How I Draw My Way Out Of A Loud Head

Nine moments where a pencil did what my mind couldn't — quieted a loud head, one small sketch at a time. Each one traced to the actual psychology behind why it worked.

For anyone whose mind won't stop running, and hasn't tried drawing their way out of it.

What's inside:

• Give the noise one object to chase

• Draw faster than you can judge it

• Let the water decide something for you

• Get it out of your head and onto the page

• Give the day somewhere to land

• Give your hands the job your phone has been doing

• Look long enough to actually see it

• Let color say what you can't

• Let rest look like something you made

Each one is a short piece of prose on what happened and why it worked, ending with a five-minute practice you can actually do.

13 pages.

The page doesn't need to be good. It just needs you to have been there.

— dhanya · harbor