thats a good question, why do any of us draw?

hmm, got me thinking now.

To improve,
learn,
amuse myself,
amuse others,
relax,
express myself,
communicate
and its more interesting than tv.

I agree with those reasons, though TV is so mind-numbing that one can't avoid falling under its grip.
Every night when I return home I say to myself I'm gonna draw something but I turn the telly on during the news and I forget what I was meaning to do

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divulgation... lol. you mean, like, popular science reading, no? 'S a good word, though sounds... pretentious, maybe.
Philosophy is a wonderful thing to have at the beginning of an art book since art really comes down to philosophy anyway. Even those of us who produce mostly "technical" art or scientific illustration are indulging in a bit of philosophy. Art helps one to center one's self and encourages ACTIVE thinking. I use "art" here in a wider context than just the visual aspect of creating an image by also including the arts of literary composition and music composition and interpretation. It's an interesting question, "What drives any of us to the act of creating?". It's one that still has those of us with a philosophical bent scratching our heads. There's certainly no evolutionary advantage (unless you include tool making under the heading "Art") to our drive to create beauty or shock the soul out of our fellow human beings. Will this question ever be answered fully and satisfactorily?

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"... to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." ~Issac Newton

Yes, popular science reading, as in DK encyclopedias, National Geographic, etc.
It encourages active thinking only when there's some type of... curb, for lack of better word, to just letting your imagination go wild.
My response to that quandary "What drives any of us to the act of creating?" is "The lack of anything better to do." Believe me it responds quite accurately when one comes to think of it

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Yea, I guess... but somehow it doesn't completely ring true. I have all sorts of better things to do than compose and yet I can spend hours at the piano (1875 Kimball, out of tune and in bad need of some *ahem* tune-up (the action is a little slow), not for sale or trade) improvising, and when it comes to visual art... I lose myself in it too. So it can not just be that we create for lack of anything better to do. Creating can be a major time "waster".

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"... to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." ~Issac Newton