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Why I am drawing

my name is Dominik. I am from the Black Forest in Germany. This is my website. I started sketching in 2017. When I say sketching I mean that I really do think about sketching, drawing, techniques, art supplies and materials, etc. And this is why I started.
About four years ago I was on a train ride with my girlfriend to visit some friends. The train ride took about five hours. Plenty of time to do all the things I really like. Reading, writing, listen to music. I put on my headphones to hear some relaxing music and I thought about starting to do some journaling. However, instead of writing some line of my thoughts I looked at my pencil and on the white paper and I though about drawing my hand.
And I just started. The time I started the train ride still took three hours. With each stroke on the paper with my HB pencil, I got more focused and relaxed. The music playing in my handphones was calming me down even more. And I just drew stroke after stroke. And I saw a hand appearing on the paper which wasn't even that bad.
Suddenly my girlfriend was shaking me. I was kind of angry as she interrupted me while I was drawing and then I realized that we already arrived at the train station we needed to jump off. Was I drawing for three hours? Constantly without doing anything else than listen to music and drawing? That was new to me. Normally I would have switched from writing, to reading, listening to music, back to reading and so on. Next, I felt completely at ease.
And I wanted more of that feeling. This is how I discovered sketching.
By the way, this is the drawing.


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