Two thoughts that help me build something bigger.

Building a Youtube channel, finishing a longer comic, well, even finishing one page of comic can feel like a lot of work if I think of it as a whole. I'd think - It will take too much time. Too much work. It's too hard. I shall do it when I have more time and energy. And then I put it off and I don't start. Time passes. 

I've been working on getting more creative work done by tweaking my mind. When it comes to producing Youtube videos, I don't think of the next 5-10 videos ahead. I only think of the next one. If I think "It's too hard", I tell myself that "I only have to make it at least 3 minutes. Only 3 minutes long! I can do that!" Of that's too hard, I tell myself to just go to a cafe and write down the idea for the video. I only think about, and do that one small thing for the day. Then, on another day, I do the next part, one small thing at a time. And then eventually, I look back and I've done a whole video. And then only after that I work on the next one.

And oh yes, I combine that with one other thought - Seeing it as part of my business, rather than a hobby. When it comes to work, I meet my deadlines. If it's a hobby, I put it off until I'm free. 

So the two thoughts are "focus on one small thing at time" + "see it as work, not a hobby."

So that's how I've been approaching the Youtube videos so far. I started to do them more regularly since July 2023 and gosh there are so many now. So I've been trying this and this has been working for me. I've not applied this to drawing comics pages and perhaps that's why I'm still rather sporadic about that! Do you have something similar or an alternative thought that helps you get around to building bigger things? Please share:)

Anyways, here are 3 Youtube videos on illustration and art that I've done recently. Hope this helps and thanks for watching!