Ignore The Monsters, Keep Drawing

Let go of fear and find your mojo

Since returning from San Francisco, I’ve been deep in the trenches building a new ContinuousLineStorytelling.comWebflow website, as well as drawing lines only for this month’s #ContinuousLinesOnly challenge. Just ink, paper, and movement. Simple, yet an opportunity to deepen my connection to my beautifully energetic lines.

I see it in workshops, in Zoom classes, even in my own hand—that hesitation before the first mark, the moment of pause, the resistance to begin. What if I mess up? What if it’s not good? What if I wreck this paper?

That first line holds so much: fear, anxiety, anticipation, control.

But once you surrender to the movement of the line, something shifts. Drawing stops being a wall and becomes a conversation.

The Fear of Getting It “Wrong”

There’s a reason people hesitate before they start a drawing. We’ve been conditioned to see art as performance—to get it right or don’t do it at all, and by God, it better look good. The reach for perfection is exxxxhausting.

Most traditional art instruction reinforces this. Draw this shape. Follow these steps. Master these techniques before you dare to make something of your own.

Continuous line drawing is different. It’s not about control—it’s about flow. It’s about letting your hand move, letting the line guide you instead of trying to strangle it into perfection.

If you let it, this practice rewires how you think about drawing—and maybe even how you think about yourself. It has for me.

In The Flow

If you’ve ever experienced the feeling of being in flow—whether through drawing, writing, dancing, or even just walking without thinking too much—you know what it’s like to let something move through you instead of forcing it.

Continuous line drawing invites this kind of channeling.
For some, this is exhilarating. For others, ick.

With practice and patience, it asks you to let go of overthinking and trust that your hand knows what to do. It strengthens an internal wisdom that we all need to navigate these chaotic days.

The more you do it, the stronger that connection becomes.
Your line strengthens.
Your confidence builds.
Your intuition sharpens.

You start to recognize your own style—and you like it.

Let’s Draw

On Tuesday, February 25, I’m hosting a free live Zoom class to help people ease into this practice—to break through the fear and start drawing in a way that feels freeing instead of intimidating.

And on March 3, my STARTER Continuous Line Drawing Class launches right here on Substack—a way to start building this practice without pressure, without rules, without the weight of perfection.

Let’s draw <3

Go Easy on Yourself, Go Easy on Others,
Meagan Burns