Here are the drawing tools I use:
My mechanical pencil never needs sharpened and never gets dull. My brush pen is like a brush except the ink comes from the inside, no dipping required. I loathe dipping. My Tom’s Studio Lumos Pro Duo is a versatile delight.
These tools do away with the unnecessary friction of sharpening and dipping. (Oh, please sharpen me! I feel so dull. Oh, Jeff, I’m drying out. Dip me! Dip me!) My tools are slidey, not needy. They let me keep my attention on drawing.
Questions:
Are you using any tools that are taking too much of your time and attention away from the the actual thing you are doing? If so, what better tools can you replace them with?
What tool do you love because it gets out of the way and lets you do your work? Let the FFOREST know – hit the comment button and tell us about your tool. (I’m laughing at this because I’m super grown up and mature.) It could be anything – something you use in the kitchen, a sewing machine, an Excel formula, a spanner. Whatever takes the friction our of your work, we want to know about it. Let’s get nerdy.
At work we have this program called Jonas. It is simultaneously the bane of my existence while also being the one thing that makes my job easier. Planning an event, it has a spot for every single detail. Certainly one thing that will get better the longer I work with it.
Grow slowly
Skyler
OMG please bury me with my kitchen shears
Instacart shops for me using my list I need. I would rather do most anything other than shop. I did it for years. As a gift to myself, I send my list to a food store I desire, then they shop and deliver it. I am so thrilled to not shop anymore!