Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.
I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.
I loved drawing, but I just couldn't do it to the level that some of my friends could. That pulled me up unconsciously because I wanted to be like them, and I wanted to draw.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.
After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.
Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.
Drawing was a cheap way for me to express myself. It gave a focus to my thinking and my life from a very early age.
Even though I'm usually not conscious of it, I think drawing has always served a sort of therapeutic purpose in my life. There's something about the process of translating the messy chaos of real life into a clean, simple drawing that's always been comforting to me.
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