In the Ebata, I used to order my senior daughter to make illustrations.

Both she and I were very tired to operate draw software on the PC, and finally we have decided that

We don't use any draw software more.

There are some reasons why I have decided. The primary reason is that any draw software is troublesome.

The daughter as an illustrator said that,

- Enormous stress-out of different place between drawing line, and displaying line,

- Annoying to push bottoms to change pen size and eraser point by point,

- Painful for operating PC when working of the concept from the beginning,

- need more time to color and to modify them.

On the other hand, I as an ordered thought that,

- taking less than two hours for the making period.

- No need to research the draw software operation we didn't know,

- Easy to share the concept, and to point out modification, and ask the severe deadline.

And as a finishing stroke,

- I like hand drawn works of my daughter than that were made by the draw software.

"Please draw a picture within six hours"

"Impossible"

"You may draw it not to use PC.

When I saw this work, I thought that

What is a reason that we have to keep using draw software?

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I misunderstood "creation" fundamentally

In my case, I could know the pleasure of writing my columns, thanks to word processor. But it is not suitable for all field of "creation".

Especially, the pleasures of drawing are generated by not only making image but also, touching, watching, and feeling the pressure of the pens.

On the second thought, I also try to print out my columns and modify some phase with a red pen, again and again.

I know experimentally that we could not get whole image of document just on PC's display.

As my wife's case, she always prints out all kind of photos by digital camera, and fixes the pictures in albums.

The albums are multi-purpose viewers that enable us to review our daughter’s growing reports in a few seconds, and show us more than one hundred pictures at the same time.

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Now, in the Ebata, the nostalgia command to be returned to analog is going.

For the moment, we have no plan to use the draw software again.

The only case might be just for me, because I can't make a picture by my hand.