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>#4 is wrong, many pros tell you quantity over quality (most of the time, there is a time and place to do spend a lot of time on a piece) bc its more opportunities to practice

pros do not say that, they don't practice that. you look at dave rapoza or james gurney they don't do bad studies, their studies are high tier realism, pushed as hard as they can, like daves apple studies back in the day. meanwhile checked on my friend from 4 years ago, endless rough poorly done studies, like he didn't give a fuck about making something good, he was just grinding through each piece trying to get to the next. if you think about it there's no reason to move on from a study to the next if there's mistakes in your current work that could be fixed.

> pens are actually good because they force you to be more aware of your marksmanship meaning down the line you make less mistakes

again it has it's flaws, based off personal experience of 6yrs pen drawing mostly. that being it's hard for me to actually push a design with only pen, if I erased or used digital I could play around with many different ideas, be creative, 100 different color schemes, with pen I'm stuck with what I've got. artists make better designs when there's room to play around, there's limited freedom with pen drawings.

it's probably useful to some degree as an exercise or for fun, but unnecessary, artists like ruan jia turn rough messy unledgible sketches into masterpieces, & he can't draw in pen for shit.

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