One of the things I love most of all about drawing is the unexpected nature of it. Start working more often in cafés? Surprise musical guests will start showing up in your hair. Or sushi might come to life if you happen to be idling next to a fish market (and call me a bad vegan but I love that salty smell of ocean and deep-sea creature).
Also café-born: In the midst of a particularly perfect morning listening to french chanteuses and battling the august heat waves with a shaded window seat and a humble cup of joe, I managed to distill two Very Important Thoughts I wasn't able to put into words before, regarding the way I work.
No. 1 : The act of drawing can be a litmus test for personal Truth.
When the lines become genius, impassioned, something more than I expected at the outset - I pay special attention to whatever I'm thinking about at the time. It's usually important. Okay, it's always important. Or it's very very zen. Is that not important?
No. 2 : Dream deja vu is a good sign of properly tapped intuition.
Just what it says. It's pretty common for me to get little flashes of a previous night's dream while I work and I think now that just means I'm being subconscious enough.
Obviously these insights won't apply to everyone's art! But if you work in a pretty free-conscious style you might understand this I bet.
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