Today’s 3 Ideas are all about; 1. The kick of Creating and the super fun creative exercise you can do.2. Why art is not just for your own pleasure.3. A quote that tells you the kind of projects you need to do. 1) The “Kick” of Creating I recently came across a wonderful piece of

1) On Consistency People say “you have to be Consistent” in order to get results. In art, the gym or life. “want to get better at drawing, be consistent!!” they say…. But why? 🤔 • Anything of value takes time to grow.• and growth takes continued work.• For the work to be continual, you need consistency (the

Here are 2 very simple life lessons I’ve learned last week 😌 1) 2 Hrs a day I noticed that I was consistently hitting my weekly goals and targets for projects. And I was asking myself the things I did to get there. 🤔 Apparently, it was just one thing. 1.

1) Daily Drawings of the Week Here are some of the daily sketches and Drawings from the Week.  Each took about 10-15mins ⌛ Now, how do I do this… 🤔 2) My Drawdaily Routine This is my current daily drawing routine 👇 1. Wake up, do my ‘morning things’ (like brushing my

1. An Easy Drawing Routine Here’s a simple straight forward ‘Daily Drawing’ Routine you can follow: (If you want to Draw Daily) For 100 Days 💯 1. Draw for 10mins a Day2. First thing in the Morning 3. What to Draw? – create a Pinterest board of the kind of art

1. Drawing of the Week Here’s a little drawing I did from the Drawing Desk. 👇 I’ve been experimenting with more realistic styles of drawing Characters and this is the first step in that direction. 👣 I’m in the process of coloring it now – will share the results later.

1. 100 Art Tips So, I’ve started a new mini series on Instagram called ‘100 Art Tips’. And it’s all about – you guessed it – 100 Simple, Actionable Art Tips ✏️ Here are the first Two episodes 👇 Episode 1 : My Favorite Sketchbook Exercise  Episode 2 : How

1. I’m Back from a Break I took a month and a half long break because your’s truly got married and apparently its a lot of work to pull off an Indian Wedding. 😮‍💨 I’d like to keep my personal life personal but at the same time, share some aspects

1. How to Reinvent your Art? And yourself as an Artist. 🤔 Here’s my take (and I’m actively doing this) 👁️ Create/ Recreate an Artistic vision for your work. Define what does it look like in 3-5 years and what would make you happy. ❌ Stop doing things the old

1. YOU are the Style How does one find their style in art? 🤔 To answer that, how does one NOT find their style? • By doing what everyone does.  By definition – “Style” is the way of doing something.  It necessarily doesn’t have to be unique, but uniqueness is

1. A Simple Practice for Artists What can one do when life gets hard? When things are too overwhelming for you to handle? 😩 Obligations takes aways the energy you have in a day. How does one make sure to get the IMPORTANT things done?🤔 “Make Before you Manage” ✍️

1. The Artist Principles What drives my art and creation?  What are it’s foundational Principles? Why do I share what I know? These are some questions I’m asking myself as I ‘reinvent’ who I am as an artist and what I do.  Why do this? 🤔 – I often get

1. 4 Ways to Make Inktober Easy Inktober is a 31 Day Inking Challenge people do all over the world in the month of October. 🗓️ And Here are 4 ways to make Inktober Easy. 👇 2. The Video Here’s a video of me going a tad in-depth on the

1. Daily Sketching It’s been 31 days or so since my yearly 100 days of Sketchingroutine started. 💯 Here’s what I’ve been doing.  – I’ve been drawing daily. Not strictly on the prompt list – But on random things, like for my upcoming new ‘art camp’ (more on that later)–

1. On Having a Blog One of the best decisions I’ve made 4 years ago was to start an online blog and write consistently.  – Thus this – newsletter was born. 💌 Why having a Blog as an Artist is a good decision? 🧠 It helps you think better –

1. 100 Days of Sketching So, I’ve been drawing daily for the past 2 weeks or so as part of my yearly “Ritual” – ‘100 days of Sketching’.  I’ve been doing this for 5 years or so now and I approached things a little different this time. I gave myself

I recently Turned 30. And I wanna share 30 Life Hacks I’ve learned along the way. 👇 1. If you wanna get good at something – Do it 100 Times over 100 days. 💯 2. Buy a 1L Metal Water bottle and drink out of it 3x in a day.

1. How I Organize my Life/Work Whenever I’m feeling lost or disoriented in life (and I often do) trying to choose which path to take or what projects to pursue, I come back to my 3-Step System called the D.A.C Method To get me back on track. (I made this

1. The Artist Routine The Word Routine comes from the French word ‘Route’, which translates to ‘Road’ or ‘the way’  Routine is the way of an artist. It’s needed in an artist. Why? 🤔Because Art is hard and unpredictable. It’s has an element of chaos to it. So when you

1. The 2 Simple Productivity “Hacks” If I had to pick the 2 Most “bang for buck” hacks to stay a ‘Productive Artist’ (aka getting a lot of $#!t done) Its these… 1. Do the most important thing first thing in the morning • Write it down the night before.•

Here’s a 3 Step Solution to cure ‘creative burnout’ 1. Simple Solution for Burnout? The Solution for burnout is very simple (and most make it complex). Step 1 – Take a break from your Art (7-21 days) Step 2 – Come back to your work/art/drawing project. (And if you don’t

That Changes Lives. 1. The Ultimate Productivity Routine for Artists What would it look like if you want to get quality art projects done? 🤔 (I’m working on an in-depth video on this, so this letter would be a 2 min version) Here’s what mine looks like now. 👇 1. Scratch

Sounds Simple. But Its not. How do you become Consistent with your Art Practice and Improve bit by bit? 1. What is ‘Consistency’ & Why be consistent? The Word “Consistent” means ‘To Act or Do something in the same way’ Ok, Why Pursue it? 🤔 Large results are a combination

I wish I knew when I was 20. 1. 30 Life Hacks I came across this post a while ago which I found to be very interesting.  Here’s “30 Life Hacks I wish I knew at 20” by – Ben Meer. 2. Draw Slowly If you want a simple trick

A Better System of Goal Setting? 1. 90 Day Goals for Art We all start the Year with big dreams and goals. But 6 months in – You are not even close to what you aimed at or have abandoned your pursuit completely. So the Problem of “Effective Goal Setting?”

Success lies in doing the little things well. 1. “Basics” are not Basic The more I learn, the more I realize there’s an inherent power in Doing the Basic Things Well.  Fun Story – There was a time when Newborn babies dying right after birth was really high.  Doctors wondered

1. Do This for 1000 Nights Here’s a little piece of advice on Writing from Ray Bradbury on getting better at your craft (which can apply to any art) 👇 “Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row….before you go

Here’s how 👇 1. You Need 10 Days I used to think I need a lot of time to change things.  But apparently, 10 Days is all you need to make something substantial.  I recently finished my ‘Kreate10’ challenge.. Where I made 10 illustrations in 10 days…🤯 I was mind

A Challenge to Act on your Dreams. 1. Don’t Let your Dreams Die We all have Dreams that we haven’t acted on. Dreams of making things,Dreams of being someone,Dreams of Doing something.  But as years pass by, so do most of these unlived Dreams.😔 The scariest thing one can face

1. Talkers Block “Writers Block is a myth”  Says Seth Godin, the multiple best-selling author of 19+ books and a seasoned entrepreneur.  When people come up to him and say that they have “writers block”, He says: “Nobody has ‘talkers block’” It’s not like you are blocked from speaking today.

Lessons from 10+ Years of Making “Content” 1. 10 Lessons, 10 Years Here’s are some things I’ve learned from 10+ years as a content creator. 1. Don’t Make Content – rather Document Cool things or the “Making of such Cool things”.2. “Do” before you talk about “Doing” stuff3. Make for

I’ve wasted a year of my life doing nothing (from early 2022 – early 2023). So here’s my 1. Guide to Wasting your Life 1. Don’t have goals and wing it. It’s key. 🔑2. Always spend time thinking, do nothing. 3. Think small, Act Big. 4. Don’t Aim Big. Think incrementally. 🔎5.

1. Cartooning Expressions Last week, I drew a lot of Cartoon Expressions. And these were drawn with a simple method I came up with called the ‘Emoji Expressions Method’. 😲 The Idea is, you can draw complex expressions with a simple emoji. Here’s an Episode that’s all about it. 👇

The challenge that changed my Life. 1. 100 Days of Sketching This is what my art used to look like. 👇 This is how it looks like right now. 🤯 And the Difference between these two drawings is ONE Practice Philosophy that changed my life. And It’s ‘100 Days of

So that you can Build a Cult around your work. 1. How I Built my ‘Personal Brand’? How did I build my  🎥 570k subscriber base in YouTube 📷 203k on Instagram  💌 45k people on my Newsletter? Here’s the Framework I’ve used 👇 • Talk about what you know.

The Thing you want might take 10 Years. Don’t Overthink. Start Now. 1. The 10 Year Rule All the (Meaningful) things I’ve ever gotten have taken approx 7- 10 years to see results from it. ⌛ 🎥 Youtube – Started in 2010, Picked up in 2018. ✏️ Drawing – Started

Here’s an Idea that could help creators 👇 1. Be a Consumer before you are a Creator “Nobody likes my Art” “Nobody Sees it”  “How can I get attention for my work?” “How can I build a product that others love”? Simple. Be a Consumer of the thing you want

1. Cartooning Faces Cartooning faces is my “comfort drawing exercise”.😌 The more I do it, the better I feel and the more I discover what “art” is through this little practice. We just finished creating my ‘Cartooning Faces MasterClass’ that goes along with my ebook that I’ve made and I’ve been

What do you do when you are lost in Life?  Or can’t solve a specific problem when you don’t know how to solve it. 1. Ask the Right Question A good friend/mentor of mine, Calin Yablonski (also a student of Drawing Camp 😉) shared a very important question that he

1. Perfectionist vs Procrastinator Most people label themselves as Perfectionists, when in reality, they are just Procrastinators. The common (Local) definition of a Perfectionist is: “Someone who doesn’t start things or complete things because they just want it ‘DONE RIGHT’” This is NOT Perfectionism. It’s Procrastination. (Caused by Fear) Steve

1. Commercial ART vs Personal ART What’s the difference between both. 🤔 I heard the following definition in a podcast and it was interesting. Commercial art – One that is made with OTHERS in mind. Personal Art – One that is Made for Oneself. Neither is good nor bad. But

1. The Keys to a Good Life I’ve always wanted the “answers”. I wanted to have things “Figured out”. But I couldn’t. 😑 I soon realized that the key to getting good answers are in asking good ‘Questions’! So, lesson learned –  “Want good answers? Ask good questions” 🧠 Most

What’s a SIMPLE way to Build Confidence? In art and in life? 1. What is Confidence? I think I’m pretty confident when I sit down to draw. That’s probably because I’ve done this over a 1000 times. Over many years. I still feel nervous, still feel scared. But I’m also

1. Good Things take Time So Stick with it.  The Difference between these two drawings is a year.. 1 Year Before 1 Year Later (Now) These two drawings are made by a good friend/mentor of mine, Calin. He’s also a student of Drawing Camp, with whom I had the chance

1. You don’t “NEED” Talent to Draw? This is a common belief that people hold. (And that I held for many years) “I need to be BORN with talent to draw” It’s Not true. The EVIDENCE says otherwise. Yet, why do we have this ‘Belief’?    • When People See

1. I took my own Advice. I was finding it hard to find the time/motivation to draw lately.  I was in a bit of funk. 😵 More like paralysis by analysis on “what to draw” Then I found the magical secret that helped me get out of the funk and

1. How to think about your life. DJ Patil, a former US Chief Data Scientist used to have these four lines written in a card. “Dream in Years, Plan in Months, Evaluate weekly, Ship Daily” Dream in Years: Think long-term and imagine the life you want to live.  Plan in

1. The Yearly Review Before we even set goals, it’s important to review the past. “Those who fail to study history are often doomed to repeat it” – Some wise guy. Here’s how I review the Last year.    • I look at and list all the things that has

The new year is in the horizon and the next couple of newsletters are all gonna be about my thoughts on how to WIN 2024. 1. How to LOSE 2024 If we wanna WIN something, it’s best to define ways to screw it up. So here’s how you lose 2024

1. What I’ve learned in 2023? Here are some of the lessons I’ve learned in 2023. 1. Have 3 clear goals that are ambitious and specific for the year. Vague goals = Vague results. 2. 10 Year Rule – Most meaningful things take AT LEAST a decade to come to

1. My Manga/Comic Pages I’ve been working on my Manga/comic for the past week and here are some pages from it.. I’m putting all my effort into making each page look good on this 21 page Manga and I’m so happy with how it’s turning out.  But as I was

1. Make YOUR Art. Don’t Pander Make the kind of ART you want to make. ✏️ And it will attract a certain kind of people. But you can’t decide who it will attract. You only have control over your work. Not the people it attracts.  The moment you change your

1. Make Art for Yourself Make Art for Yourself. Never care about what others might “think” about it.  Don’t listen to the words of others and their approval of what your work “should” and “shouldn’t”. It’s their expectations. It’s not on you. The more you listen to others, the more

1. Stop Being Busy? One of the things I try to do when things are not going my way is to “Fill up my calendar” 🗓️ Aka Take up a lot activities that makes me “feel” like moving towards a goal. Example – “oh no! I’m getting fat!!”  My response

1. How I Study Art? I have a simple and a straightforward process. A. Define exactly what I want to get good at? 📝 Ex – Get better at drawing Anime Faces B. Research and collect Info on a simple process to achieve this goal.🔎 C. Draw 10 – aka

1. Understanding Manga Style I spent the entire week trying to understand and study the manga style. And I’ve noticed some Key Principles / Techniques; 1. Angular shape language- manga in general uses very Angular shapes as a base. 2. Big eyes! – this is a no Brainer. Make em

1. Don’t be a Donkey My second comic of the ‘100 Days of Making Comics’ challenge is done and I’ve printed it out. Here’s how it looks 👇 Feel free to read the Full Comic Here. (60 sec read) 2. Comic BTS I’ve been posting Daily 1 MIN Reels on

1. 5 Tips for your First Comic Here are 5 things I wish I knew when I was making my first comic. 1. Start small and finish (this is the only mantra you need to follow. There’s so much wisdom in the word “finish” that I missed when I first

1. Comic Making Update (week 1) So, I’ve embarked on a journey to make a Comic book in 100 days. It has 10 chapters (5-15 pg each chapter) and I’ve just completed the ‘Final Pencils’ for chapter 1. 💪 It’s 12 pages long and here’s a collage of all the

1. How to Make your First Comic I wrote a guide for myself on ‘How to go about making Comics (or any Project)’ Here it is (4 Min Watch) https://youtu.be/HbC3COF33k0 Summary 1. Make your ‘First Draft’ Version in 5 Hrs. 2. Make Better. 3. Repeat for all projects.  2. 61

1. 100 Days of Sketching 2023 This year’s ‘100 Days of Sketching’ is in and here is the Prompt List for the year. Incase you don’t know what this challenge is about, It’s all about this; Rules: 1. Draw everyday for 6 mins a day. 2. Draw for 100 Days.

1. The Master Artist Mindset What separates the really “successful” from the not so “successful” one? (Successful = Personal and commercial satisfaction ) Well, according to learning researchers like Carol Dweck, it’s all in having one of the two mindsets. Fixed Mindset – Believing that one’s skill are innate and

1.What do you do when it FAILS? When your project ‘attempt’ fails. Not the end result, just the process. What do you when you loose your project file, the first draft of your comic/novel or your creation in a 🔥 accident? Here’s what you can do This applies for: –

1. “Don’t Stop” – a 2D Short Film So I made my second animated short film. But this is my first animation because.. I did most of the Animation myself and the entire project had no professional help.💪 Just me, my buddies and an iPad.  So here’s the film. (It’s

1. The Art of Business of Art It took me a long time to make money with my art. And I would attribute the lack of success for holding certain un-resourceful beliefs. Here’s a list. None of these turned out to be true. 1. “Making money is ‘bad’ because you

1. “So you want to be an Artist?”  Don’t. Don’t be an artist if you want the fame, the recognition or money. If you want to show others what you can do, don’t. If you want to hold a ‘cool‘ artistic skill that makes you feel above others, don’t. If

1. I Tried Learning Blender in 5 Hours I’ve always wanted to learn ‘Blender’ – a Software for creating cool 3D Art and animations.  Why?  So I can eventually install it as part of my process to create animated short films eventually or at the least, have the knowledge to

1. 3 Steps to Draw Everything When I started to learn drawing seriously, I started looking up specific tutorials on how to draw things like Forms, Perspective, Gesture and Anatomy. And I thought that would help me. It did, but it mostly didn’t. Because I lacked a cohesive framework that

1. The Emoji Expression Project I started a side project last year where I drew emojis as ‘cartoon faces’. It seemed like a fun way to practice drawing Faces, Expressions and Design Principles all in 1 go. I just got back on it and intend to do all 108 expressions

1. Drawing Daily Cartoons Here’s what I’ve been upto – Practicing the act of Cartooning on the daily. But in a slightly better way – by creating a character on whom I can try different things on. Here’s the one I created last week to practice posing.👇 2. Scratch your

1. How to ACTUALLY learn Art? I have made a video in the past detailing the steps involved in learning ‘Art’. https://youtu.be/jFidxkBqIEw This is good if you want a ‘map’ to get from point A to point B. 🗺️ But this is not enough. I’ve lately learned the very definition of

1. What Brush Do I use? Here’s a little blog on the brushes I use 😁 https://youtu.be/X2NVgRFzPaI 2. Pick better Projects that are worth the pain If there’s one thing I’ve learned from trying to make animated short films. It’s this.  It’s Hard.  Whether it’s a small project or a

1. Carpe Diem I didn’t know this before. There’s this ‘Stoic’ principle called ‘Carpe Diem’ – which roughly translates to ‘Seize the day’. And the whole idea is this, You’ll only get ONE shot today. Just one and then its gone and lost forever. What will you do with it?

1. The Soul Tiger Here’s a breakdown of a recent Animated Illustration that I did. It started with some exploration sketches on how ‘Tigers’ look like. 🐯 And then I landed on one POSE based on what I learned from the sketches. Did some color Tests… Then came the inks

1. How to actually Sketch I recently did an illustration piece for which I wanted to breakdown some of it’s process and show one of the most important phase of its creation. The Sketch ✏️ The pro tip right here is this – Sculpt with your pencil. Think like a