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DRAW A FISH

The fish theory is weird but maybe it works?

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Jenny Lawson (thebloggess)
Jun 08, 2026
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So recently I read that if you are having artists block and can’t think of what to draw you should draw a fish. The theory is that drawing a fish kicks you out of your creative block for some reason, so I drew several fish but I didn’t like how they looked and then I suddenly had a hard time drawing fish and then I got creative fish block, which I didn’t even know was a thing.

So instead of showing you those I pulled out another drawing I did a few years ago that I never finished and I finished it. And it’s quite fishy, so I think this counts.

“Don’t confuse ‘different’ with ‘wrong’. Strange can be extraordinary.”

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