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Aug. 12th, 2011 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelI want to get back into drawing.
I miss pencil and paper, but having no range of motion makes that... er, hard.
Somewhere, I have a Wacom tablet, but it's ten or so years old and I don't know if that would even work with current computers and I don't know where the tablet is and I only have a vague idea of where the pen is. So that's not an option.
I have touch devices, but they don't work well; a finger scribble is shakier, clumsier, less precise. (It is quite possible that a pencil would be equally shaky, given how long it's been. I don't know.)
For a very short while I found a bit of solace in zentangles, which are designed to be (any size really) small, and freeing, and meditative. Except a lot of the nonboring tangle designs require a hell of a lot of precision and detail and clarity and carefulness in tiny spaces, and it's designed for non-erasable ink and I can't remember the last time I did one.
And I just. Even if I found a way to draw, I don't have the skill or practice to pull off the things I want to draw. I didn't even back in jh/hs when I was drawing a lot; I haven't been practicing for years, so any of that is gone; I can't get proportions right, or textures, or proportions, or realisticness, or anything like that.
...but I still want to get back into drawing.
dammit.
I miss pencil and paper, but having no range of motion makes that... er, hard.
Somewhere, I have a Wacom tablet, but it's ten or so years old and I don't know if that would even work with current computers and I don't know where the tablet is and I only have a vague idea of where the pen is. So that's not an option.
I have touch devices, but they don't work well; a finger scribble is shakier, clumsier, less precise. (It is quite possible that a pencil would be equally shaky, given how long it's been. I don't know.)
For a very short while I found a bit of solace in zentangles, which are designed to be (any size really) small, and freeing, and meditative. Except a lot of the nonboring tangle designs require a hell of a lot of precision and detail and clarity and carefulness in tiny spaces, and it's designed for non-erasable ink and I can't remember the last time I did one.
And I just. Even if I found a way to draw, I don't have the skill or practice to pull off the things I want to draw. I didn't even back in jh/hs when I was drawing a lot; I haven't been practicing for years, so any of that is gone; I can't get proportions right, or textures, or proportions, or realisticness, or anything like that.
...but I still want to get back into drawing.
dammit.
