Great article Christine. I’m an architect (I saw others that commented are as well) and I haven’t really drawn that much ever. Never, actually. At least not with my own hands but just with the computer. Lots and lots of hours, days, months, years drawing with a computer. A little more than a year ago I decided to start to draw with my iPad. Since that day I’ve been drawing each and every day, no matter what. I’ve never considered myself not even decent at drawing, but I didn’t care and I still don’t care: I decided from the beginning to publish my things. Maybe it’s my age, maybe I don’t care if someone thinks I suck at doing it, but from day one I published them and kept my promise: I have to draw every day. I did it when I was tided and broken, I did it when I was deeply jet lagged, always. That’s my commitment.

Drawing is giving me a lot: it allows me to do something “real” every day, even if it’s done on an iPad. I can make someone laugh, I can draw something that touches a friend or someone I don’t even know in their heart, who knows why. On many levels, drawings are much more intimate than words: they can go straight to your heart, they can hit your mind somewhere. They’re powerful.

I never experienced the “I don’t know how to draw” phase. I know I’m technically very poor but I have zero patience and, basically, I don’t care if it’s good or well done. It’s got to tell something, exactly what I had in my mind before starting it.

I just love doing it. I don’t want to stop drawing, never.

Thank you.