[Creative Orbit] Why Drawing Your Character Beats Designing Your Life

Andrew Folts
7 min readMar 21, 2020

“Hey, human! This is a story about how I stopped obsessing over lifestyle design and started drawing a character…which turned out to be way more useful. If you just want the step-by-step guide, skip down to the Process section.”
—Andrew,
F the Lines

Andrew Folts

Author of 365 Comics. Writer, illustrator, and barefoot runner slinging minimalist hacks for creative rebels.