I have a really hard time divorcing myself from the images I put in my sketchbook though — everyone knows the worst thing you can do in a sketchbook is be precious about the drawings.

I can’t — and I’ve tried — relax about what the page looks like, which is bad.

My workaround for that is to draw over things until I like how the page looks, then move on. For instance, if I make an ugly drawing I’ll just draw right over it. Or I’ll layer multiple fast sloppy drawings (like say at figure drawing) to make something more interesting on the page.

It’s still a bad habit, but I’m terrible at color and composition, so it’s a way to practice those a little bit, say adding a blue ink drawing over this pencil drawing to make an interesting combination, and not making the page mortifying to look at at the same time.

Relaxing is a thing that’s pretty hard for me.