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  • Sketching is the main way that artists sort of build their drawing muscles and it's a

  • good idea to just sketch constantly and to just sketch everything around you. You don't

  • need to wait until you're sitting in a figure drawing class with a model sitting there holding

  • up a bowl of fruit to be able to warm those drawing muscles. Basically, anywhere you are,

  • you can always have a sketch book and if you have a few minutes, you're sitting on a train

  • or a bus or something like that. Every artist I know has a sketch book full of subway drawings,

  • or whatever. Hopefully, without them getting mad at you, you could just sit their and sort

  • of capture a quick impression of how they're sitting. Maybe, the details of what they're

  • wearing.

  • Really, there's no how-to about it because what you're really doing is trying to perceive

  • things and translate your own perceptions into drawings. The only how-to about it is

  • to just do it as much as you possibly can. You need to be an extremely confident draftsman.

  • You need to have the ability to draw just about anything without much effort and without

  • having to do a lot of work. And the only way that you build that ability is by just drawing

  • all the time. So, this isn't about doing a final finished drawing. This is just about

  • getting an idea down as quickly as you can. Just about developing the muscles that transmit

  • an idea from your eyes to your brain and to your pencil and just getting it down fast,

  • loose, and spontaneously and moving on to the next thing.

Sketching is the main way that artists sort of build their drawing muscles and it's a

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