The Pleasure Of Finding Out How To Draw Things Is All It Has To Be
learned to program when I was ten. At the time, games were published as source code in magazines, and you were supposed to type over the code and then had a game. As I typed in the code, one moment, I noticed the structure of the code and how the games were built.
Could I make a game like that? I ventured into constructing my code from what I had remembered from the code I had typed. Not long after that, at fourteen, I sold my first three computer games. They were published the same way, in magazines, for other people to type over. It was the first money I made with programming.
This would repeat itself later: can I make a programming language? And what about a 3d engine?
Memory drawing has the same quality for me. I see a nice image and wonder if I could draw that myself. I repeatedly try until I get why the image works, and I can draw it from memory, leaving me feeling great afterward. And then it is on to the next.
Many artists started like that at a young age. “Woah, Spiderman looks cool! I wonder if I can draw that!” And then being able to draw it from memory later is satisfying.
Being able to construct something seemingly out of nothing is satisfying.
Yours sincerely,
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