#control over my hands. i can't get my handwriting to be 'evenly weighted' let ALONE a fucking circle. circles are hard my good guy! | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

leatherbookmark · 11 months ago

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fascinated and enamoured by the discovery that art generally looks better if it's produced by confident, longer strokes rather than careful ones that make sure not to over(- or under)do anything. who knew

#shrimp thoughts #note: this is a personal post written from the perspective of someone who got briefly possessed by a spirit of an artist with Skillz #and ended up with a portrait that looks (!) like the person (!!) it's supposed to--well! portray! (!!!)#it was most definitely a fluke but i'm gazing at it adoringly a lot #a while ago yt recced me a short in which someone was like. psychoanalyzing sketch guidelines (starting to draw a head from a circle etc)#and said sth along the lines of ohhh a good confident and skilled artist draws a circle in one smooth motion while taking a while to get a #circle by repeatedly sketching it out betrays feelings of anxiety and lack of confidence--baby no it betrays the fact that i have shit #control over my hands. i can't get my handwriting to be 'evenly weighted' let ALONE a fucking circle. circles are hard my good guy!

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