An hour a day is a massive commitment for most people with lives (work, family etc.) You can get very meaningful progress in drawing with much less. Don’t be discouraged from starting.
> An hour a day is a massive commitment for most people with lives (work, family etc.) You can get very meaningful progress in drawing with much less. Don’t be discouraged from starting.
I use a cheap toy[1] I got for my kid, who got tired of it. It stays next to my keyboard and I doodle drawing exercises whenever I get tired of typing.
A minute here, a minute there, and next thing I know I've completed quite a few of the exercises (about 30m/day, if all the individual minutes are added up).
Works very well, and enforces drawing from the shoulder and not the wrist.
Nice. For anyone getting an LCD tablet for drawing, look for one like the link above where the drawing area is all one color. My kids have one with a rainbow gradient, which I find annoying -- especially because the darkest/lowest contrast color goes right across the middle in the prime drawing area!
even doing < 5 min a day of learning a new language sees results in a year. drawing probably has a higher startup cost to get into things but i'd expect 10min to be sufficient.
something to consider is that you can really do most beginner drawing exercises & rudiments with only a fraction of your attention so it is pretty easy to draw while doing other things. if you watch tv/commute/cook meals/go out to eat/listen to books & podcasts/use a laundromat/ etc,etc you can use that as supplemental drawing time as well. you can start with basic coordination exercises (drawing lines, circles & ellipses) and work your way up to observational drawing and dynamic sketching practice.
i did some of my most productive studying on the bus or in hospital waiting rooms. even with a fulltime job i would say that 5-6 hours of drawing in a day is very achievable without much sacrifice. you don't need to be that serious about it, but you probably have more time than you think.
