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What is something like a hobby or skill that you belive almost anybody should give a try, and what makes your suggestion so good compared to other things?

i feel like this is a descent question i guess.

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[โ€“] VeeSilverball@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Drawing gets a lot easier if you approach it as a muscle-memory skill like calisthenics or juggling - if you can write letters neatly, you can also learn to draw shapes you've practiced. The early exercises in books like Keys to Drawing (Dodson) or The Natural Way to Draw (Nicolaides) introduce ways to practice those skills, and then the rest is "find subjects you want to draw", which can be as simple as watching a video, pausing it, and quickly using that for the exercise. Do that for a few minutes a day for a few weeks and drawing skills will magically emerge.

There are tons of "how to draw tutorials" that don't explain any of this, speak about it conceptually, and tell you to go draw a thousand cubes, which will make you better at drawing...cubes. (There is some point to that kind of technical skill, but it's not the thing to invest in if you just want to use images to tell a story)