How to Draw Ideas

Re:How to Draw Ideas by lelanthran on Sunday January 15, 2023 @12:38AM (#34387012)

> An hour a day is a massive commitment for most people with lives (work, family etc.) You can get very meaningful progress in drawing with much less. Don’t be discouraged from starting.

I use a cheap toy[1] I got for my kid, who got tired of it. It stays next to my keyboard and I doodle drawing exercises whenever I get tired of typing.

A minute here, a minute there, and next thing I know I've completed quite a few of the exercises (about 30m/day, if all the individual minutes are added up).

Works very well, and enforces drawing from the shoulder and not the wrist.

[1] The one I bought (about $10) is this: https://www.takealot.com/kids-digital-12-inch-drawing-tablet...

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Re:How to Draw Ideas by PebblesRox on Sunday January 15, 2023 @05:35AM (#34388401)

Nice. For anyone getting an LCD tablet for drawing, look for one like the link above where the drawing area is all one color. My kids have one with a rainbow gradient, which I find annoying -- especially because the darkest/lowest contrast color goes right across the middle in the prime drawing area!

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