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<\/p>\nMore practice work.<\/p>\n
I saw a short video about why a person had switched to only sketching in ink. The idea is that not erasing forces you to redraw something if you didn’t like it, and that means extra practice.<\/p>\n
I think that’s a great idea!<\/p>\n
Yes\/and…I really love drawing with pencil and I love the textures that produces.<\/p>\n
Upshot? Draw more. Practice more.<\/p>\n
Now that my mother-in-law has moved in, the project of turning my\/our office\/never-quite-became-the-library\/studio-ish\/projects-and-art storage room into her bedroom is pretty much done. There’s a few small things to finish up like outlet covers. That suggest some possibility of practice time.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, my office got moved to the top floor and it is, shall we say, a shambles. It is a collection of bags and boxes and disassembled furniture that covers most of the floor. So\u2026 there’s a lot of work up there. I am actually quite intimidated and not very clear where I should begin so that I can also begin again working from home. And I still have to do a mess of bookkeeping for taxes, and all that. Yikes.<\/p>\n
But in the meantime, darn it, I’m at least keeping up with my Sketchbook obligations on Patreon!<\/p>\n
Love you guys and thank you very much.<\/p>\n
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