Question:
Does anyone use art as a means of relieving stress by drawing?
Or a way of overcoming bordom? Do some of you (artists,pro or beginners)
draw for your own entertainment?
Answer:
used to use art as a form of calming exersize. However if you read a few of
the flaming posts on this newsgroup, it is no longer the case. I found myself
now pondering if I should draw and share my works for fear of being judged for
either content, quality, or whatever. It would be enough to cause a fur to
stop doing art again! But I will wait and see, perhaps I can still keep art
as a relaxing hobby. I just have to see how the current events unfold.
Hmmm...well, most people don't know it, but I actually DRAW all the scripts
for SHANDA before sending them off to the read artists. So a combination
of writing and drawing does relieve stress for me.
The example I give most is that during the 3 years at my last theater I was
several riots, one shootout, was robbed twice (once with an UZI) and also
went through having a City Manager who was brought up on charges of
discrimination against my assistant and I was a witness agaist him. He
kept his job and eventually took over my theater when the area was
downsized.
Here's how the process I go through: After having an
idea burning in my brain for the past week, I finally sit
down, turn on some music, and start drawing. I'm
one of those people that can only think in 3d so I
immediately get pissed off when one of my lines looks
off. I curse and bellow some more as I slowly etch
out the drawing, etch my stupid eraser to nothing,
and etch away any resolve that I may have had.
Then I give up on it for a while, take my wolf for a hike,
and pass by a cow pasture... at which point I scream,
growl, wail, and hurl the largest pebbles I can find at
the stupified bovines. And I'll hollar things like "That
one line! That damn line that's supposed to constitute
her ass! It just looks so fucking wrong no matter what
I do!!!... but Look at your ass!.. It looks fucking wrong
from this angle too! Your ass is giving me GREIF! and
I was just trying to relax, I'm going home Goldarnit!"
So I make it home, sit down and finish the drawing,
and then INK it which actually starts relieving some stress.
Yeah, I'm tracin those lines, singin to the music, actually
enjoying myself, and by the time It's completely inked,
all that stress I accumulated is usually gone.
don't think I do that, then again I'm not a particularly stressed -
out person. It's more like a thing that has it's own reason
for being, whatever that might be
Since I don't draw on long international plane flights,
(one of the most boring experiences in life) I would say no!
I would think the resultant drawing might be boring if I drew it
whilst feeling bored, but maybe that works for other folks
Oh, always. All my school papers are covered with my bored doodles, mostly the
math ones, though. And whenever I'm in a bad mood or angry at someone, I draw.
Though these drawings often come out hasty, violent, dark and sketchy. I almost
always draw for my own entertainment, like if just want to express something.
