Conquering the Fear of Beginning

Sometimes it seems like there's a million things to do and you're paralyzed from actually completing any of them. I feel like I have thousands of ideas whirling through my head that are haphazardly scribbled onto scraps of paper. But, that's usually the farthest any of these things get. Why? The fear of beginning.

Fellow artists, you know the feeling when you buy a new sketchbook and then you leave it blank for however long because it feels like there's so much pressure on the first thing that you put into it? Starting a new project can feel really overwhelming. It's the process of taking something from your imagination into reality... which may or may not work out the way you hope.

I feel this way often, but I've begun to realize that when I actually complete something that I've been meaning to get to it feels really awesome. Even if the project doesn't work out the way that I imagined it to in my mind.