Does anyone wish they could draw or produce art but can't?

[PangolinFeets]

Originally Posted by snake

His stuff is amazing! Also, don't discourage yourself. Do you still want to draw?

I don't have the time anymore. I kinda just doodle on scraps to pass time in meetings. lol My crafty time is spent on sewing now.

[BubblyShell22]

I have to chime in here and I'll use writing as an example since that's what I do. When I first dabbled in fan fiction, I thought my very first story was the best out there because I was so excited to be putting a story of mine out there and showing people my writing ability. But now that I look back on that story, there was a lot I could have improved on back in 2004 as I was still new to the fan fiction world. But now I've been in it for ten years now, and I've definitely gotten better at writing. It just takes practice and then you get better at what you do. I don't want to say I was "born" with writing talent because I never had a desire to write until high school and even then it was just original stuff that wasn't my best at all. Now I've gotten better, and I'm glad that I took that chance to improve myself.

[CyberCubed]

To be honest, writing is a lot easier than drawing. Word automatically corrects spelling mistakes for you now, and aside from some grammar errors people can write easily. Of course whether the story is good or not is another issue, but as long as you're not putting your reader to sleep that's a good thing.

Drawing is a lot more complicated. Art is a lot different than writing. Much harder and more complex.

[Netkeeper]

Hahahaha, no. Writing is difficult. There's a reason my project is a comic and not a fan fiction -- I'm only good at dialogue. My narration is awful.

Also, poetry counts as writing, too. And do you know anybody that says poetry is easy?

[PangolinFeets]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

To be honest, writing is a lot easier than drawing. Word automatically corrects spelling mistakes for you now, and aside from some grammar errors people can write easily. Of course whether the story is good or not is another issue, but as long as you're not putting your reader to sleep that's a good thing.

Drawing is a lot more complicated. Art is a lot different than writing. Much harder and more complex.

You can write on paper too and you can draw digitally. Both have pros and cons. But having autocorrect or a 'back' button doesn't help the creative process.

[Metalwolf]

Originally Posted by PangolinFeets

You can write on paper too and you can draw digitally. Both have pros and cons. But having autocorrect or a 'back' button doesn't help the creative process.

Nor does it help with grammar or sentence structure. I've seen many a fic riddled with errors that was nigh unreadable because they didn't know where or how to place words or punctuation. It would be one thing if these were by folks who didn't have English as their first language, but many were by native speakers.

And Cubed, writing isn't easy.

Any joker can write this:

"I see Spot. I see Spot run. Run Spot, run!"

It's another to write this:

"We had finally finished our survey of the field, and me and Spot were tired. Spot's often boundless energy had found it's outlet today on the field, and he had spent the day running back and forth, chasing whatever scents caught his nose. Sometimes in his enthusiasm he would catch a scent and go bounding off for a few hundred yards, only to run back a few minutes later to 'tell' me what he had found.. Often it would be a mole or a mouse, snuffled over with pure doggy enthusiasm, and then quickly forgotten as another new scent was discovered."

And even I don't know if I did it right

[Blossombrooks]

Take it from somebody who writes and draws, they both require equal skill and practice. Neither is easy if you want to produce something truly exceptional.

[Hannurdock]

I would love to be able to create art. I can write, but I can't draw. The best I can do is tracing something.

Most of the stuff I produce looks like a six year old drew it.

[BubblyShell22]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

To be honest, writing is a lot easier than drawing. Word automatically corrects spelling mistakes for you now, and aside from some grammar errors people can write easily. Of course whether the story is good or not is another issue, but as long as you're not putting your reader to sleep that's a good thing.

Drawing is a lot more complicated. Art is a lot different than writing. Much harder and more complex.

I have Word on my computer, and it doesn't automatically correct all my mistakes. I usually have to go back and proofread them myself and fix them, which is fine. Writing is not as easy as you think because you can still make errors and mistakes even if you're good at it. My point is that if you want to be good at something, you need to practice it. I just used writing as an example because that's what I do, and I do consider it as art. In fact, in one of my art classes, I was worried that I'd have to draw something, but my professor said that even poetry is art, so I wrote a poem about TV and some of my favorite shows.