1. The legendary Chicago Times movie review Roger Ebert on the increased fluidity in his writing after suffering a stroke:

…This autumn it has become undeniable. My writing has improved.
By that I don’t mean it’s objectively better from the reader’s point of view. I mean it has expanded within my mind, reaches deeper, emerges more clearly, is more satisfactory. Sometimes I glory in it—not the quality of the prose, but the quality of the experience. I find myself writing more, because I will return to that zone longer.

2. New Yorker illustrator Bob Staake demonstrating how to use Photoshop (not Illustrator and not even the latest version) to make a most beautiful digital drawing: