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Is it okay to draw slowly?

8:09 PM, Tuesday June 3rd 2025

So I've been practicing my lines with warm-ups and focusing on precision first, so I'm doing overlapping lines. I used to draw the lines fast enough so I didn't have to think about precision, but now when I do that, my ink runs out quickly. On the other hand, if I draw slowly, my ink doesn't run out quickly, but that makes it harder to get the line to come out wavy. Fortunately, by looking at the end point and making my strokes slow, I realize that most of the time they do come out smooth, but I don't know if it will benefit me or anything for my warm-ups.... I feel like it's about finding the balance between the two, but I still feel unsure. What do you think?

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5:52 PM, Wednesday June 4th 2025

Accuracy is practiced, while confidence is a matter of choice - to choose to set aside accuracy in the moment and commit to the stroke one has prepared, focusing only on executing it without course-correction or hesitation so as to produce a smooth mark (that may or may not fall where you want it to). Drawing faster does help make it impossible to course-correct or hesitate, but as we familiarize ourselves with what it means to draw confidently, the speed one must maintain to keep up that confidence decreases, making it possible for us to do so at slower paces.

That said, the way you've written your post creates the impression that confidence and accuracy are equal priorities. As stressed in Lesson 1, they very much are not. We want students to focus first and foremost on getting used to executing their marks with confidence, and to making the decision to put confidence above accuracy, and so at no point should you be consciously and intentionally lowering your speed below what you are able to execute confidently right now. If it wobbles, if you hesitate, speed back up.

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11:11 AM, Tuesday June 17th 2025

I'm not entirely sure. But I get the issue with having your ink run dry quickly especially since pens can be pricey here. I personally got 0.5 pens that are really cheap, not the best quality, but it does the trick

6:03 PM, Sunday July 6th 2025

Thats actually nice :,) Mines were not as good while doing a line so I bought other ones, they are better at least. Thanks for the comment

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