Hello, my name is inNewWinDow,
and I'm a doodle addict.

I recently took up drawing again. I've had interest in drawing since I was a kid but didn't draw much. I went over 30 years with hardly drawing because of fear, over thinking, perfectionism, and believing something that isn't true. I thought to be good at drawing you were just born with the talent. Since I thought I didn't have it, I didn't put in the time and effort to improve. I would draw occasionally but usually get frustrated and give up. In mid 2022 I did some research and realized that almost anyone can be an artist just like almost anyone can learn to write. We just need to learn some basics and keep putting in the time to improve. Since then I have been drawing pretty consistently and enjoying it. I still have some of the same struggles, but I have come a LONG way. I like that it is a constant process of learning and that the time we put in counts. Every second we make marks, good or bad is a step forward. I still have a ways to go, but art is a lifelong journey. The most important thing is to keep moving forward and to try and enjoy the ride. The reason I am saying this is to hopefully encourage others as well. We are all unique and see the world in our own way. Drawing is a way to show and communicate that perception that only you see, like a window to the inside. And creating those illusions on paper is an amazing thing! Make art for yourself first, others last, and try not to get stuck in the comparison, envy game. You are you, and they are them :) See other art is inspiration. Appreciate it and learn from it. If you like to draw, go for it. And don't be too hard on yourself. Or it could be something else besides drawing. Find something you enjoy and start investing the time doing it and learning about it. You will get better. Skill just takes time to build. So start building.

inNewWinDow's Faves

Kurtis D Edwards

The final piece for a watercolor course I just wrapped up. Trees are always an important part of my compositions.

Dean C. Graf

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. -Spinoza

Camila Pergat

Some watercolor fish

John Jenkins

1/5

David Young

Kurtis D Edwards

Gorgeous mountain tree on washi kozo paper.

Suzette

Pirkko

I was here

John Jenkins

Square tile border study w/ cat

Sabina Hahn

Dmitry Shostakovich (1906–1975) Shostakovich’s contemporaries do not recall seeing him working, at least not in the traditional sense. The Russian composer was able to conceptualize a new work entirely in his head, and then write it down with extreme rapidity—if uninterrupted, he could average twenty or thirty pages of score a day, making virtually no corrections as he went. But this feat was apparently preceded by hours or days of mental composition—during which he “appeared to be a man of great inner tensions,” the musicologist Alexei Ikonnikov observed, “with his continually moving, ‘speaking’ hands, which were never at rest.” Shostakovich himself was afraid that perhaps he worked too fast. “I worry about the lightning speed with which I compose,” he confessed in a letter to a friend. Undoubtedly this is bad. One shouldn’t compose as quickly as I do. Composition is a serious process, and in the words of a ballerina friend of mine, “You can’t keep going at a gallop.” I compose with diabolical speed and can’t stop myself.… It is exhausting, rather unpleasant, and at the end of the day you lack any confidence in the result. But I can’t rid myself of the bad habit. - From Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey #dailyrituals #inktober #shostakovich @masoncurrey