Drawing doodles as a routine to improve my mental health

How getting back into drawing thanks to buying a tablet helped me recover my passion for creating art and dealing with the pressure of my daily life.

Early last year I decided that, while I very much enjoyed drawing on paper with a pen or a pencil and waste pages and pages on my notebooks taking notes, drafting sketches or drawing wireframes from the ideas I was working on, there must be a way to make it in a more sustainable way. That is why I decided to get myself an iPad Pro, with one of those pencils that when you draw on them it feels like real inc getting into the paper when it touches the screen.

What I wasn’t aware is that getting that additional screen with a digital pencil for work-related matters would also help me cope with stressful situations and help with my mental health by bringing back one of the things that made me get into the field of design.

Reclaiming an old habit

One of the first things that I started as a kid was to draw random doodles, I couldn’t spend much time on them otherwise I would lose all the interest and leave them undone and somehow that’s something I carried with me over the years, to the point that it’s one of the main…