Portrait Drawing Tip 23
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How to sketch in pen and ink
Sketching in pen and ink is one of the best ways to work on your fine motor skills. These skills control small and precise movements of fingers; they are "hard-wired" with the motor cortex of a human brain. This part of the brain is responsible for concentration, planning, decision making, problem solving, personality expression, certain aspects of speech and language. It is also responsible for executive function, which relates to abilities to differentiate among conflicting thoughts, determine good and bad, better and best, same and different, future consequences of current activities, working toward a defined goal, prediction of outcomes, expectation based on actions, and social "control". That is why fine motor skills are so needed not only for fine artists to make better pictures, but for any person. To learn how to develop fine motor skills, check this article: https://lifedrawing.academy/life-drawing-academy-news/fine-motor-skills
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