It seems like the reasons for using 0.5 exclusively don't apply to the texture exercises where thinner marks would be useful. Am I missing something or can I use my 0.1 fineliners for this?
All exercises in this course should be completed with a 0.5mm fineliner unless otherwise stated. In the texture exercise you may find it useful to use a thicker pen or a brush pen to fill in shadow shapes, but those shapes should still first be outlined with your 0.5mm pen.
You'll find that if you first outline your intended shadow shapes, then fill them in, that you'll be able to achieve greater dynamism and nuance to those textural marks (rather than trying to execute them in a single stroke using a thinner pen). Furthermore, continuing to use a 0.5mm pen will continue to help train your pressure control, which in turn will make thinner marks easier to achieve. Remember that everything we do in this course is an exercise - we choose our tools based on how they can adjust the way we learn, not on the basis of what they allow us to achieve right now (in terms of the end result of a given exercise).
Okay thanks. I will work on my pen control.
As for the textures exercise,I went all the way to using a THICK brush pen for the thick bar.There are however no restrictions for the size of pen.The only think that should be kept in mind is that you are drawing the shadow shapes and not actual forms.If you are able to achieve that with a 0.1 pen,GO AHEAD.
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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