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MAKE IT ENUF - Smokeys Mama

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MAKE IT ENUF -  Smokeys Mama

What do you do with those creative quirks of yours that you try over and over again to overcome? The ones that attach to you like skin, and even when you fight the beasts back and cage them, you go on about your way, relieved...FINALLY free...only to have the crafty bastards find a way to escape...

What of that thing that haunts you and gets in your way? Smokey's mama said it "Make it enuf!"

Everyone who knows me as a visual artist knows that I bitch and moan about struggling with proportioning...the bane of my existence it be. It causes me to get frustrated and discouraged when I should just be enjoying the process of drawing and be at peace. So, today, I decided to give in to the beast...to "MAKE IT ENUF" and decided to let that mental block that is always there, watching, waiting, ready to pounce - take over. I delved into PURPOSEFUL caricature for the first time in my life. Oh, no doubt, I've done the shit accidentally countless times - but this was me allowing it to happen. That's different.

This a sign that I'm capable of embracing new things...as a Taurus you KNOW that's monumental. Just in my own time. The evolutionary process is set long before you recognize it, so allow it to happen in its time. When I just want to have fun, but don't have the mindset (like today) to really "hunker down" and focus, it's always FUN to have FUN, yanno? The big eyes that haunt my planning..the "too much space" between features that nags me...can be the very things that make for new discoveries, even if they don't become that thing you "do", it's just good to know that SOMETHING can be done with it, feel me? That you have the power to MAKE IT ENUF.



(DISCLAIMER: My blogs are written during bursts of discovery and inspiration, and usually written during the last few minutes of lunch while I'm at work. Please forgive typos and unintentional grammatical errors (slang reigns supreme, don't even try to come for that) and hopefully I'll come back in and "clean up" one of these fine days. ;) The title, for instance, would be "MAKE IT ENUF!" - Smokey's Mama - but you are ONLY allowed to use letters in the title)