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>>6819919
My approach to direct-drawing here was basically just naive drawing. I imagined something (often repeatedly, as these are difficult to hold) and placed down marks where I felt right, easing up as a more complete image formed. Time varied wildly and often correlated with quality, so I cannot say.

Nothing noteworthy in 2022, just slow progress. At my high point, I maintained one finished linework within a day, albeit with better quality and complexity than previously.

6th breakthrough:
2023.2, Keys to Drawing. Retracing, going back to your roots is going to be a common theme from hereon out. Doing observative contour studies of figures and adopting shapes as a philosophy lit a spark in me, allowing me to draw even more fluidly. Here, I can create fairly complete, constructed sketches within an hour.

7th breakthrough:
2023.7, I took up the aforementioned direct-drawing again, but with a different approach emphasizing shapes. Imagining things as usual, I would try to break down images into shapes and draw them in parts like so. Depending on quality and complexity again, I would take between 30 min to 2 hours for a sketch. However, a glaring flaw was that I absolutely could not draw a nude figure this way, only heavily clothed ones as they were easier to bullshit symbols with.
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