the very zeroth exercise is to dig through your tup of decade-old pens for the one fineliner you own, and rejoice upon finding out it somehow hadn’t gone dry.
the very first exercise is to learn how to draw with your whole arm via your shoulder, rather than your wrist, for smooth albeit inaccurate strokes.
next one is about ghosting, where you hover your pen to plan out a stroke between two points. i decided i would put all my random points down in advance.
i can feel the changes to my hand-eye coordination in real time, especially as i experiment with the number of ghost strokes, stroke speed, stroke angle, stroke length, and some other ways of varying them.
enjoying encouraging myself to learn new stroke angles via controlled indulgence of my laziness for rotating the page, or even rotating the page while wiggling my ghost strokes as a fun movement exercise.
ghosted planes exercise, with experiments in stroke order, number of ghost strokes, stroke angle, and more
