I grew up playing the violin, and also drawing a lot. They had very different models for learning: with the violin you’d spend weeks or months in solitude on a

I grew up playing the violin, and also drawing a lot. They had very different models for learning: with the violin you’d spend weeks or months in solitude on a piece, each week trying to improve some particular passage, and then you performed in front of lots of people, and then it was done. The drawings I did, on the other hand each consumed a few hours at most. Each drawing made me a bit better, and I got constant feedback. There wasn’t one single important moment, where things could go wrong and invalidate months of preparation, and drawings were also fairly mutable. This is interesting because it’s a sort of union of the two — practice becomes performance. Maybe I’d have been a little more motivated if I’d been able to see my peers practice violin.