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I saw a huge change in my designs after I started sketching with a basic ballpoint pen instead of fancy markers. What gives?

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rileyp49
rileyp491mo ago
So you're forced to focus on line weight and shape instead of color filling everything in, right? Like with a marker you might just block in a shadow, but a pen makes you actually think about the cross-hatching. It strips away the fancy stuff and gets back to the basic structure.
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xena1
xena11mo ago
Exactly, @rileyp49, you learn to build form with just lines, which helps everything else later.
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the_karen
the_karen20d ago
Isn't that just because pens force you to commit to every mark you make?
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