I love art. Drawing particularly. It helps me relax but also imagine a different life.
History has shown drawing has been a founding means of expressing oneself .
How awesome. Do you draw? 
I wish! Drawing is one of the easiest ways to show people something visually.
Grab a pencil. Remember art is in the eye of the beholder. 
That is true! Since you can use so many different things to draw with, it is the most used artistic activity!
I prefer charcoal and thick paper. It add's an element of shading that can not be matched. 
Have you used any other forms to draw on like cardboard, plastic, canvas or leather?
I do some leather drawing and then I etch into the leather. Most horse saddles or stuff for the Renn fair
of public expression throughout human history. It is one of the simplest and most efficient means of communicating visual ideas. The wide availability of drawing instruments makes drawing one of the most common artistic activities.
In addition to its more artistic forms, drawing is frequently used in commercial illustration, animation, architecture, engineering and technical drawing. A quick, freehand drawing, usually not intended as a finished work, is sometimes called a sketch. An artist who practices or works in technical drawing may be called a drafter, draftsman
and skill for drawing from an early age. His mother was, in many ways, instrumental in his decision to pursue art as a vocation. Barthé once said: "When I was crawling on the floor, my mother gave me paper and pencil to play with. It kept me quiet while she did her errands. At six years old I started painting. A lady my mother sewed for gave me a set of watercolors. By that time, I could draw very well."
Barthé continued making drawings throughout