For me, the key is I have to have a sketchbook or my iPad close by. If I'm already settled in and watching something, I'm unlikely to get up again and go fetch it!
I've been doing this all my life and side drawing is such a good word for it. You just made it something real and tangible, I didn't think much of it before. Thank you!
Side-drawing. Great principle here ... taking the performance pressure away from anything we're practicing to get better at. I don't draw but the same principle happened to me when digital cameras arrived. My photography skills leaped to a new level as the ability to see and delete photos was made easy ... and free. Maybe even, digital writing ... so easy to edit, move, delete. Thanks for sharing.
I have always done it. As a teenager, I’d doodle while spending hours on the phone with my friends (we’re talking a landline here, because I’m old) and once I absentmindedly doodled all over my mother’s important invoices. She was not very pleased.
I'm sure she later forgave you when she saw the quality of the drawings on those invoices! Thanks for the comment, and I'm glad you are a fellow side drawer.
Side drawing is a way of life. Thanks for sharing this, Kyle. If I can just remember to pick up the pencil instead of the phone…
For me, the key is I have to have a sketchbook or my iPad close by. If I'm already settled in and watching something, I'm unlikely to get up again and go fetch it!
Fortunately, there is always one nearby here;)
I've been doing this all my life and side drawing is such a good word for it. You just made it something real and tangible, I didn't think much of it before. Thank you!
We side-drawers are many!
Thanks for reading and commenting, Jonas.
Very good advice.
I'm sure you are a frequent "side-drawer," too, Mick! 👍
Some - but I could do more.
Always wanted to try, but never did! Will try now. Thanks Kyle!
It‘s a nice, low pressure way to work in some drawing for the day, Dejan. 👍👍
Side-drawing. Great principle here ... taking the performance pressure away from anything we're practicing to get better at. I don't draw but the same principle happened to me when digital cameras arrived. My photography skills leaped to a new level as the ability to see and delete photos was made easy ... and free. Maybe even, digital writing ... so easy to edit, move, delete. Thanks for sharing.
It took me a while to notice how great it was to spend all that time drawing and not caring much about the result! 😀
I have always done it. As a teenager, I’d doodle while spending hours on the phone with my friends (we’re talking a landline here, because I’m old) and once I absentmindedly doodled all over my mother’s important invoices. She was not very pleased.
I'm sure she later forgave you when she saw the quality of the drawings on those invoices! Thanks for the comment, and I'm glad you are a fellow side drawer.