a thing i'm really enjoying about drawing that i didn't expect is it has the same experimentation phase that i loved when programming games, but much more immediate and rapid
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like, you have an idea or affect in your mind, and you try to translate it to your medium (ink, code), and that process is like a little puzzle game. sometimes you have the gist but need to tweak it to be "right", sometimes you need a completely different solution.
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and when you *do* find a way to express this in your medium, you now have a tool you can apply to future puzzles, increasing your overall expressivity!
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Yup! Style is just a bunch of previous tools that you've collected to help you build future work more quickly. Tricky thing is when you fall into a rut, just using the same tools… I find drawing from life helps with that - increases the chance of new things popping up.