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Beginner. When practicing my fundamental lines/shapes, is practicing drawing from different directions, angles and orientations important or would this confuse the building of muscle memory? Building muscle memory is the objective. Ex. Practicing circles going clockwise, counter-clockwise. Practicing lines from lower-left to upper-right, bottom-to-top, top-to-bottom.
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Beginner. Redrew the images so much I got burnt out so I found different images of the same themes and styles to draw instead.
its tricky trying to get into sketch-mode frame of mind—I’m obsessing over detail too much. It’s tricky. Just gotta let go.
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I need to learn to relax an not take it so seriously 😠4mo
Brand new to drawing. I’m having trouble just letting go of my drawing inhibitions. Get nervous about drawing to next exercise and go back to fundamental shapes for a few days.
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just wanted to submit, but had to press the "request critique" button ...

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Me too. I think there’s only a critique choice. Nice looking critter
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1st attempt of cybergirl turned out not to horrible. Not sure why, probably because it’s a less organic figure—more straight lines.
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First off, shoutout to the editor(s). So funny sometimes.
I see I over thought this exercise. I went in thinking we couldn't box things in and make a plan. I thought the little construction marks I did make were cheating but I just made it way harder on myself xP. My second go at these will hopefully be way easier. I will however need to actually draw the shoe laces. I simplified mine wayyyy to much
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Thanks. Great post. I’m gonna tried that out. 🙂
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Yikes 😬 that was difficult for me. It was a big jump in difficulty for me from the only using straight lines lesson. I got the snail but I don’t have confidence in my line drawing so it came out scratchy. 😕 I started the boot but was getting too frustrated so had to stop for a while. I need more practice drawing curved lines so gonna practice that for a while.
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Beginner. Been watching youtube vids, pretty low quality content. 🤢 . Made the jump and bought Proko high quality content 🥳
Pre-Proko had been practicing basic shapes and shading for weeks. For this Proko lesson I found an image of a candle I wanted to try and draw.