A rare hobby. Unusual hobbies of Russian writers

10. Let's ride a roller coaster!

It turns out that riding roller coasters can be not just a hobby, but a real passion.

The 78-year-old American rode the Pittsburgh-area roller roller coaster 90 times in one day, completing 4 thousand laps.

Another obsessed person, Vic Clement, spent about five hours on the Jack Rabbit roller.

He has been visiting the attraction since 1959, where he typically makes up to 20 rides in a single day. By the way, he is a member of the Society of Roller Coaster Enthusiasts.

9. Appearing in the background on TV news

Paul Yarrow from London certainly has a hobby: he loves to appear on the TV screen.

Therefore, as soon as they start filming the news somewhere, he is right there - in the background.

He has already been featured in news coverage for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky News.

It remains a mystery how Paul finds out where the next story should be filmed.

8. $10 for a stranger

When Reed Sandridge lost his job last year, he took up a new hobby.

Every day he gives $10 to a stranger who, in his opinion, really needs it.

He doesn’t expect anything in return, his soul just becomes lighter.

His mother, a miner's daughter whom he always remembers for her kindness, taught his son that in difficult times a person must help his neighbor who is in even greater need.

Sandridge uses his savings and unemployment benefits for the “gifts.” He keeps strict records of expenses in a black notebook and talks about the people he helps on his blog.

7. Moo

When it comes to mooing, a true expert appears on the scene: 10-year-old Austin Siok.

This American fifth-grader won the annual mooing competition in Wisconsin.

And all because his moo was the best: he beat not only 80 competitors, but also all the cows.

As a reward, Austin received $1,000, a jacket with a picture of a cow, a gold cow bell, and an award from a sponsor.

6. Collecting ecstasy tablets

The Dane collected ecstasy tablets for 20 years. His collection already numbered 2,400 tablets of all colors and sizes when it was stolen in 2009.

The thief was not found. Despite the illegal nature of the collection, its owner still reported the theft.

He fears that someone who swallows these tablets could become poisoned, since the collection contains 40 poisonous specimens.

5. Coloring dogs

The photo above is not a tiger at all, but a painted dog.

It's a new hobby that has amazed many Chinese: they cut and dye their own dogs' fur to give them the appearance of another animal.

The Chinese accepted the new fashion with great enthusiasm, especially since cutting and slightly tinting the wool has long been practiced in this country.

As statistics show, the cost of maintaining and caring for pets increased in the Middle Kingdom by 500% in the period from 1999-2000.

4. Corpse Guy

47-year-old American Chuck Lamb, also known as The Dead Body Guy, probably has the strangest hobby in the world: he likes to pretend to be dead.

Moreover, he takes photographs of himself and posts them on his website.

Chuck started this hobby in 2005, and to this day his interest in it has not waned. A year later, his website was visited by more than 32 million people, newspapers, radio and television started talking about him.

Chuck explains his strange hobby by the fact that he always wanted to act in films and on television.

Actually, this is a rather strange hobby for a married man with six children.

Chuck admits that he has no acting skills and is not particularly attractive, so his acting career is closed to him. But with popularity - everything is fine!

3. The eternal plaintiff

Despite the fact that one Jonathan Lee is a federal prison inmate in Kentucky, he was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the person who filed the most lawsuits.

What was his next step? Right! He sued the Guinness World Records staff, who, he said, "did not have the right to publish my work, my rightful masterpieces."

Jonathan does not hide the fact that he was treated in a psychiatric hospital.

Among his many "masterpieces" are lawsuits against Plato, Nostradamus, former President George W. Bush, Somali pirates, Britney Spears, Buddhist monks, the President of Iran and manufacturers of artificial oil.

The list goes on and on...

2. Car tattoo

Taiwanese pensioner Li Zongxiong has a very strange hobby: applying it to his vehicles.

A 71-year-old workshop owner writes chaste words from Buddhist texts on his car.

Since 1991, he has already painted a car, a motorcycle and two trucks. There is practically no “living space” left on them: mirrors, windshields, bodies, doors, wheels - and even license plates are painted.

True, this hobby brought nothing but trouble to its owner: the police think that he is painting other people’s cars. And it’s true - who would dare to damage their own vehicles?

Li, who has only a primary education, said most of the words were taken from Buddhist texts. Lee's son says the family currently prohibits his father from buying a new car, no matter how much it costs. It'll ruin it anyway.

But the grandson promises, when he grows up and saves money, to give his grandfather a bus so that he can continue his hobby.

1. Wool bust

At first glance, this hobby may seem akin to madness. But only for the first...

An 84-year-old grandmother from Sussex (UK) knits from wool... women's breasts!

They turn out to be in demand: with their help, expectant mothers master the basics of feeding babies.

Over the course of 3 years, more than 100 “breasts” were knitted, which did not bring any income to the craftswoman (they only pay for the cost of the material). So for an old lady, this is really a hobby.

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Unusual hobbies of Russian writers

Many famous writers could not imagine their life without their favorite hobby. For some it was quite harmless, for others it was extravagant. For example, Leo Tolstoy at the age of 67 learned to ride a bicycle and fell in love with this activity. “Culture.RF” talks about other interesting hobbies of Russian classics.

Mikhail Lermontov and painting

Drawing was more than just a compulsory academic discipline for Mikhail Lermontov. A relative of the poet, Akim Shan-Girey, recalling his childhood years, wrote that Lermontov had a love for fine art at a very early age: “...he was happily gifted with aptitude for the arts; Even then he painted quite fairly well in watercolors and sculpted entire paintings from painted wax...”

Mikhail Lermontov. Pyatigorsk 1837-1838. State Literary Museum, Moscow

Mikhail Lermontov. Attack of the Life Guards Hussars near Warsaw. 1837. State Lermontov Museum-Reserve “Tarkhany”, village of Lermontovo, Penza region

Lermontov's first mentor in painting was the artist Alexander Sosnitsky: it was he who prepared the young man to enter the Moscow Noble University Boarding School. Later, Lermontov took painting lessons from the eminent Russian artist Pyotr Zabolotsky, who later painted two portraits of the poet himself - in 1837 and 1840.

Lermontov was a versatile artist. He painted landscapes, portraits, genre scenes, military scenes, illustrations for his own works, and even caricatures. His best works are associated with the Caucasus - these are paintings in the spirit of romantic painting, painted during and after his first exile. To date, 13 paintings by Lermontov are known, executed in oil on canvas, cardboard and wood, more than 40 watercolors and more than 300 drawings and sketches.

Nikolai Gogol and needlework

Nikolai Gogol was one of the most mysterious figures in Russian classics. The writer had not only strange habits and phobias, but also hobbies. For example, Gogol collected miniature editions of books that we today call “pocket books.” Sometimes he spent fabulous sums on books that were of no literary interest to him at all simply because they were miniature. So, although he was indifferent to the exact sciences, he ordered himself a mathematical encyclopedia only because of its sixteenth-sheet format.

Handicraft supplies of Nikolai Gogol's sisters. Photo: artcoutur.livejournal.com

The writer had another unusual hobby. According to the literary critic and close friend of the classic Pavel Annensky, Gogol enjoyed doing handicrafts. With great diligence he cut out his cambric scarves and mended his overcoats. He most likely inherited the ability to handle a needle from his four sisters: Anna, Maria, Olga and Elizabeth.

The writer was also interested in cooking. He loved to treat his friends to homemade dumplings and dumplings. Gogol's favorite drink was goat's milk, which he cooked according to a special recipe with the addition of rum, for some reason calling it “gogol-mogol,” although real eggnog is a completely different dish made from sugar and eggs.

Vladimir Nabokov and butterflies

Young Nabokov was an enthusiastic teenager with a keen interest in the world around him - and he also adored butterflies. The love for these fragile insects later grew into real scientific research: Nabokov proved himself to be a serious entomologist researcher and was even the first to describe some species of butterflies in his scientific articles.

Butterflies from the collection of Vladimir Nabokov. Photo: ipetersburg.ru

Butterflies from the collection of Vladimir Nabokov. Photo: static.tonkosti.ru

The butterfly became a symbol of his work: researchers counted 570 mentions of this insect in Nabokov’s works. The writer has said more than once that if he had stayed in Russia, he would most likely have been a modest research assistant in some provincial zoological museum.

Nabokov studied butterflies wherever he lived: in St. Petersburg, then in Crimea, then in France and in America. As a result, Nabokov chose Switzerland for his permanent residence. When asked why he decided to settle there, Nabokov invariably answered that the main reason was butterflies. Over the almost 70 years of the writer’s life in exile, he collected several impressive collections, but only butterflies from the American and Swiss periods have survived to this day.

He loved the writer and boxing. As a teenager, Nabokov worked with a personal trainer, hit a punching bag, and had the habit of punching, in the English style, “with the outer knuckles of the fist, and not the bottom of it,” which irritated his classmates. In the poor emigrant years, boxing allowed Nabokov not to be left without a roof over his head: he gave not only tennis and French lessons, but also boxing. Moreover, his knowledge of boxing helped Nabokov naturalistically write the fight scene in the novel “Feat”:

“Darwin and Martyn, instantly clenching their fists, raised their arms bent at the elbows (the right one shields the stomach, the left one moves like a piston) and began to step elastically and briskly on tense legs, as if dancing. ... but when Darwin’s fist suddenly flew out and Martyn was cracked in the jaw, everything changed: the fear disappeared, my soul felt good, light, and the ringing in my head from the shake sang about Sonya, the real culprit of the fight.”

Alexander Kuprin and aviation

The author of “The Pomegranate Bracelet” and “The Duel” had an exotic hobby - by modern standards, he was a real extreme sports enthusiast. Alexander Kuprin was attracted by the romance of aviation. Being a man with a powerful build, he took to the skies in hot air balloons and airplanes and descended to the seabed in a diving suit.

In 1910, they realized their common dream in Odessa with the help of the Farman, a then popular French-made aircraft. The pilot and passenger were sitting in the open cockpit of the “flying bookcase”: aviator Zaikin was in front, Kuprin was behind him. The flight ended in an accident - the enthusiasts almost paid for their dream with their own lives. There were so many impressions that they were enough for a whole essay “My Flight”. Later, Kuprin wrote many more stories dedicated to the birth of aviation and brave pilots: “Bird People”, “Magic Flight”, “Dreams”, “Sergei Utochkin”, “Sashka and Yashka”, “Lost Heart”.

When the aviation department of the aeronautical school opened at the airfield in Gatchina in 1910, Kuprin began to often come to the airfield. He made friends with the pilots Prokofiev, with the pilot Konovalov - they often lifted him into the air, and he, in turn, dedicated stories to them. Kuprin forever retained an enthusiastic attitude towards the “people of the air”, and put the feeling of flight above “the wonders of the most wonderful of fairy tales.”

Man is a creative person, always looking for something new and unusual. Each of us has our own hobby. As a rule, this is reading books, writing poems, drawing, composing music, dancing or something like that. But there are extraordinary people who are interested in unusual hobbies.

They go beyond their usual interests, trying to create and show society something unusual that most people could not even think about before. Such people are not divided by gender; the most important difference between them and others is their extraordinary thinking, unusual fantasy and imagination.

Card castles

Who likes to play cards? There will certainly be a large number of these. But there are not so many daredevils who dare to build entire castles out of cards. At first, there were several dreamers who decided to build small houses out of boredom, but Brian Berg went further and built entire card castles that were taller than himself. His works were included in the book of records.

Dog tuning

While many people are more or less accustomed to houses of cards, the next unusual hobby is still incomprehensible to many. We are talking about dog grooming, or rather about their tuning, which is done abroad. There are salons for grooming four-legged animals in many cities, but here we are not talking about a simple haircut, but about expressing your imagination. The most important thing is the consent of the dog owner, and professionals bring their ideas to life, doing something unimaginable with their four-legged clients. This is the most striking example of combining work with a hobby, which, apparently, brings a lot of pleasure.

Pumpkin carving

People who are interested in carving pumpkins do it not only on Halloween, but on regular days too. Ray Willefen began to engage in this unusual hobby from early childhood. After wood carving, working with the pumpkin went like clockwork. He manages to make truly unusual things from this ordinary vegetable.

Drawings on dirty cars

It turns out that you can paint not only on canvases and walls, but also on dirty cars. The main tools are dirty car glass and brushes, and voila - the drawing is ready. You can depict anything on such a “canvas”: from majestic castles to portraits.

Sand drawings

Of all the images, sand paintings are perhaps the most short-lived. They look amazing though. This art is practiced by real professionals, because drawing on sand is not so easy. The first person who decided to engage in such drawings was Jim Denevan, a self-taught artist, but his masterpieces still delight many to this day.

Images of nails

It would seem that artists paint with everything else, but only Marcus Levin thought of depicting a picture with nails. Today this Briton has many followers who create unusual paintings with just the help of nails. This work is hard and painstaking, because one small but incorrectly hammered nail can ruin the whole picture.

Pencil sculptures

There are many miniature masters in the world who create their masterpieces on the points of pencils. The founder of this art is Dalton Getty, who has been carving unusual things from pencils for a long time.

Here are the most unusual hobbies that cause a storm of emotions and delight among those around you. Or maybe you have also heard about some non-standard hobbies?

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Do you remember what you collected? For example, my brother raved about stamps, my son bought dinosaur figurines from all the stores, and my niece collects “impressions” by traveling to different countries. But I’m curious, what are the most interesting hobbies in the world?
It seems to me that for a modern person, a hobby is a kind of outlet that allows him to stop being a responsible employee, an employee of a serious organization, a boss, even a family man, to relieve himself of the burden of obligations and remain a child who selflessly sorts out colorful candy wrappers from a “secret” box , covering his head with a blanket.

Of course, “candy wrappers” can be very, very expensive, and some interesting hobbies definitely cannot be placed in a box or even covered with a blanket, however, the essence remains the same - a person does something for himself that is pleasant and interesting only to him .

A hobby is not always about gathering and collecting; it can be intangible, but in any case it develops the personality. Hobbies are different for everyone.

There are many different hobbies, but I will rank those that seem interesting to me personally. And you can find ideas for your hobby.

Collecting fragrances

Many girls collect fragrances

This is a very exciting hobby for girls, which can have several subtypes: you can collect perfume bottles, especially such rarities as products by Lalique and other famous artists, you can selflessly look for well-preserved vintages, tiny miniatures, perfume boxes, and also compare ancient scents with their modern descendants.

The most interesting thing for me is to use my collection according to my mood, then it becomes a real hobby, and not just an accumulation of bottles and boxes that become covered with dust in a chest of drawers. Personally, I like vintage perfumes, especially rare scents that don’t “hit your nose” on public transport and don’t seem monotonous and flat. Each such smell transports you to its own era and makes you try on the image of that time.

Construction of houses of cards

Building houses from cards

This extremely meditative activity is akin to contemplating a candle flame or flowing water. At the same time, as my beloved Hercule Poirot said, “when I work with my hands, the gray matter begins to function much better.”

Indeed, fine motor skills develop memory and contribute to the acuity of perception, and precise hand gestures force one to focus on movements. This unloads the brain and makes it possible to solve problems that have been tormenting you for a long time. And what can be done from such simple objects as ordinary playing cards can surprise even experienced architects. I think this hobby is more suitable for men.

An original hobby is breeding crickets

In China, this is one of the most ancient and beloved hobbies. Here special cages are built for these insects, in many cases resembling real palaces. Insects are bred for their singing - crickets chirp surprisingly melodiously in the evenings and at night. It has a fascinating effect on people - real music of nature.

By the way, it’s quite possible to try this hobby here too - crickets are sold in pet stores, keeping and feeding them is very simple, just sprinkle them with a handful of oatmeal, and regularly “toss” a cabbage leaf or lettuce.

Making beaded jewelry

Beading has become a wonderful hobby for girls

And this activity works like meditation, especially knitting and weaving beaded cords and plaits. Monotonous hand movements leave the brain free to work, and it successfully thinks over the current situation, and the subconscious, “breaking free,” chooses the most correct decision.

In addition to psychological relief, beading makes it possible to get unique jewelry, which is now very popular and fashionable. The ancient art of bead weaving is being revived and is becoming a much sought after hobby throughout the world.

Embroidery of paintings and icons with beads, beads, pearls and semi-precious stones

Embroidering pictures as a hobby

This type of hobby arose along with the passion for beadwork, but in Rus', icon frames have been embroidered with small northern pearls since ancient times. This is very painstaking work, but it is a real creative process, although it is carried out by people who are sometimes very far from art or church canons.

Beaded paintings and icons are unique designer items that can be not just a hobby, but also a source of significant profit. Many collectors are happy to purchase such valuable and unusual paintings. Just imagine what a great gift this would be for the boss! By the way, I wrote about what to give to the boss, who, as a rule, has everything. Be curious!

Construction of models from scrap materials

An interesting hobby for men is building models

This hobby usually comes from childhood. Many boys and girls made chests of drawers from shoe boxes, built models of airplanes and ships, made toy furniture and even houses from matches.

Having survived into adulthood, this love becomes an interesting hobby, and some masters become real artists, creating unique works of art from pine cones, branches, bark, pieces of fabric, boxes, clay and even salt dough.

Breeding house plants

Growing orchids is an exciting hobby for women

Perhaps this is one of the most common and popular hobbies. However, it can be complicated by growing, for example, orchids in an apartment.

These are exceptionally beautiful flowers that retain their decorative value for up to 9 months. Many orchids can adapt well to living conditions in an apartment, for example, butterfly orchids - phalaenopsis. For others, you will need to equip special greenhouses or create conditions similar to their native climate. But with good care, these exotic plants will thank their owners with lush, rich and luxurious flowering.

Breeding mini-orchids deserves special attention. They are quite rare in culture, but do not take up much space; the collection can fit even in a very modest room.

Feeding birds and stray animals

This is one of the most noble and selfless hobbies. Such people deserve all gratitude and respect, because for the most part it is not rich people who do this. They spend their personal savings on animal feed, making sure that they always have water and food in cold weather and hot weather.

Vitsin loved feeding pigeons

One of these bright people was the wonderful Soviet actor Georgy Vitsin, who was very fond of pigeons. Being already a very old man, he walked the streets of Moscow every day, and his pigeons literally flew behind him in flocks. He always had seeds and bread in his pockets for his pets.

Such people take care of stray dogs and cats, placing them with new owners and helping to treat them if the animals are sick. If there were more such people, it seems to me that there would be less cruelty towards our smaller brothers.

Girls usually collect toys

Some people collect porcelain dolls, others collect robots and transformers. This hobby also comes from childhood and it brings no less joy to an adult than at five years old. Then a gift of a doll or a car gave a feeling of boundless happiness, and this feeling remains the same now. Each thing found is another little life lived, a reminder of a long-gone and forgotten time.

This type of hobby allows not only to satisfy the owner’s desire to own some rarities, but also preserves for posterity many things that might have been lost.

Tourism

This wonderful and useful hobby can become a passion and the meaning of your whole life. It has many different types - from the desire to visit as many different countries as possible to extreme types of tourism.

Extreme tourism is a hobby for real men

Wilderness survival has become very popular lately. A person goes to the desert, jungle, taiga or to a desert island with a minimum number of things, and most often with only a knife, and tries to live there without help for a certain period of time. Of course, this hobby is not for everyone, but people like Bear Grylls and his show “Lost” force real men and strong-willed women to risk their lives to prove that a person has almost limitless possibilities.

Collecting sand

Not all people know that sand from different parts of the world and different places differs not only in composition, but also in texture, color and shades. From glass bottles with sand samples from all over the globe you can create an amazingly beautiful composition, because there is even black sand in the world. It is formed by ancient lava rocks, which, under the influence of air and soil erosion over millions of years, have turned into entire beaches of black sand.

There are several masters in the world who create amazing paintings from multi-colored sand. Interest in collecting sand was also spurred by a massive outbreak of sand animation classes.

Cooking

A great hobby for girls is making rolls

This is one of the most delicious and useful hobbies, and even with a huge selection of topics. You can collect cookbooks or recipes, collect and cook only exotic dishes, or revive ancient recipes of national cuisine.

You can get carried away with cooking meat dishes or bake amazing sweets, master the intricacies of making sushi and sashimi, bake bread in a Russian oven or prepare kvass with sbiten. This hobby will bring great benefits to your family, friends and acquaintances, because they will be fed the fruits of your labor - the most refined and delicious dishes.

Embroidery with gold and silver thread is a great hobby for women

The art of embroidery with the finest gold and silver thread is a rather expensive and rare hobby.

In the old days, this type of art was mainly owned by women from high society and nuns in nunneries. Nowadays there is no longer any need to pull a thread from real gold and silver; there are excellent, durable and beautiful threads made from artificial materials. But the works they embroidered look no less luxurious than ancient samples.

This hobby requires high skill and skill, as well as excellent patience and perseverance, as well as good eyesight, because it is very painstaking and slow work. But the resulting result may surprise you with its beauty and unusualness.

Collecting salt samples

Many people will be surprised by this type of hobby - they say, salt is salt in Africa. Of course, its composition is almost identical everywhere. However, there are many varieties of salt, natural or obtained through special processes. There is smoked and peppered salt, with the aroma of raspberry and lemongrass, sugar-white and black, sea and fossil, table and holy - Thursday.

Salt is a unique substance, without which there is no life and any food loses its taste and attractiveness.

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Pumpkin carving is an interesting and rare hobby

Artwork by Ray Willafen

A year ago, Ray was invited to the White House to carve a pumpkin for Halloween!

For me these are the most interesting hobbies. And for you? Let's share our hobbies! Send photos of your collections. I will definitely publish them on the blog.

After a person stops using alcohol or drugs, after a while there is a vacuum that the hobby helps fill. Any narcologist will confirm: to overcome one addiction more easily, you need to replace it with another. For example, dependence on work, a beloved woman, a child, someone goes to church. And some of my former patients have found a new interesting hobby.

Unfortunately, today not everyone can afford to travel during their vacation. Alas, this is the reality. And here your favorite hobby will come to your aid. Be sure to read the article on my blog. You will find a lot of interesting things for yourself!

Whatever your hobby, the main thing is that it does not turn into aimless collecting and does not take away strength, money and health from your family. Only then will a hobby be useful when it brings joy and benefit to others. Do you agree?

You don't know how to entertain yourself in the evening? Don't you want to do cross stitch or go horseback riding? Look at the list of unusual hobbies. These classes are non-trivial and interesting. Yes, they will require you to invest effort and money, but then you will be able to do what you love.

Sand painting

One of the unusual hobbies, which became popular thanks to Ksenia Simonova, has captured the minds of people. Drawing with sand is something that even a person far from art can learn. Yes, drawing skills will undoubtedly be required. But drawing silhouette images is much easier than doing similar work with pencil and paper. You should come up with or find a suitable image and then use your fingers to draw it on the sand. This exciting activity develops creative thinking.

If you don't mind tracing images on a flat surface, you can create designs inside the bottle. This activity can become one of your creative hobbies. To do this you will need sand or colored salt. You need to pour the material into the bottle in layers, and then use a long sharp stick to create a pattern. A little evening practice, and you will be creating non-trivial handmade gifts within an hour. This hobby can even be turned into a business.

Scotch tape paintings

Creative people use a creative approach to create their masterpieces. For example, Max Zorn, a Dutch artist, uses tape as a material for his works. This unusual hobby made him famous throughout the world. But you can also try yourself in this art form. There is nothing complicated here. If you don't know how to draw, but have a good feel for shape, you can print out silhouettes of people and “color” them with tape. It's not difficult at all.

It is enough to break the drawing into light and shadow parts, and then sculpt the required shape. This way you can create not only portraits. You can draw nature, architecture or cartoon scenes. Even a primitive image made using this technique will look amazing. If it’s difficult for you to immediately get into the idea, you can start by copying several paintings by the Dutchman. This will help you understand the essence of working with tape. And don’t think that copying is not creativity. At first, all the famous artists did was to redraw the paintings of recognized masters.

Coffee bean paintings

Do you want to find unusual hobbies? Consider creating art from coffee beans. Even people who do not know how to draw can master this type of creativity. The fact is that creating silhouettes is much easier than regular full-fledged paintings. You only need to print the appropriate image in the lines and fill it. With just a week of practice, you can create your first piece of art. The main thing in this type of creativity is accuracy and painstakingness.

Ebru

There are different types of hobbies. Some of them are creative, others are sports, and others are aimed at self-development and self-improvement. Ebru is a creative hobby. What does this incomprehensible word mean?

Ebru is the Turkish art of water painting. The basin is filled with a special solution, which can be purchased at any art store, and then paint is poured into the water using a knitting needle. Paintings are created by mixing layers of color pigment. Do you think it's difficult? No. A little practice, creativity and a strong imagination will help you become a good artist.

slate art

What are some hobbies that help develop creative skills? One of them is slate art. And if you thought that such work was done with a pencil, then you are mistaken. They are created on a pencil, or rather, on its lead.

Skilled craftsmen can carve jewelry. For example, it could be a caravan of camels or the profile of a woman. One of the popular themes is intertwined hearts. It takes more than one year to master this hobby. First of all, a person must become a sculptor and jeweler, and only then will he be able to create works of art from fragile lead.

Photographic art

What are your hobbies? Today, one of the most popular leisure activities of people is photography. Of course, amateur photography on a phone cannot be considered art. But creating creative works using professional equipment can become not only a hobby, but also a job. Wedding photographers start by making photography their hobby. They train their eyes, learn to use equipment, set the light correctly and choose a good angle. After years of practice, they get wonderful shots that help them earn money through their favorite activity.

Writing fanfiction

One type of hobby is literary creativity. But it is not necessary to create your own universe and invent heroes. If you have a favorite book but don't like the ending, or want to make a subplot the main story, you can do this. Write fanfic. What it is? This is a work of fiction based on an existing story. But you don’t copy it, but complement it or redo it a little. Sometimes such creative works can become more popular than the work of which they are a parody. Just remember Fifty Shades of Gray. This book, according to one version, was written as fan fiction for Twilight.

Cosplay

Do you love dress up parties? Then the fashionable hobby called cosplay is simply created for you. peculiar masquerades in which adults become heroes of their favorite comics, historical eras or TV series. There are a lot of cosplays, and they are all of different genres. You can choose the one you like. You need to prepare for such events in advance. All participants sew their own costumes or order them from a studio. It is in this preparation that costplayers find their main pleasure. The process of creating an image is more important for many than performing in a suit during the evening.

Breeding butterflies

A century ago, people raised pigeons. This was a hobby not only for aristocrats, but also for ordinary townspeople. Even today you can find people who are not indifferent to these birds. But there are very few of them. But breeding butterflies can become an unusual hobby and hobby. Some are fascinated by the process of a beautiful creature emerging from a cocoon, while others simply enjoy looking at the colorful beauty. And also many people turn this hobby into a profitable business.

Today it is fashionable to order butterflies for a wedding, Valentine's Day or birthday. Guys confess their love to girls, using winged creatures to achieve greater effect. You can breed butterflies for yourself, or you can sell them. In any case, this unusual hobby will bring unprecedented pleasure.

Edible creativity

What is the most fashionable hobby today? Of course it's baking. Cooking professionally is a challenging task. Even an inept housewife can bake cupcakes and buns at home. But not everyone can create small masterpieces from culinary products. Therefore, people who have creative thinking and can knead dough have firmly occupied the baking niche. In their free time, girls can create small cakes or complex compositions that are decorated with fondant. Housewives bake pancakes or make Viennese waffles.

If you don't know what to do in your spare time, give preference to cooking. Relatives and friends will definitely appreciate your new hobby. And also, with the proper skill, you can set up mass production. For example, bake cookies for the holidays and sell them to colleagues. Or perhaps you will enjoy assembling gingerbread houses and you can make money by creating them.

Construction

An unusual hobby for men is collecting miniature models. Many boys are interested in building with Lego as children. But when boys grow up, they become less interested in combining plastic parts. The soul requires something more. But not everyone becomes architects and engineers. Some go into law or medicine. But they spend their leisure time building miniature cities. These can be both collective images of our homeland and realistic city projects. Moreover, some reach such a level of mastery when they launch miniature cars around the city, turn on the lights in the windows and start trains.

Houses of cards

An interesting and unusual hobby is construction. But not in the standard sense of the word. Everyone has tried such masterpieces. But few people achieve good success in this type of activity. Some limit themselves to buildings of three floors, while others erect “large-scale structures.” Moreover, many are fascinated not so much by the process of creating such a structure as by the process of its destruction. But such destroyers prefer building with dominoes. This is also a kind of hobby, which today is considered almost art. Why? The thing is, once the dominoes fall, they create interesting images.