why i went missing

Andrea Joseph’s Sketchblog

I’ve been banging on about this drawing funk for some time. Now, I’m not saying that this is the only factor, but it is certainly a BIG one. Recently, I’ve had to make some adjustments to my lifestyle. A couple of health scares, or warnings, have made me realise that things could not go on as they were and that I needed to make changes.

I’ve had to change my sleep patterns and go to bed at a more civilised time – rather than staying up all hours, drawing through the night. And, I’ve had to get up off my arse. My ever increasing arse. Since I started drawing I’ve just drawn obsessively. I couldn’t tear myself away from my sketchbooks. But, I’ve done absolutely no exercise in these last few years. Really. Nothing.

So, finally, I’ve decided (well, my body did) that it was time to get up out of the chair and to start moving. It’s funny, people often commented about how my drawings had such a stillness to them. It makes sense really, I was sat still, very still, whilst making them.

It feels good to be moving about and I hope that in time this view, the one I’ve been looking at for so long, will get slimmer. However, there has been one BIG side effect; the blank page. The dreaded blank page.