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in reply to @aidan's post:
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I wonder what that's like. Do you feel good while actually drawing, or is it more a rush from having accomplished stuff at the end?
I'm occasionally drawing (because I picked up a "how to draw" book at the Goodwill and am working through it) and it gives me something different to feel in my head, but I don't know that I'd characterize it as "fun". It might be fun eventually, maybe, but at this point it's more like exercise I think, where I don't actually enjoy it directly but maybe I feel better later, after I recover? It's certainly not the feeling I get out of reading a book I like, or other things I'd do directly for fun.
The book claims that getting one's brain into "drawing mode" should be refreshing and rejuvenating, but I just find drawing exhausting. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.
a bit of both! the difficult thing for my creative process, relatively speaking, is actually thinking of something to draw at all, so portraiture specifically and fanart generally just lets me kind of vibe on the actual process of doing it. i do absolutely love having the finished piece at the end though!
Drawing is a skill just like any other and because i tend to get overly precious about stuff i am bad about actually exercising my drafting muscles. so i've been trying to do "low effort" (ie, don't need to come up with composition or characers or whatever) fanart more just to get back into the motions.
it kiiind of sounds like you're reading The Artists Way but if not it might be a good book to look at! it's more of a "learning how to get into the rhythm of developing/honing drawing skills" kind of book than a "draw the rest of the owl" kind of book and i like it quite a bit when i get into a slump of some kind :D
Actually what I have is "The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain", 3rd. Ed.
But I'll check out The Artists Way at some point.
I have a feeling that the book I have is about to move on from contours to talking about shadow and shading and I really feel like I need way more practice at just lines first.