A wasted Night
I'm having a shit of a time coming up with a design for Christmas cards this year - has to be effective & simple so it can be done quickly without looking like crap.  It's so long since I've done any drawing.  I have the same problem with writing if I haven't for a while.  Takes the brain a while to catch onto what is required.  I should just give u[ & go to bed.  I've tried five so far and suddenly, I'm back drawing flowers.  Then again, maybe that's not a bad thing.  People must be getting sick of my cats.  Flowers, though, are a bit more complex and difficult - realistic ones at least. Maybe I'll try a few and see how it goes - though I haven't got all that much time for the overseas and the interstate ones.  I might have to resort to bought ones again.
It's another example of the the compartmentalisation of the brain - well, mine anyway.  Both the drawing and the writing are 'creative' activities, but one is more purely from the imagination (writing) through a medium that requires a knowledge of rules that make it intelligible to everyone else.  It's imaginative, but requires formalisation.  The other is merely a translation of what is seen into another medium (drawing) and there is less adherence to rules.  Pictorial requires less interpretation on the part of the perceiver - at least when it's illustration.  The illustrator has done all the work in that instance and all the audience sees is the flat representation of someone's idea of - say, a flower.  But writing of that flower is a very different exercise - all the words required to describe shape and shade - it's far simpler to draw it.  The colours in a  flower, when there is more than one, is no simple affair.  Neither is writing it.  I should add that drawing it's not all that simple, but the colour is already in the pencil, the dark or lighter hues are dependent either on another pencil or the thickness of the application.
And none of this is helping me get on with it.  I think it's time for bed.
Might write more on this, just to tease myself.