Fire & Smoke, a conceptual drawing of two sources of smoke combining into a cloud. By the author, 2024.
Fire & Smoke, a conceptual drawing of two sources of smoke combining into a cloud. By the author, 2024.

How drawing boosts my mood in a big way

From feeling bland to amazed in a few seconds

Eva Schicker
6 min readOct 25, 2024

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I am always smitten by the emotional effect a drawing has, whether looking at a drawing by a world-famous artist or creating my own.

An impactful, idea-generating technique

Drawing is a strange activity. With the onset of late of AI and generative image creation, we don’t quickly think of drawing as a way to make a statement. Yet, it is a time-proven method that gives us creative and lasting results within a short time.

We take a blank paper, put the pencil to paper, apply pressure, draw a line, shade an area, do crosshatching, some doodles. We write-draw abstractly, oftentimes distractedly. Drawing is achieved with a few tools, charcoal, pencil, a wooden stick, eraser, ink perhaps, a piece of paper, napkin or slab of wood.

Before long, we have something to look at. We have shapes, a theme, a composition, recurring motifs.

As I draw, it’s no longer only me and a blank paper, there’s also a story, there are characters, there is an environment, a space.

The Lantern Tree

I sat down to draw some days ago. My drawings tend to be rooted in nature, landscapes, and magic mountains and their…

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Eva Schicker
Eva Schicker

Written by Eva Schicker

Hello. I write about UX, UI, AI, animation, tech, fiction, art, & travel through the eyes of a designer & painter. I live in NYC. Author of Princess Lailya.

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