next to my pillow to record my dreams, but havent done that exercise in a while. 

Let yourself Feel!

We all protect ourselves from so many things on regular basis, so many emotions. We all have heard its ok to cry, truly its important to cry, to have an outlet, to let yourself feel but so many of us choose to ignore. 

I laugh nervously when I am put in an comfortable situation, I get angry when I feel like crying and I ignore and choose to clean or distract myself rather face something I feel can sadness.. to loose myself.  I know as an Artist I should let myself feel. I also know as I say that I also have the thoughts rising, 'I don't have time to sit down and face what am feeling' W

As soon as the wave of sadness hits I protect myself, rather than letting myself feel all those emotions. 

Now with Farmers Protest going for more than over 2 months and high human rights violation in India 

I feel a rush of emotions growing but with me falling in same cycle. 

By coincidence, I came across Skillshare class by Simona de Lea- Art For Cause: How to translate Emotion into Illustration. Her lesson about - 'choosing the topic' helped me figure out how I can use my weakness on this and turn it into my strength.  Please do check her class out here 

So this morning I did a brainstorming exercise as Simona shows in her class, to get in touch with my feelings about the protest, why was it so important, what were the reasons I felt so strongly connected to it, what are the reasons pushing me away from this. I realized for me its important to use the strengths, the positivity, my vision of the farmers more important than showing them hurt! showing them being tortured. Fro the sadness and hurt I want to depict their humbleness and focus on their growth. 

I think the key is one's vision for something, for someone which will help us not get swayed by fake news, by media... if we just feel, while listening to our instincts of why something is important. 

Let yourself Feel! 

Arora Bori 

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In Doubt of where to simply Start Here

 

100day project started yesterday, Other than painting everyday I was clear on one thing I would like to blog everyday for next 100 days. So here I am. 

Do people still blog? or they just fill so many other social media channels out there with long captions. 

There are so many ways of connecting with everyone out there that it becomes overwhelming. Do you find it overwhelming? I do? I wanted to start this back as a journal, as a space that i can acknowledge the changes, the growth and talk to myself, share few things with anyone out there who reads this. Anyone who is reading this, A big hello!!

I was mentioning my friend and fellow Artist Bhavna Handa about all the confusion over the millions of ideas I had right now and she reminded me of one very important fact.....'just START' 

So as I start this Blog series - I would like to share the same with you , if you have been sitting over an an idea a while and easily finding every excuse not to do it, its because your mind is making you think that you are going to fail at this. I would suggest to simply start, at-least you gave it a try!