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FROM THE DRAWING BOARD

Hi Brett,
I can never “see” the right shapes drawing freehand? I can get it close but then always come up against a point when nothing I change or add seems to make the drawing any better, it’s so maddening I can see it’s wrong but just can’t make it any better, Hoping you can help, Kym.

Hi Kym,
Well you’ve hit the crux of the biscuit between good and bad and what drives everyone mad, there’s a few things I can tell you to help improve this essential element of drawing. The first is that everyone is paddling the same boat, no matter who is doing it or what it is they are drawing, no-one can just perfectly draw the linework stages of a complex composition freehand without a struggle, it’s not humanly possible, which I guess

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