foxboylucien:

Damn, I thought I was out of school for the summer! Very well, I’ll do my best. Be warned: I’m not good at articulating my thoughts but I did my best with my tired mind.

What I like best about colouring is that it relaxes me. I get into this groove where I’m not even thinking anymore, I’m just completely lost in what I’m doing. I feel like it’s been ten minutes, when really it’s been an hour and suddenly it’s dark out and everyone’s gone to bed. I only get into that groove when I know exactly how a picture needs to be coloured, though. If I don’t know how to shade something or what colour would look best, I just sit there and stare at the paper (hoping it will colour itself?)

Tied to that, colouring is the perfect opportunity for me to listen to music. One of my favourite things to do is put on some amazing music, and a lot of the time I’ll just stare out the window or something. But if I have some art I’m working on, it gives me an excuse to listen to music for a long time, because I can do both! For example, I’m (finally) colouring Cardan’s hair, which gives me an excuse to listen to my ACOTAR playlist on repeat for a couple hours! The only problem is when my favourite songs come on I get distracted and stop what I’m working on to just kind of stare out the window? I swear I have the tree in front of my house memorized (fun fact that you didn’t ask for: that’s the tree I’m using as reference for my Jurdan piece!)

The only “artistic” reason I love colouring is because it allows me to create something out of nothing. In a few minutes or hours, I can turn a blank page into a portrait of someone I love, or a fluffy doodle of a book character. I can take what I see and feel and translate it onto a page, and then share those feeling with another person. I’m not good with words (which you can probably tell by now), but I can convey complex emotion in the faces I draw. Hell, I can convey my own emotions in an abstract mess of colour then throw it away walk away feeling better then I did before.

But really though, it’s mostly just fun.