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My kid asked me why I still have my first Wacom tablet from 2005 in a box, and I told them it's because that's where I learned to draw with a mouse felt wrong.
I was showing my 12-year-old some old work from my DeviantArt days, and they pointed at a really jagged line in a 2007 piece and said, 'It looks like you were fighting it,' which made me realize how much just having the right tool changes the feeling, not just the look, of making something.
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hugo_bennett1mo ago
Remember trying to write a school report on a busted keyboard missing the 'e' key? You spend more time copying letters from a webpage than actually writing. Sometimes the tool just gets in the way of the thing you're trying to do.
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markhall1mo ago
lol oh man @susana66 you are spot on, fighting a tool is exactly what it feels like. I remember in high school I had this laptop where the 's' key was completely dead and I had to copy paste that letter from a random Notepad doc every single time I wrote an essay. It was such a pain, like the whole writing flow just stopped dead. You couldn't get into the zone because your brain was stuck on "ok where do I find the letter 's' again?" instead of actually thinking about what you wanted to say. Totally agree with both of you, sometimes the tool just becomes the whole problem and you forget what you were even trying to do in the first place.
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