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Bluebill

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The Indomitable (Winter 2023)

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    8:06 AM, Saturday December 30th 2023

    Thank you so much! I mainly used Greg Rutkowski's free brush pack on his Gumroad, just imported to Clip Studio

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    6:51 PM, Thursday May 19th 2022

    Thank you so much for your critique! Yeah I definitely need to work some on ghosting lines. I think my confidence has improved but I still tend to undershoot or go slightly off trajectory. I also want to improve on time efficiency though I know I shouldn’t rush too much that my work suffers. I took some pretty long breaks with this lesson but for the 250 box challenge I want to make some progress daily.

    Thanks again for the extensive feedback!

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