Lets say, hypothetically, that you were to draw on a piece of printer paper and the ink is quite visible on the back side (bit faint but strong at the points). Would I be able to use both sides of the paper to draw or should I get a different one? I'd choose the latter, but I wanted to post this just to check.
I definitely would not for your homework, as drawing on a page that is already messy in some way can subconsciously predispose us to doing less than our best (in terms of taking our time, focusing, etc). Generally students only work on one side of a given page, at least in terms of what they submit to us for feedback.
For the exercises that I will show for homework, I do the same thing. For warmups and other things that I do not need to take a picture of, I just use the other side. For drawing purposes I do not find the bleeding impactful enough to mess up my drawing on the other side.
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.
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