The phrase "a friend drew" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an action performed by a friend, specifically in the context of drawing something.
Example: "A friend drew a beautiful landscape that captured the essence of the mountains."
Alternatives: "a friend sketched" or "a friend illustrated".
Instead, write, confide in a friend, draw, take a walk, etc. Don't get lost in self-pity.
As a writer and thus a fellow narcissist, I can only say: "Why didn't I think of that?" The book gets its title from an evening gone even more wrong than most, when Carr remembers being in such a rage that a close friend drew a gun on him; after reporting the incident out, he realizes to his mortification that it was he, more crazed than he knew, who drew the gun on his friend.
She was imprisoned for 16 months, mostly in solitary confinement, an experience that Arthur Koestler, a childhood friend, drew upon in writing his celebrated 1941 novel, "Darkness at Noon".
A family friend drew up the plans based on the appliances Mr. Bond had in storage.
But Dom DiMaggio, a teammate and close friend, drew cheers in a prepared talk as he hoped "that the family will honor his final wishes as to his final resting place, and that he may rest in peace".
My friend drew a picture, and he had a really nice twist on it.
After the final out of the 2004 World Series, after a history-making bloody-sock miracle comeback over the Yankees, after an eighth straight victory had made the Red Sox baseball's champions for the first time in the live-ball era, I sat in my apartment with my old friend Drew, a Sox fan from Massachusetts itself, and clinked a glass of whiskey.
Jamal Sarhan, a 34-year-old friend, drew on the 1982 invasion, one of the most devastating chapters of Lebanon's 1975-90 civil war.
