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5:35 PM, Monday December 28th 2020

Everything Drawabox teaches is at its core an exercise, and each exercise addresses an underlying concept or skill, developing it in the student. Applying the ghosting method, for example, teaches students to think and plan before they make a mark. Drawing from the shoulder teaches us to use our whole arm, for the situations where it is ultimately necessary to make the kind of mark we're wish to produce. Construction teaches us to think in 3D space, considering how the marks and forms we draw exist in three dimensions, rather than just as lines on a flat page.

How you draw on your own, and how any artist ultimately draws can only be considered correct or incorrect against the kinds of marks they're intending to draw. We refer to linework as chicken-scratch not just because it is made up of a lot of shorter segments, but because it is something a beginner will do precisely because they feel that they are incapable of drawing with a single smooth continuous stroke. If an artist is capable of doing it both ways, and chooses one, then there's nothing incorrect about it.

Drawabox ultimately forces you to learn how to do all the hard stuff, so you're able to draw with the freedom of choosing, rather than the restrictions of inability.

11:27 PM, Monday December 28th 2020

Yeah I tought there were only one ways to do x things.

This philosophy isn't really bad, tackle harder things in order to do the easier ones.

I was like thinking, that I wasn't really understanding how to draw lines and maybe in my mind I was watching other people draw like a noob like me is drawing.

Glad to know I'm not seeing other things in the drawing process.

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These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.

Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).

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