Daily Traditional Fantasy Drawing Day 14

Today’s Fantasy Art Drawing

This is another study of Todd Lockwood’s Dragonlance work. I might finish it tomorrow. We’ll see.

It’s crazy how much he had an impact on me growing up. My dad had a subscription to Dragon Magazine and I always fell in love with the covers and tried to copy them. Todd Lockwood was the one who did most of those beautiful artworks.

Daily Fantasy Drawing Thoughts & Meditations

“Stop panicking.”

“Don’t worry so much.”

“It’s just one bad day. Things’ll get better.”

“Just remember to breathe.”

I feel like it’s easy to tell yourself these things. You’ve probably heard these from other people. It’s just not that simple sometimes. You hear these things and your heart still feels like it’s pumping battery acid.

You’re not panicking or anxious because you want to. You know it’s a detriment. How many times have you worried about something only for your mind to seize up and you end up making more mistakes?

Something I’ve started doing is writing down what’s worrying me. Normally I’m scared I’m going to open my laptop and there’s going to be an angry email from my boss. So, I write it down. And immediately after I write at the bottom… did that actually happen?

The annoying thing about these worries is more often than not… they’re lies. Strangers don’t care enough about you to think anything negative. Your loved ones would truly mourn and miss you if something happened to you. When you’re off the clock or not in class, your teachers/bosses aren’t obssessing over you, thinking about how you always screw everything up (I mean, they might, but at least, it’s not helpful to think that. And if so, it’s not your problem at that time). They’re just living their own lives. Trying not to think about work. Same as you.

Your body is trying to protect you from a tiger that doesn’t exist.

I think it’s helpful to think that with everything that’s going on in the world, everybody feels like this to at least some level.

I found when I stopped caring so much if I was going to make a mistake and just listened to others. To not be afraid of the worst-case scenario if I make a mistake. It was much easier to keep my brain from siezing up. I could hear everything they were saying. When I focused on the other people, seeing their stress and thinking, “how can I make them feel better?” in a genuine way not in a – “Omigod they’re mad at me!” kind of thing, it was much easier.

• Anxiety is a very mild form of narcissism (you’re always obsessing over how everything’s conspiring against you). I’m not writing this out to be mean, I promise. I just found that putting it more in that perspective was more helpful.
• The worries are lies more often than not
• The worst-case scenario is usually not that bad
• Focus on things you can control. Tiny accomplishments around the house.

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