Drawing Prompt: In Memoriam

4:28 AM, Friday March 31st 2023

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This submission was done for the In Memoriam drawing prompt. Check out more submissions here!

In the days of old, so the stories say, there was a mighty hero who single-handedly felled an army 250 strong, bringing peace to the land of Drawabox.

But a peace so sublime could not last, for the evil Elbatrofmocnu (the evil twin brother of Uncomfortable) then hired 25 textures to challenge the hero.

Records say our hero perished in that battle, yet some still claim he merely went into hiding, and is honing his skills for the day that he will rise up to the challenge... and reclaim his status of Hero.

Maybe I got a got a little carried away lol.

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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).

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