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@BobbiArbore thanks! (and never quit!)

@cookie_mumbles Hey, yes: in short, it trains the way i imagine things precisely before drawing them. It's frustrating, challenging and quickly reveals if i know a volume or (as often) NOT . If i can imagine it fully and hold it in memory while tracing it.

My next step is to learn more body parts and how to magnet my volumes to an imaginary perspective grid (cause i'm still bad at it and often fallback to isometry).

Eg: photo under, training onhands.
#ballpen #MastoArt #sketch #sketchbook

@davidrevoy That's awesome, thank you for sharing!

Do you recommend this training for beginner/intermediate artists as well? Or should one be really familiar with how the volumes are supposed to work in 3d space?

@cookie_mumbles Its always hard to know what to recommend. In the past, I tried this method many times but it was always too frustrating , especially as soon as I screwed a face or a body part. I started to hate the page of this training on my sketchbook. Now, somehow I have more flexibility into improvisation, so even when I go wrong, I can somehow justify the random line into something else and still keep going. It helps. I still feel bad about it, but I at least not hate the pages anymore.

@davidrevoy Thank you! I will give it a try (and probably end up with hated pages in my sketchbook haha)

@jugularmalloy thanks! This one is the Bic Orange Original Fine. I like it a lot too. I emptied it today, it was new on Monday

@davidrevoy Amazing! You must have hulk wrists now.

@jugularmalloy

@davidrevoy Also I love seeing how much you achieve with ballpen.

It’s like late saving grace for all the people who skribbled with the ballpen in school but gave up because they thought "this can never look professional".

Like realizing “maybe this wasn’t doomed after all, and I could have kept going — if I see someone else do this, I’ll be sure to let them know that continuing their art and craft can produce great results”.

@ArneBab Thanks. I like how simple, available, cheap (and in a way 'humble') ballpen are. They have a lot of interesting effects (smudging with finger, quickly after crosshatching) and possibility of thin and thick on the line. It's also very reliable and easy to transport. Maybe an idea for a future video to share the tips i found with it.

@davidrevoy yes, a future video like "how to create awesome art (and spiced carrots) with a ballpen" would be awesome!

That’s actually something that could be useful to translate into many languages and maybe even dub a translated version (if I manage to find time, that’s something I’d love to do), because it could help pupils worldwide — especially the ones who cannot afford 20€ for a small set of high quality ink pens.

@sylvia thanks!

You attached a screenshot from an article about a family reaction to Ai voice impersonation of a dead actor, but i struggle to connect the dot about how it is related to my ballpen sketches. Was it just offtopic , like a , 'hey look at that'. In this case, why not writing it and sending also the source link? Thanks!