I may be slightly biased but I think drawing is a great creative outlet, there's such a low barrier to entry, all you need is a drawing implement and something, a pencil on paper, your finger through the sand on the beach, etc.

 Of course everybody has their own forms of creative expression, whether it be music or writing or something else, but sometimes the idea of creating can be quite intimidating. Art block is a mental barrier I often experience where I won't want to pick up the pencil for weeks and honestly I feel worse when I'm not being creative.

I want to make something that takes some of the pressure out of creating so that artists of all skill levels can enjoy the process of drawing for what it is.

I already have a bit of experience with this. After the leaving cert, because I didn't live very close to my school, I would keep in touch with my old classmates through Discord calls.  On call we would would occasionally play drawing games like Gartic Phone or doodle on collaborative canvases using Magma. Not everyone who participated were artists, but even still they had fun because there was no expectation of masterpieces being made. 

We would make up our own drawing games, like an Exquisite Corpse-style comic creating game, where we take turns illustrating each panel, or one where you must create a character using three randomly generated adjectives, or another where we would interpret randomly generated pixels into drawings.

In this one we tried to fill this photograph with as many black cats as we could.

Scott Steffes said in his interview that one of the goals of Different Strokes was to make a game that, while being a fun diversion, also improves the player's drawing skills. I think this is something true to my old drawing games with friends, and something I'd like to address in my research project. Hopefully what I create will make drawing less daunting for others, and the exercises they learn from it can be reused later on whenever they're feeling art blocked.