What's Your Favourite Tip Most Drawing?

What's your favourite tip near drawing that y'all ever share?  

Three of my tips near drawing

1. Carry a sketchbook alongside y'all all the fourth dimension together with y'all volition work a lot to a greater extent than drawing.  There are lots of occasions when y'all tin line out a sketchbook for a quick sketch - summation it records your life equally lived! (The sketch below was done spell waiting to take in the Consultant at the Dental Hospital terminal week!)
2. When drawing inwards life degree function out where the middle of the torso is. That means I stand upwards one-half a run a hazard of filling the page simply non having to crop the caput or the feet!
3. Use a battery eraser to depict equally good equally to erase. Drawing involves changing the surface together with that tin hateful removing media equally good equally laying it down.

The Queue at Reception at the Dental Hospital vii Jan 2014
pen together with ink inwards Moleskine Sketchbook

Why I'm bespeak for your tips near drawing

My argue for bespeak near your favourite tips near drawing is that I've got my caput downwards correct straightaway - writing the majority near drawing together with sketching that I've been commissioned to do. (see previous posts I've been asked to write a book.... together with I'm writing the majority this week)

The majority has v dissimilar sections thus I accept v dissimilar files on the become equally I movement to run into the criteria for the pose out of topics, pose out of words, pose out of double page spreads together with pose out of images. Flex whatsoever 1 of 4 to work a problem! ;)

At the moment, I'm working my means through trying to consummate the text for double page spread later double page spread.  I'm non a sequential author - I tend to function pretty much equally I draw. I start alongside sketching inwards the overall construction (the tabular array of contents) - together with thus start to pad that out (the flatplan) together with thus start to add together inwards content (sample double page spreads) together with straightaway I'm into the corporation workload of genuinely producing text together with images for lxxx double page spreads!  Plus editing downwards the starting fourth dimension overstep on the content.

The fact of the affair is I've got likewise many tips at the moment(!) together with I demand to start editing downwards - thus I desire to know which are your favourites tips near drawing  to brand certain these are the ones which don't teach edited out!

The favourite ones are:

• the ones y'all ever remember, 
• the ones that made a large departure to how y'all depict together with sketch
• the ones y'all ever part together with overstep on to others

So - what's your favourite tip near drawing that y'all volition ever value together with similar to share?

To travel out a comment click the link to the correct of my cite together with appointment below.

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