Which is easier to do: Writing or Drawing?
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Drawing is easier to do in my opinion because picturing and drawing something in your head is easier than creating something new. Of course, both of them are extremely easy, its just doing it well that's the INSANELY hard part. Still, I would say that it is easier to draw, partially because drawing is a skill that can be taught much more than writing because drawing uses skilled techniques like if your drawing a profile of someones face than do step A than B than C and so on until the final product. In writing you can take classes to help you (and they will help) but not as much as you can learn about drawing.
^ this I agree with 100%The Rogue Wolf said:
Writing is far easier for me. but then i love to read and once you have read enough novels writing becomes easier.
Drawing takes practice i dont want to put in and hence i suck
Drawing takes practice i dont want to put in and hence i suck
As an amateur of both, they each require the same skills. Portrayal of an endpoint, details, familiarity, imagination, visualization, and being so pissed off at seeing the finished product as shit but you can't find a way to improve it, so you scrap it anyway.
I doubt there is a constant here. As with anything really. Some people are good at drawing, some people write well. Some people are amazing at maths, some (me!) are plain awful at it. I very much enjoy both drawing and writing. I wouldn't say I'm much good at any of the two though... Measuring up against some of the amazing work I see other people out there do, I feel really quite terrible at it!
I still love doing it though, and thats what matters to me. I'm not planning on living off of it. My favorite thing in the world is to just relax somewhere and let my imagination run wild. My dreams can revolve around the same "plot" every night for weeks or months. Aparently all my other friends only dream completely random things, or things rarely related to something they dreamt before. I seem to have a whole story going on in my head X3. Makes me feel like I must be crazy at times!
I still love doing it though, and thats what matters to me. I'm not planning on living off of it. My favorite thing in the world is to just relax somewhere and let my imagination run wild. My dreams can revolve around the same "plot" every night for weeks or months. Aparently all my other friends only dream completely random things, or things rarely related to something they dreamt before. I seem to have a whole story going on in my head X3. Makes me feel like I must be crazy at times!
Neither, some people can write well while being shit at drawing(like me) and some are the opposite. Some can do neither. Some can do both. Person to person basis.
It's not like I lack experience. I've been writing for a decade now, and I can tell what works and what doesn't. Among the hurdles I can't seem to get over is originality. I take a lot of inspiration from works I've enjoyed myself. I build on that, put my own spin on it, but instead of creating something new, it always ends up looking like a crude imitation. I feel like I haven't written anything that's truly mine.GTwander said:
I think visual arts and writing are creative in very different ways. For an artist, how plays just as great (if not greater) a role as what. For a writer, overly dolled up language certainly doesn't turn a bad story into a good one, in the worst case it'll just get in the way. A "good" writer isn't very good at all if he has nothing to say.
It really all depends on how you best express yourself. For some writing will be much easier and they can weave a story out of ideas plucked from the ether. Others can take a look around them or even within themselves and lay down a visual masterpiece. There are musicians who can hear the sounds around them and translate that into music, as Hendrix did.Twyce said:
I'm not really good at any of those but am passable. I can write an okay story, on rare occasion can pull off some good artwork and sometimes while fooling around on my guitar I can lay down a sweet little chord progression, riff or lick.
I wouldn't say that either is objectively more difficult, but personally I find writing much easier. I'd like to think that I'm a fairly decent writer (even if I lack the attention span and drive to carry a story until completion most of the time), while I really just can't draw worth a damn.
I suppose that what makes the difference for me is that I enjoy the actual process of writing, even if the particular piece I'm writing ends up in the recycle bin and never sees the light of day. Attempting to draw and leaving without any tangible results however just leaves me frustrated.
I suppose that what makes the difference for me is that I enjoy the actual process of writing, even if the particular piece I'm writing ends up in the recycle bin and never sees the light of day. Attempting to draw and leaving without any tangible results however just leaves me frustrated.
Really?
It depends on the person of course. I'm more of a writer, but that doesn't mean I don't try to learn how to draw.
Some folks are shitty writers, but great artists and Vice versa
It depends on the person of course. I'm more of a writer, but that doesn't mean I don't try to learn how to draw.
Some folks are shitty writers, but great artists and Vice versa
There has never been an original thought since the beginning of time, it's always been a basis of observation > imitation. Even the wheel bit the physics of an object rolling down a hill. All that is required is a spark of inspiration and the ability to spend time on it and make it flower.excalipoor said:
I haven't had one of those moments in quite some time (mostly due to immediate life worries clouding my creative vision), but I can remember a handful of moments where a single image or thought evolved into something amazing, but similar to it's origination in the smallest sense. If nobody knew that moment is what got the ball rolling, they'd never make the connection.
An example would be a book I've been working the kinks out of since the moment I saw the intro to Persona 3 on IGN, long before it's release. I saw the image of kids putting a gun to their head and it just clicked. Eventually it turned into a tale that took notes from quite a few things; it revolves around the Aboriginal concept of 'the dreamtime', has daily resets of time and events similar to Groundhog Day, rules to that reset that are experimented with along the lines of how the killer notebook was in Death Note, and involves a group of high school delinquents (The Breakfast Club) that are constantly offing themselves in order to relive the day's events ad infinitum (the gun to head thing from P3). Had I not used any of those examples to help push the point across, it's highly unlikely anyone would come upon them on their own, and the plot strays greatly from any direct similarities beyond, perhaps, certain plot devices and other characteristics.
~but again, there is no such thing as original thought, as all those inspirations were in turn inspired by something else all together.
As someone who considers himself skilled at both, I'm going to have to say they can't really be compared. Both are easy enough to be decent at, but extremely difficult to master.
At first drawing seems the more difficult due to the immediately visible differences between a professional and an amateur. One can merely glance at a piece and know which is which.
But writing can be just as finicky - absolute novices (usually children) can be forgiven for their lack of experience, but people actually tend to get worse the more they do it. Amateur writers usually use way too many words (and usually exotic or uncommon words in the hope of sounding sophisticated, when in reality all they do is confuse the reader), passive tense instead of active tense, too many adverbs and other unnecessary descriptions. Truly great writers have to find a balance between colorful writing and simple writing. Something that paints the scene for the reader, but also moves the action forward without using too many words. I'm just getting there myself, and believe me, it's difficult.
At first drawing seems the more difficult due to the immediately visible differences between a professional and an amateur. One can merely glance at a piece and know which is which.
But writing can be just as finicky - absolute novices (usually children) can be forgiven for their lack of experience, but people actually tend to get worse the more they do it. Amateur writers usually use way too many words (and usually exotic or uncommon words in the hope of sounding sophisticated, when in reality all they do is confuse the reader), passive tense instead of active tense, too many adverbs and other unnecessary descriptions. Truly great writers have to find a balance between colorful writing and simple writing. Something that paints the scene for the reader, but also moves the action forward without using too many words. I'm just getting there myself, and believe me, it's difficult.
Writing for me, drawing for other people.
And some are equally as awesome at both and some suck at both.
And some are equally as awesome at both and some suck at both.
For me writing both creatively and in a more serious and professional context is far easier than drawing. I gave up on trying to draw back in primary school, never got past the stick figures for people level.
Thats for me though, I have a friend who is incredibly talented at drawing, yet could never put together a coherent and fluent essay. Ask him and you'd get the opposite response - its all a matter of perspective.
Thats for me though, I have a friend who is incredibly talented at drawing, yet could never put together a coherent and fluent essay. Ask him and you'd get the opposite response - its all a matter of perspective.
I think I'm better at writing than I am at drawing. I can do both fairly well and while most people would probably say I draw a lot better I've done more short stories that I remember off-hand and there are more that I'm proud to have written. I get more out of writing.