I thought that was it!
I don't draw as much as I used to, but not because I don't want to. It's just time-consuming and at some point I branched out into writing and even painting more often.
I tend to draw in phases, also, as far as subject matter. Like for a while I'll do comic book stuff, then go through a "real life portrait" style phase, and then an erotica phase. That last one lasted a long time, because I needed a serious challenge after getting bored with the other stuff. But that's a big reason why it's not out there for anyone to see.
My wife tells me I'm awesome, though. Other people do too but she's the only one who's seen my entire portfolio.
I think writing is maybe easier because technically "Anyone can do it," I don't mean they can do it
well but literally anyone can put words on paper, the rest is simply refinement. Some people can master the craft, and some can't, but almost anyone can put a few sentences together and form a narrative. Drawing requires a keen eye for detail that not everyone even has, kind of like how not everyone has an ear for music or what have you. It's especially difficult if you try and draw realism. If you aim more "abstract" or stylized, you have more freedom, but drawing for realism is very hard. I think I'm okay at comic book stuff but I've never been completely happy with my real-life portrait stuff.
So like, maybe writing is easier, at least conceptually. Just about anyone can put words into some kind of coherent narrative, but not anyone has the ability to draw anything more competent than a stick figure. You can teach and refine either skill, but I think the basics of writing come easier than the basics of drawing.
My 8th grade year I got to go to a special Arts school for most of the day a couple'a times a week as part of some program. Pretty neat! They had kids there for all different arts but I was there for Visual Arts. But there was some fun cross-over, like one time they had us sit in with the dance kids and try to sketch them in motion as they did ballet, just to get used to practicing figures in dynamic motion and all that. Good times!
In High School I got more into writing, though; I took Drawing and Painting I and II the first two years, but my home life was a wreck and I couldn't concentrate on that stuff as much as I wanted. So I got more involved with reading and writing, so since there was no third-level Drawing and Painting courses anyway, I took stuff like Creative Writing and Journalism as electives to finish up the last couple years. Turned out to be some of the best stuff I ever got involved with, I use the stuff I learned in those classes every single day.
I also studied Criminal Justice, Video Technology, Communications Tech, Materials and Methods (high-level Shop class with an emphasis on design theory), and Transportation Tech, along with some basic data entry stuff. I know I come off as a complete lunatic sometimes, but ya boy's actually quite a learned and well-read fellow.
Knowledge Is Power, B!