I found this great post over at Under Consideration. There are a wealth of insightful comments readers have left about their own reasons for drawing and sketching.
My own contribution is as follows:
“Drawing affords the path of least resistance from the conceptual visual idea to objective visual media. It has the least possible amount of psychological and physical overhead weighing down on and in on one’s inner muse.”
Jump over to the thread and leave your own thoughts…
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