I’ve spent my entire career obsessively trying to ‘learn how to draw’ when I should’ve just been drawing. Always thinking ‘I just need to get a little better… and then I’ll start working on (insert any of a hundred personal projects)’

The fact is that I’ve been good enough since my teens- and would’ve improved so much more rapidly had my study been in the service of any of those projects- and not in the dozens of sketchbooks pilled in my closet.

Lesson: Don’t use ‘learning’ as an excuse to avoid ‘doing’.