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dayneb12

Dimensional Dominator

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dayneb12's Sketchbook

  • Sharing the Knowledge
  • Dimensional Dominator
  • The Relentless
  • Basics Brawler
  • Basics Brawler
  • Lesson 3: Applying Construction to Plants

  • Can the 50% rule be done digitally?

  • Lesson 2: Best Method of Drawing Contour Curves

  • Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

  • 250 Box Challenge

  • Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

  • Can I re-submit my homework for official critique?

  • Listening to Music During Exercises: Good or Bad Idea?

  • Should I practice lines before 250 box challenge?

  • Adding rotation to boxes in organic perspective.

  • Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

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Printer Paper

Printer Paper

Where the rest of my recommendations tend to be for specific products, this one is a little more general. It's about printer paper.

As discussed in Lesson 0, printer paper (A4 or 8.5"x11") is what we recommend. It's well suited to the kind of tools we're using, and the nature of the work we're doing (in terms of size). But a lot of students still feel driven to sketchbooks, either by a desire to feel more like an artist, or to be able to compile their work as they go through the course.

Neither is a good enough reason to use something that is going to more expensive, more complex in terms of finding the right kind for the tools we're using, more stress-inducing (in terms of not wanting to "ruin" a sketchbook - we make a lot of mistakes throughout the work in this course), and more likely to keep you from developing the habits we try to instill in our students (like rotating the page to find a comfortable angle of approach).

Whether you grab the ream of printer paper linked here, a different brand, or pick one up from a store near you - do yourself a favour and don't make things even more difficult for you. And if you want to compile your work, you can always keep it in a folder, and even have it bound into a book when you're done.

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