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Whenever I talk about drawing, guaranteed, there is someone in the room who says the phrase "I can't even draw a stick man", and it's not about whether you can draw a stick man or not, it's about expressing what stories are stuck in your head, even if you can't draw, and that's how you get better at drawing. By doing it. By drawing. For hours and hours and years and years. Through good times and bad. Your sketchbook is like your best friend or your spouse, and you tell it everything, and you go through things together, and I don't understand how no one seems to understand that when I talk about drawing it's as if I'm talking about a spouse or a child or a parent, and for you to just express that you have no experience in this thing and have never tried, I'm thinking, what, you haven't experienced connection? Not joy. Drawing can't be fun or boring for me any more. It's about me connecting with me and other people.
Like when I went away for the weekend and showed whatever was in my notebook to N, and she had tears in her eyes but she didn't know why. There wasn't anything sad like in a sad movie. She was seeing me. Properly seeing me, because i'm quiet and I don't talk much at all and I don't usually understand conversation enough to make connections in the normal way, so maybe she thought I was shy, or something, or that I was quiet inside as well as outside. But once you look into the notebook, you realise that I'm not quiet inside. And then I feel a step closer to being understood and feeling connected. Or, that it's possible for a connection now.
And, the reason I'm good at drawing is because I've been using drawing as a tool for connection FOR THIRTY YEARS THATS WHY IM GOOD AT IT
anyway i had more to say but a partaker in the grocery shop just returned to the house with stinky stinky celery so now my nose is full of celery smell and all thoughts have left my head
Whenever I talk about drawing, guaranteed, there is someone in the room who says the phrase "I can't even draw a stick man", and it's not about whether you can draw a stick man or not, it's about expressing what stories are stuck in your head, even if you can't draw, and that's how you get better at drawing. By doing it. By drawing. For hours and hours and years and years. Through good times and bad. Your sketchbook is like your best friend or your spouse, and you tell it everything, and you go through things together, and I don't understand how no one seems to understand that when I talk about drawing it's as if I'm talking about a spouse or a child or a parent, and for you to just express that you have no experience in this thing and have never tried, I'm thinking, what, you haven't experienced connection? Not joy. Drawing can't be fun or boring for me any more. It's about me connecting with me and other people.
Like when I went away for the weekend and showed whatever was in my notebook to N, and she had tears in her eyes but she didn't know why. There wasn't anything sad like in a sad movie. She was seeing me. Properly seeing me, because i'm quiet and I don't talk much at all and I don't usually understand conversation enough to make connections in the normal way, so maybe she thought I was shy, or something, or that I was quiet inside as well as outside. But once you look into the notebook, you realise that I'm not quiet inside. And then I feel a step closer to being understood and feeling connected. Or, that it's possible for a connection now.
And, the reason I'm good at drawing is because I've been using drawing as a tool for connection FOR THIRTY YEARS THATS WHY IM GOOD AT IT
anyway i had more to say but a partaker in the grocery shop just returned to the house with stinky stinky celery so now my nose is full of celery smell and all thoughts have left my head
