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[handrawn]

ok, understood

you have been using this software and it's precursor[s] for a long time, me I only started autumn 2003, when I needed a vector editor to work with early Toon Boom in the days when that program was as much used as a flash alternative as anything else; Toon Boom has come a very long way; xara keeps on truckin' along in it's own sweet way

from the beginning I looked on xara as a budget option; I still think of it as a budget option, but it is now a very expensive budget option in comparision to affinity, except for the web which affinity does not do

I use it for a small set of operations because the UI makes them easy; I frequent this forum out of habit now and look back on the days of thinking 'one program does everything' with some bemusement

I think my definition of art and craft differs, we have been there before; art is the inspiration and chosen direction, craft is the implementation of this

[Acorn]

@handrawn, I like our musings. I can use a pen to draw. I need to know where to put it. The second I touch my media, it is down to my craft to tell me how to manipulate the pen and my art tells me when to stop.

My art always says Put the pen down now!

Acorn

[handrawn]

step away from the pen!

was it einstein that said 'life is like bicycle, in order to keep your balance you need to keep going'... and klee's advice was to 'take the line for a walk'

in any event, one of the first things you learn at art school is 'that in order to draw well, you must learn to draw badly'; you may find that your drawing always starts off badly, few can concieve the finished work in every detail before they start out, and those that do are mostly derivative, or hacks.... it is a journey