Writing for sure. It was my writing skill alone that got me through my degree, everything else just dragged me down.
as far as art goes, I can XKCD.
as far as art goes, I can XKCD.
Which is easier to do: Writing or Drawing?
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Hands can't do surgery? See the Ancient One and end up becoming Sorcerer Supreme.GTwander said:
Seriously, though, it's a totally different set of skills. Everyone can draw, most everyone can write (barring physical or mental impairments). It's just a matter of how well. Drawing is visual and therefor is just a lot more subjective. Writing has more rules to it. Spelling, grammar, etc. If you ass it up, it's a lot harder to overlook than a little bit of bad color theory or wonky anatomy.
Neither. They are both as difficult and complex as the other and it's silly to compare them.
Writing and drawing are just tools. The real difficulty is the expression of creation and the skill within the medium you have chosen.
They both have their incredibly subtle complexities that most people won't notice but all ultimately contribute to a cohesive and well designed whole.
The key to both writing AND drawing is composition. If you don't have good composition then even to an inexperienced eye your work will be an ugly shambles.
You need to have a damn good grasp on composition, tone and the ability to make a cohesive piece. These are applicable to BOTH kinds of work.
The practicalities are pretty meaningless. Anyone can learn perfect grammar or sentence structure, and anyone can learn to draw and paint incredibly well, but if it lacks those key defining attributes it won't matter and the aesthetics of your piece just won't be appealing to most people.
Eh, I do a lot of both. My favourite way to convey a story is visual storytelling, so I use a combination of the two in pretty much all my work.
Writing and drawing are just tools. The real difficulty is the expression of creation and the skill within the medium you have chosen.
They both have their incredibly subtle complexities that most people won't notice but all ultimately contribute to a cohesive and well designed whole.
The key to both writing AND drawing is composition. If you don't have good composition then even to an inexperienced eye your work will be an ugly shambles.
You need to have a damn good grasp on composition, tone and the ability to make a cohesive piece. These are applicable to BOTH kinds of work.
The practicalities are pretty meaningless. Anyone can learn perfect grammar or sentence structure, and anyone can learn to draw and paint incredibly well, but if it lacks those key defining attributes it won't matter and the aesthetics of your piece just won't be appealing to most people.
Eh, I do a lot of both. My favourite way to convey a story is visual storytelling, so I use a combination of the two in pretty much all my work.
Me being a writer who can't draw for shit, I'm saying writing.
Fun fact: I can actually art like a god if you tell me to do cubism.
Fun fact: I can actually art like a god if you tell me to do cubism.
Definitely writing, I love to draw and from what you said they just need to imagine something, which isn't exactly true I have all of these amazing ideas in my head but when I try to draw them it turns out like shit. XD With writing sure it may not be perfect or a best seller but as long as you know how to keep the reader interested you're good to go.
Learning anatomy is actually pretty easy. Learning how the human body will look at any angle or pose for each individual character is way hard though, at least for me. Maybe it's just me, but writing comes a whole lot easier. Especially if you spend most of your time reading reviews, forum posts, books, etc.thesilentman said: