I had the audacity to turn your attachment 
      into a format I could respond to. See beneath. 
      It is a format I have always enjoyed,  perhaps 
        more from my own point of view than the one intended 
        by my student. 
      1. It reminded me of an exercise my dear pal and colleagueGeorge Hardie https://www.fulltable.com/vts/aoi/h/hardieg/menugh.htm 
        would give our MA students as a sort of limbering 
        up.  It was a sort of game and he offered a bottle of wine to the winner. It develops mental alacrity and graphic skills at speed without pretending to the aesthetic / monumental. 
         
        On a single sheet of paper  briefly indicate a grid 
        perhaps six by six. It can be precise or vestigial. 
        On the command “GO” draw as many different and individual objects in that grid before the time’s up (six minutes say) For personal exercises it would be six by six but for all the fun of the group, George made it ten by ten. 
      This is an exercise you could try with individual abstract sketches each of which must be different. Like the attachment beneath They may tell a story, they may 
        be purely a formal game you play from left to right or 
        up and down the grid.  The drawing you sent me made me remember this and I wondered whether it might amuse you to try. 
      2. I know only what I have seen of your work but know  
        about your bespoke clothes business in Ukraine. I was guessing you have a keen sense of the  Pattern and the flow of the surface. hence exploring the spatial and formal dynamics of pattern making might be profitable to developing your art. 
        https://www.fulltable.com/vts/p/pattern/menux.htm 
       
      The overarching point of this is to relax but get used to 
        expending energy over a short burst of time. And testing  
        yourself with clear limits. To stop feeling “here comes another one” and get your drawing to be consolidated in given finite projects e.g. nudes / abstract inventions / landscape and texture  
      It always led to interesting sketchbooks from students who were always asked to reflect in under 50 words on each exercise. 
      Artists who’ve done work like this include 
      Mark Tobey 
        Jasper John 
        but I have loved some drawing books at 
        https://www.fulltable.com/vts/d/drw/drw.htm 
        George used to play the game with his kids and learn lots.  
      Happy Easter  CHRIS  
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