Sometimes it's nice to surround yourself with art supplies.
Find the old charcoal pencils you got three birthdays ago but never cracked open and hold them up to the light for once.
Teach yourself how to blend shades red based on a book passage you read once:
A girl was tasked with drawing an egg but was given no white pencil to draw with. Instead she had to look harder and see the gray in the shadow of the table and the blue reflected off of the walls.
It doesn't matter if your picture doesn't match the image you had tucked away in your mind. Maybe you made something better. At least you made something tangible.
Don't get frustrated when you dad tells you that the teeth you were sketching look more like incandescent lightbulbs than molars.
He went to school for social work, what does he know about art?
Whatever you do, don't stop drawing. Finish your task and then decide to put it away in your notebook or display it on your wall.
It will be a test in commitment.
Make it a colorful one.
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