Blah blah blah blah. Here I go again.

Something I have noticed is that people seem to shut down their art careers or progress or even just sketching, all
because they can't access a computer. http://www.meh.ro/wp-content/upload.....meh.ro3125.jpg

That's really really a bad way to get better. In fact, that's probably one of the things holding some people back. You
don't get better by only doing fully rendered pieces of art over and over and over again. It's good for you, but it can
also stagnate your style. Why? Because instead of focusing on ironing out the kinks of your work by sketching on a
real pad of paper, you're constantly working on these big pictures and making mistakes that could have been caught
much earlier on. I bet if you looked at someone who sketched a lot in their down time from painting a masterpiece
to someone who only wanted to do full paintings, the one who sketched would be doing more refined and tighter
pieces that look simply better. No, you're not working on your colors, but colors don't matter if you can't accurately
shade in black and white. Sure you may not be focusing on painting, but you're learning form, figure, and correct
perspective. You're focusing solely on the technical details, or maybe you're fleshing out a character, or maybe
getting that whole background thing figured out.

But the best thing about a sketch pad is that it is YOUR sketchpad. You can draw whatever you want and you don't
ever have to let it see the light of day. This is your place to make mistakes and be frustrated, not on the canvas
when all you want to do in hunker down and let the art flow.

So.. next time you're bored and without a computer. Remember, artists were drawing for thousands of years
without them, I think you can too.