[WA]

I think you think too much about this. From my experience: I took an art class for about a year. It improved my drawing and painting skills a lot.

Sure, the problem is that your first pictures are kind of ugly. But you can compensate this by just painting the next one and not thinking too much about the outcome.

Furthermore, I realized at some point, that it really doesn’t matter what you paint. An apple and an orange can be highly satisfying.

Painting has two different aspects to it: producing a satisfying result and the flow-like state of painting. Although I have to admit that I found painting to be quite exhausting. It takes a lot of attention and energy to be focused for 2-3 hours.

[patrickxie]

wow thanks for the perspective.

have you tried paint by numbers? are those less exhausting for you?