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Do the Drawabox course. A dry, intentionally tough course on technical drawing might seem a little out of left field, but the way it is set up makes it a medita
by syntheweave 5y ago
Do the Drawabox course. A dry, intentionally tough course on technical drawing might seem a little out of left field, but the way it is set up makes it a meditative practice: you can spend a little bit of your day trying to draw straight lines, and feel assured that the skill remains the same the next day, that pens and paper will do basically the same thing, and that you can make images with the skill that won't disappear because of the software changing. You don't have to "upload context" for an hour to work on a picture either; short glances throughout the day and gradual accumulation of lines will suffice.
These are very good grounding complements to the "software mind", which is perpetually concerned about that disappearance, and needs massive quantities of uninterrupted thought about context-heavy problems. In both cases, you still have to concentrate and plan to get worthwhile results, but with drawing you have much more leeway to let go, and the act of drawing is really the act of learning about something through good observation - good enough that you can reproduce it through marks on a page - so it brings forward a sensibility in yourself that you can apply to anything.