All these dark evenings make me want to turn on Netflix already at 19pm, and do nothing but lay on my couch for three or four hours until bedtime comes around. And what is worse, I want to do that, while mindlessly scrolling throw my phone, because one screen at a time just doesn’t cut it anymore. I apparently need TWO devices to take my mind away from the shitshow of a year that has been 2020.
So I have been trying to cut my screen time from the embarrassing 6 hours per day down to the still embarrassing 4. In order to do so, I cannot just watch Netflix… no. That would still leave a couple of brain cells left to do the thinking and that is what we do not want. So instead, I doodle. I have been filling an old notebook with little drawings, some of them are too ugly to share here, but some others turned out nicely enough. So here’s some of them:
They are not much, but they help keep me sane, and what else can you ask for in time like these? What is something you are doing to help with your mental health? I would love to know ❤
these are so amazing! thank you for sharing with us.
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these are beautiful isabel! i would have to say, the line arts are my favourite, plus the table set-up (at the bottom row).
as for me, i’ve been trying to read more books… although it doesn’t take me off my screen because i only have ebooks. also, same as you i’ve been trying to draw recently (and again, i still end up using my phone to redraw/digitalise pieces from my sketchbook).
aside from those two, talking with my friends or just getting what i’m thinking out of my system helps a lot for me.
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These works are amazing
Actually I’m suffering from some kind of mental illness problems, and I just find out that ‘drawing’ really do help me.
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Oh wow these doodles are amazing! I feel so guilty as well about spending so much time on social media 😦 but sometimes it’s the only thing that can make me feel like I can escape the reality of deadlines.
Glad I stumbled across your lovely blog!
Louise x
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