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Just teaching folks the fundamentals of drawing, one box at a time.

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@grovymango Just keep your hotpot off the black rocks. The ocean is hungry and not inclined to share.

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Been getting into the festive spirit by listening to the audiobook for Krampus: The Yule Lord (for the second time, actually) - which is written by one of my favourite *illustrators*, @GeraldBrom.

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@shl @jasonfried Hah! Good to see you're still drawing after all these years!

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@TeamYouTube @MsDiamondPearl I used to be extremely active in responding to my students' comments on my videos, entirely because notifications were sent to my email where I already kept track of things.

Now I have yet another place to forget to check. Thanks for making things worse for your creators.

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@mechanical_monk @joodalooped @mishapathy The thought has honestly crossed my mind lol

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@mechanical_monk @joodalooped @mishapathy You don't want to come out the other side with instincts and underlying skills that have been honed to a fine point, but no capacity to trust yourself to use them subconsciously.

Play will result in awful drawings, but it'll teach you to trust in your skills as they are now. 2/2

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@mechanical_monk @joodalooped @mishapathy Pssst. The 50% rule is extremely important, and should not be skipped. Where studying is done by being hyper intentional with our choices and avoiding relying on the instincts we seek to train, play is critical for strengthening that trust in the instincts we have right now. 1/

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Check out this work from The Division 2: Battle for Brooklyn, done by our very own Claudiu Pana! https://t.co/UeqrO24Dod

He finished Drawabox in 2020, has been working for Ubisoft for the last 3 years, and remains an active fixture in our community. I am incredibly proud of him.

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@xX_DVMBPVPPY_Xx @deadpool3763492 @bbnomula Give Francis Tsai a look too. ALS took everything, but he kept drawing and creating til the end.

Also tremors vary - I have a number of students with tremors and they have varying degrees of how much they can work through them, but each achieves more than they expected.

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@MosesePule @ALMZ11_ and the fact that he never shyed away from them. This will develop your son's confidence and ready him to face any difficulty knowing he can overcome it. 4/4

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@MosesePule @ALMZ11_ That's what my students tend to struggle with most, because they're already worried about correct vs incorrect.

For now, just keep doing what you're doing, although instead of focusing your praise on the results (as most do), celebrate the effort put in, the challenges faced 3/

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@BartewaDraws @radio_runner A couple quick things to keep in mind:

- draw through the ellipses you freehand throughout this course
- don't shade in the overlaps
- keep applying the ghosting method to all of your freehanded lines but if you make a mistake, don't correct it

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Don't take promises for granted. Be careful, be aware, and if you can - partner with artists to create your projects so that you're not left worrying which load-bearing licenses of yours are made of iron, and which are made of paper. 7/7

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There are a lot of services out there that provide assets - graphics, sound effects, background music, etc. - royalty free based on a subscription service for use in commercial projects. Or at least, that's what they promise, but whether that's true is a different story. 1/

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But if at the end of the day they can hide behind their ToS to shield themselves from the responsibility of honouring their promises, then as Starla asks in her video: What the heck are you paying for? 6/