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7:05 AM, Wednesday January 19th 2022

You absolutely can adjust your point, if you find it to be unsatisfactory - in fact, your encouraged to.

That's... definitely not the way you're meant to be going the organic perspective exercise. Each line is drawn once, and only once (and, obviously, it's drawn using the ghosting method). This has us transition nicely into the automatic reinforcing question. Essentially, what that means is that you'll draw a line, and then immediately go over it a second time, usually as a means of 'correcting' it, as a knee-jerk reaction. That's not something we like to see. One, because you're meant to be thinking about your line before you draw it, thus putting yourself in the best position of executing it well. Two, because it helps to become comfortable with one's own mistakes. You'll be seeing a lot of them, anyway. Hence: draw each line once!

2:55 AM, Sunday February 13th 2022

Thanks for the explanation. It is what I figured it meant, but I wanted to be sure I was not mistaken.

"That's... definitely not the way you're meant to be going the organic perspective exercise. "

Good thing we were able to catch that then.

Now I am doing the first 250 crucible, some of the mistakes have crept in at times, but some other aspects (good ones) have started becoming reinforced. The biggest test has not truly been my dots, lines, accuracy, straightness, ect at this point, even if they need much work: perseverance and patience are my true bane here...but I am almost done, regardless of the results. I hope to have it in before the end of this month.

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Here we're getting into the subjective - Gerald Brom is one of my favourite artists (and a pretty fantastic novelist!). That said, if I recommended art books just for the beautiful images contained therein, my list of recommendations would be miles long.

The reason this book is close to my heart is because of its introduction, where Brom goes explains in detail just how he went from being an army brat to one of the most highly respected dark fantasy artists in the world today. I believe that one's work is flavoured by their life's experiences, and discovering the roots from which other artists hail can help give one perspective on their own beginnings, and perhaps their eventual destination as well.

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