More than anything, I learned that failure isn't a bad thing. Doing so made me realize that there was a lot more value in doing something the wrong way than not doing it at all, and having to face all those mistakes staring back at me made them a lot less terrifying. Ultimately what helped me was to force myself to fill two pages every night in pen. Paralysis is a serious problem among students - it's something that plagued me a lot when I was younger and led to many nights staring at blank pages and blank screens. Working in ink gives you two options - you can simply not draw, or you can draw and face whether or not your marks came out as you intended them to. People sometimes feel sensitive about the word 'failure', but that's really what we're talking about here. It helps build confidence by encouraging you push forward boldly and make mistakes.Ballpoint pens will still allow for lighter, messier sketching, which is why we use fineliners, which create a rich, bold mark no matter how hard you press. So while people tend to go in with that urge to be messy, they quickly pick up on just how bad it looks when you're doing it with a pen that makes every mark scream its presence.
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You're not here to learn how to sketch, you're here to learn how to be mindful of your actions, to control your arm and to make the marks you intend to. It's not wrong to do that, but it is inherently contrary to the core of what Drawabox seeks to teach you. Draw draw draw, don't think, just get it down on the page, something will emerge. When we sketch as kids, we tend to really go at the paper. People tend to be wasteful, and ink won't let you hide that fact.These are the major reasons I push people to go through the exercises with ink: