This reminds me of the time I picked up a brush for the first time in something like a decade and was surprised to find that all the time I’d spent drawing stuf

This reminds me of the time I picked up a brush for the first time in something like a decade and was surprised to find that all the time I’d spent drawing stuff with my Wacom tablet meant that I was able to put the ink exactly where I wanted it to, while thinking a lot about how much pressure I was putting on the brush to make its line width change organically. The last time I’d used one was when I was still struggling with properly constructing forms on the page. You do a thing long enough and it sticks in your head in some surprising ways. Though I wonder how much the constant churn of this year’s hot language and framework gets in the way of that for programmers. I’m glad I went into art instead.