Post by @theartcoach

Tap the link in my bio to start the drawing drills course. Style should be intentional. And by intentional, I don’t mean every line needs to be perfect or carefully planned. Your work can be loose, chaotic, scratchy, distorted, exaggerated, or downright weird. The question is: did you choose it? When you first imagined the piece in your head, did you have an idea of what you wanted it to feel like? And when you finished, did you get reasonably close to communicating that idea? That gap between what you imagined and what you were actually able to put on the page matters. Because sometimes we call something our “style” when it’s really just the only way we currently know how to draw. Chicken scratching is a perfect example. It’s incredibly common when you’re learning because you’re still developing hand-eye coordination. You’re searching for the edge instead of confidently placing it. There’s nothing wrong with being at that stage. But I think there’s a huge difference between choosing to make a scratchy line and making one because you don’t yet have the control to make anything else. The more control you develop, the more choices you have.