… and further, software is the only thing that enables me to draw at all these days. It’s been a very long time since I produced a sketch on paper, but I don’t miss it at all. The texture, the weight, the smell etc of paper just doesn’t grab me. Or perhaps I should say it does grab me but it doesn’t inspire me to permanently mark it. The last time I tried "real-life" drawing I sat down with a book and a pen and scribbled an ugly ugly picture of a bay. It took me a long time, and looked like total crap in my opinion– look, here it is now:

Funnily enough it actually looks better in this context than it does in my sketchbook.