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6:34 PM, Friday January 13th 2023

I think the next best step is to really pay attention to the construction for when you do your animal drawings, and do your best to work additively and just learn by doing. If you want something to work on that is more warm up-able though, you could practice doing the sausage exercise, but do long, thin sausages (like the insects leg) 1-3 times to help you make those less wobbly and inconsistent. The main thing will be to follow all the tutorials and do your best in lesson 5 though.

5:54 PM, Monday January 16th 2023

Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts!

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A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.

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