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What Are You Willing To Be Really, Truly, Embarrassingly Bad At?
I have a confession, dear reader: I’ve been learning how to draw.
I’m a 38-year-old woman who spends each evening making and erasing little digital lines on my iPad in the hopes that one of those lines will make me happy enough to continue.
Like countless others, I got the message around 10 or 11 years-old that I couldn’t draw. I was gifted in so many things — but not art.
I spent the next almost 3 decades avoiding anything that required an aptitude for visual art.
Music? All over it. Writing? Count me in. Art, drawing, craft, design? Consumer, enthusiast, devotee — but never creator.
But a few weeks ago, my daughter suggested that Sean download the Procreate app to his new iPad. The main thing you need to know about Procreate is that the vast majority of the cool digital illustrations you’ve seen on Instagram are created in this app.
Then, she pulled up Procreate tutorials on YouTube (of which there are thousands). And the two of them got to work. I especially like these from Art With Flo!
At first, I couldn’t even be bothered to pay attention — that’s my husband’s territory, not…
