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Just realized my fabric sketches were way too stiff until I started using a cheap kids' marker.

I was struggling for months to get flowy, dynamic lines in my design sketches, and my professor in Austin said they looked 'tense'. On a whim, I grabbed my niece's Crayola washable marker and the loose, imperfect line it made was PERFECT. Does anyone have a favorite unexpected tool that changed their sketching process?

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3 Comments

luna_craig583mo ago

Oh totally! I had the same thing happen with a cheap ballpoint pen from a hotel. It just glides and skips in this perfect way my fancy pens never do, and my gesture drawings got so much looser. It's funny how the "wrong" tool can fix everything, right?

robert_roberts1mo ago

@luna_craig58 "wrong" tool is usually the right one for me too.

the_sam3mo ago

You kept a hotel pen?