To Draw Or Not To Draw...That is the Question.

I haven't updated the blog in a good long while. It is time for another entry, and...actually this is going to be something of a rant. Yesterday, I posted a silly picture of a dinosaur wearing a fancy hat - I doodled it out myself, snapped a picture on my phone and uploaded it to Facebook. I was feeling silly that night and wanted to express myself - I was really just expecting some likes, maybe a comment or two having a good chuckle at my drawing of a Tyrannosaurus wearing a top hat. Just a quick five minute doodle. Nothing more than that.

...Instead, I got an indecipherable comment telling me my job was somehow more secure for having posted the picture (which doesn't even begin to make sense), and then when I pressed for an explanation, he said that I would be better served doing other things and, basically, my drawing sucked. Which, initially, I found enormously rude and very, very obnoxious (an opinion I still hold, by the way.). I am well aware that I'm not a very good artist, I don't need people telling me that. I wasn't trying to be Rembrandt. I was being silly. (By the way, I deleted that comment chain if you go to look at the picture. I'm not going to name names.).  

But then I started to think about it and the more I thought about it, the more it began to piss me off. (Pardon my French.) and all the implications that went with it. Apparently, I shouldn't ever do anything I'm not good at, because I would be better off doing other things. Who cares if I have fun doing it? Who cares if it only took five minutes of my time? Pfft. Who cares if its only a hobby I indulge in occasionally with no intention of ever pursuing that as a job or career? Nope. I'm a terrible artist. Therefore, of course, drawing is beneath me and I shouldn't do it ever under any circumstances, and if I do I shouldn't share it ever because it's not super good (or even very good). Because my time and talent could go elsewhere. Oh yes, of course. 

I could on in this vein for some time. But I won't, I think I've made my point. But because I can and because that particular comment annoyed me so much, I'm going to continue posting random doodles on Facebook every day this week, starting tonight. Whatever the hell I want to draw. Purely because I can.