I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
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.
If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.
For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.
I want to bring drawing back to the basics, make it about the pleasure that it can afford and remove the notion that it's some kind of precious or difficult activity. It's another way of telling a story.
I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.
Every writer is going to end up drawing from their own experiences in one way or another.
Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.