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Written by Koos Looijesteijn on 2025-01-08 at 14:20

Cheat

At school, I was taught that using correction fluid in drawings looks bad. So I believed professional artists flawlessly ink complete comic pages. Then I found out that they're called comic strips because they're made one strip at a time. And that the originals are often created from multiple drawings cut and pasted together. And before everything was done digitally: filled with lots of correction fluid. 1/2

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Written by Koos Looijesteijn on 2025-01-08 at 14:20

2/2

Avoiding tricks is a good way to learn, but it doesn't mean you should never apply them. Until you can apply your skills effortlessly, you can at least make it look so.

So: practice without correction fluid and pencil sketches, rulers, compass and whatnot. But then when you produce something for real, use all the tricks to get there.

[#]creativity #creative #skill

https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/get-good-at-anything-creative

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