Do you consider drawing a distraction? I think this has a lot to do with wether you are in the mood to draw or not.
I was talking with an anon about this, saying that I see drawing more like something like meditation, while he was saying it is a distraction. Maybe meditation itself is a distraction, who knows?
It's difficult to pin point, because when you draw, you are basically just looking at a blank paper for most of the time, struggling with your own thoughts.
But then again, you also can watch other stuff while drawing, on the side.
I would think anyone can agree that watching something like YouTube can be considered a distraction. You have a screen in front of you and watch something on the internet. That's a distraction. But this also can become boring, just sitting there the whole time looking at a screen with people doing something.
Now if you start drawing at the same time, you basically can distract yourself from the distraction of looking at your screen. So basically drawing becomes a distraction itself then, right?
If you just draw in an empty room, without a screen or anything, then drawing basically also is a distraction, but not a very good one. It requires a lot of discipline to just work on a paper the whole time with nothing else to look at. But if you have a screen with somethung running on the side, then it's basically a decent distraction, right?
A big reason for people not feeling in the mood to draw is that drawing requires a lot of patience. But if you rather view drawing as a distraction, then it basically shouldn't require any patience anymore.
What is your opinion on this? Is drawing a distraction or not?
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>>7929140
Did you ever tried to view or listen to some lengthy video, podcast, review or whatever, and you just couldn't sit there watching or hearing that in static attention? Well, drawing is a perfect medium to put your mind in a receptive but calm state. Of course, some will say that you can't draw while listening something like music or whatever, but that's just a matter of getting used to the drawing habit.
So, in order to pay attention to something you shouldn't be "distracted", hence, drawing is not a distraction, it doesn't work as such. You are in "tune" when drawing, like in a subtle trance of sorts. Maybe you could say that drawing is a type of self-hypnosis method.
That's one thing, the other thing is, have you ever experienced the realization that when you explain or "teach" something to someone, you actually learn or get understand that thing even better, yourself? Drawing has that function as well, you understand stuff when you draw it, or try to. Just by trying, your brain begins to "understand" what the concept of creation, and the "reality of things" really is.Things are more than words, or shapes, or symbols, your human brain, has the capacity to reverse engineering reality itself. You just accepts that as a given, without realizing what it means to be able to perform that supernatural act.
It's not a distraction, it's a cognitive ability and tool to unlock things in your brain, and understand the world of reality better, to "see" with your brain, even things that are not there or "doesn't exist".
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>>7929215
>You are in "tune" when drawing, like in a subtle trance of sorts.
I also can be in "tune" when watching a good movie. A good movie can make you forget about anything else and you just concentrate on the movie. Yet movies are still a distraction.
>It's not a distraction, it's a cognitive ability and tool to unlock things in your brain, and understand the world of reality better
I think awareness is not a good thing. It's better to be stupid, because stupid people are happier. Intelligence and awareness are a curse.
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>>7929219
>I would say i view it as more of an escape than anything else
Yea, I see what you mean. It's an escape which requires to work for it tho. If you just start to draw, and sit in front of a blank page, then it's almost the opposite of an escape. It only becomes an escape when you already created something.
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>>7929229
Yea, I think drawing definitely has something meditative about it. That's also why it often can be hard to get into it tho. Meditation is not exactly very exciting. However, since you are not really meditating, but drawing, there definitely is more entertainment value.
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>>7929332
Idk if he's trolling, but I found myself writing
> literally everything else is a distraction from drawing
Because that's me and
>Without everything else you wouldn't even be able to draw, dumbass
Is also me.
I hate having to do the mundane things to be a human. As a human animal I need to go out more, socialize and live life, but she calls me. When Dave Rapoza told said he stepped up his game because he was going to have a kid I was so envious, because in the back of my head I think "If I had a kid maybe my art will level up" or "If I got a gf maybe I'll be satisfied and she'll push/inspire me to make more art" I'm currently toying with the idea of thinking of everything as a painting so I can focus on getting my life together instead of feeling like I have to rush to do things (Leading to horrible short term decisions) so I can get back to art. It's all I want to do, but the appetites of the flesh vexes me so... I hate it I wish I liked something that made actual money, or I liked editing or someshit but I'm not willing to go through the pain of learning the foundations as I have with Art.
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>>7929140
The benefit of posting total fucking bullshit is that anything can be anything and also its own opposite and also not and also nothing and not nothing simultaneously. Then you need civilisation-rescuing level handholding to even establish that things definitely are.
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>>7931741
If you become a junkie or smash your skull you can't do anything anymore and life becomes even more unbearable.
Thanks for proving my point tho. retards like you don't understand simple logic, so you think life is a flower world.
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Distraction from what? Your day job, personal issues, life in general? I find it very strange to call art, or any other pursuit people like to engage with, a distraction. Sure, you might doodle during a boring meeting or lecture as a distraction, but as a hobby or perhaps a side job drawing is the thing you focus your energy on. Anything that requires discipline and cognitive skills, be it as a hobby or as a job, is something people often strive to do because they want to, because it's fun. Why would it be a distraction?
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This is the Distraction. This is what you need to stop. The only thing that's worth anything here are the Torrent/refs, there's no solid critique advice nor recommendations that's worth distracting you.
If youre worried about being serious find a better place to spend your time. Your environment dictates how your mind is shaped, what you consume shapes you and the majority people here are begs, permabegs, coom artists and schizos so choose which one you'd like to be.
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>>7932727
>If youre worried about being serious find a better place to spend your time
There is no better place. The whole internet is normie-territory now. This place may be a dump, but at least I don't get immediately permabanned here for saying my opinions.
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>>7932699
>Anything that requires discipline and cognitive skills, be it as a hobby or as a job, is something people often strive to do because they want to, because it's fun. Why would it be a distraction?
Videogames also can require discipline and cognitive skills. Yet they are a distraction.