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Kesh

An Artist, Illustrator and an Educator sharing his Thoughts and Advice on How people can Learn Art in an Easier Way through his Online Art Programs and YouTube Channels. He is the creator of the Popular Art Challenge '100 Days of Sketching' that is being participated by thousands of people from all around the world every year.

My Dream Project

1) Creating Characters for my Dream Project

I’ve had this epic story in my head that I’ve been dying to tell for the past 5 years – but have put it off out of fear and lack of skills to execute it (it’s mostly fear actually)

But I’ve finally taken the leap,

Realised I can never make a perfect project – but only a real one.

So I’m making a 21 page Comic surrounding a small story in this world – that’s part of a much larger collab project I’m part of 💪

And I’ve started designing characters for it.

So meet Kumar 👇

“Kumar, born with a curse in world filled with ancient spirits, waring tribes and a kingdom of the new order – is a young boy who dreams of doing just one thing – Own a piece of land to setup his own shop selling antique spirit stones and singing stories.

But fate has a different plan when he is entrusted as the carrier of a mysterious relic to be delivered to his rightful guardian – with the whole might of ‘Kingdom of The New order’ chasing him.”

This is not the first time I’ve drawn this character. I’ve been fine-tuning this character over the years.

Here’s how it evolved 👇

(Kumar – 2018)

(2018)

(2022)

(2018 vs 2025)

I’ll be talking about this more in the coming newsletters and on my Instagram – watch out! 

2) The Practice Trap

The Practice Trap is a common place most artists get stuck in. 

It’s a trap where an artist, despite having a dream project to work on – endlessly spends their time learning and mastering every skill out there so that they are “ready enough” to do their dream project. 

The bad news: they will never feel good enough and the project never gets made. 

Practicing without purpose is like an athlete training their body with no goal. 

One has to orient their practice to serve the game that they going to play;

– A basketball player needs to train for basket ball
– ⁠and football player – for football

The practice changes according to the sport and the goals they want to achieve.

So what can one do? 🤔

• Pick a project 
• ⁠practice for it specifically, instead of broadly. 

Ex: Don’t practice anatomy. practice anatomy to draw that character from your comic well. 

Here’s a little short that explains it well 👇

3) Favourite Quote of the Week

“Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.”

– Bruce Garrabrandt

That’s it.
I’ll see you again next week 🙂

Best,
Kesh.

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Kesh

An Artist, Illustrator and an Educator sharing his Thoughts and Advice on How people can Learn Art in an Easier Way through his Online Art Programs and YouTube Channels. He is the creator of the Popular Art Challenge '100 Days of Sketching' that is being participated by thousands of people from all around the world every year.

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