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➖Learning To Draw Again➖

When I was a kid, I drew all day, everyday. It was what I loved to do the most. In class, I would sketch the teachers and fellow students in my exercise book. At home, I would draw everything I could. I mostly drew everything from the imagination. I even made comic books from little stories I had in my head - sometimes featuring existing super heroes like Spiderman, but mostly characters I invented myself; such as Captian Spoonhand. Yes, it’s what it sounds like - One of his hands is a spoon. 😂

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Anyhow, there came a time when the whole creativity just stopped dead. I was preparing for exams I think, and my parents (and every adult around me) discouraged this ‘time wasting’ activity in favour of academic work. I too agreed with them, to be fair. I was taking exams at two different schools simultaneously with two different systems - one American and one British. Looking back now, don’t know how I passed.

I’ve tried to draw now and again, but every time I pick up the pen or brush, the end result just looked like the work of a kid. This is to be expected of course, as I hadn’t put in enough practice as an adult to be ‘good’. I have a lot of extremely artistic friends that I envy so much for their ability to express what is in their head on the medium of their choice. This is probably one of the reasons I got into photography, but that’s a story for another day.

Some of the art and artists I’ve seen on Steemit have inspired me to pick up my pen and doodle pad and start drawing again. It’s a pretty small sketch pad so I can have that with me all the time. So now when I get some time in the café, or have some down time, I can get some doodling in, just like old times. I guess it doesn’t really matter how good the stuff is, as long as I do it and get better. Again - moving in the right direction.