Daily Post #2744 • June 14 2025 • Craft

Slow down for better

Slow down.

Like running your hand over where you’re about to draw on a canvas, pen in hand, before actually making the stroke.

Trace-trace-trace the movement, then make the stroke… in one go.

That stroke will look so much better than merely attacking your canvas with lots of little strokes, leading to an amateurish, unconfident mess.

The negative space — the lines of nothingness — are what make the actual work shine so bright.

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