(How) Do You Fix Mistakes?

Welcome to Draw Tip Tuesday!

I got a question from Sue, which I'd like to address today.
"How do you fix mistakes when drawing with a pen?"

A lot of people use pencil first, erase their mistakes, draw with the pencil again, and once they're happy with the result, they'll trace the "correct" lines with pen.
I discourage using erasers, because you're focusing on your mistakes again and again, instead of allowing yourself to get pulled into the lovely flow of drawing.
An even more important issue: It takes all spontaneity out of the process and out of the drawing.

And.... "Mistakes"? What are they anyway when you're drawing?
We make up these rules for ourselves that when drawing from observation, we have to create a perfect representation of what we see. While, if you let go of that idea and you start enjoying where you are and that you are giving yourself time to draw, you could be making something way more interesting: your interpretation of the place, the subject, the view, your experience.

I'll show you a few drawings today, drawings that "went wrong" in the first place, but they became the most interesting of all. I think in THOSE drawings, my "handwriting" is most recognizable too. which is my 'style".


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