Ah, yeah, that's precisely it, creating the habit! I might grab your idea of using Line of Action to practise when no ideas come up and I want to draw, though, because I love that site but had never thought of doing something similar to get out of a drawing funk...
Inderdaad!
I have a German reader who said the very same thing about how they can grasp much of Dutch without really knowing it. My Dutch is not very advanced (yet) but there are a few little things in German that have become more understandable even to me, not counting the more obvious ones (like kaas - Käse, haha, that's easy).
A sketchbook for putting ideas on paper without caring to make them look perfect seems like a good strategy. Just don't get a fancy sketchbook because that fear of messing up the first page of something that's too pretty is real! I always skip the first page myself so i don't deal with the anxiety of needing to draw something beautiful to greet whoever opens up my sketchbook.
And ah, damn, this is why I shouldn't type messages when someone is speaking to me IRL -- those comms I mentioned are not just for writing, they welcome multimedia fills to their prompts! Hell, I've done drawings for both of them, haha. But I see must explore drawesome more closely, thank you for mentioning it :)
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Date: 2025-05-03 11:34 pm (UTC)Inderdaad!
I have a German reader who said the very same thing about how they can grasp much of Dutch without really knowing it. My Dutch is not very advanced (yet) but there are a few little things in German that have become more understandable even to me, not counting the more obvious ones (like kaas - Käse, haha, that's easy).
A sketchbook for putting ideas on paper without caring to make them look perfect seems like a good strategy. Just don't get a fancy sketchbook because that fear of messing up the first page of something that's too pretty is real! I always skip the first page myself so i don't deal with the anxiety of needing to draw something beautiful to greet whoever opens up my sketchbook.
And ah, damn, this is why I shouldn't type messages when someone is speaking to me IRL -- those comms I mentioned are not just for writing, they welcome multimedia fills to their prompts! Hell, I've done drawings for both of them, haha. But I see must explore