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11:59 PM, Wednesday August 11th 2021
edited at 12:00 AM, Aug 12th 2021

I'm close to 18 months in and just completed lesson 5. So I'm taking it slow too. It can be quite dry at times so I tend to binge and purge. I'm not sure it gets easier but if you don't get prior lessons internalised it will be much harder than necessary.

I can testify to the benefits though, they bleed into any other drawing you do. I'm

I always recommend Aaron Blaise's courses as being very good value ( especially if you buy membership when it's on offer to get access to everything ). Depends on what your interest is. There's certainly no shortage of online options these days.

edited at 12:00 AM, Aug 12th 2021
8:52 AM, Thursday August 19th 2021

18 months ... That's amazing! I am convinced that you have learned a lot about drawing along the way, but also about yourself. Time management, frustration management, patience, constancy, self-motivation... and many more things that explicitly do not have to do with drawing skills but are implicitly invaluable in drawing and in everything else.

I didn't know Aaron Blaise, I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the suggestion and thanks for taking the time to reply.

Greetings,

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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.

In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.

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