At Least For Me

And ink and watercolor have a tendency to really show that really hard, right? So it's a practice of commitment. Ink is very committing, you know what I mean? Yes, yes, definitely. The pencil stuff, I do the pencil stuff on its own.

But what I do with ink, I don't do anything at the bottom. I just go straight with it. And it's fun to take that risk and take that chance and see what happens.

Oh, it is, isn't it? It's liberating almost. It's like, okay, let's go. A blank piece of paper, you're like, ah-ha-ha.

I did it in art school. I basically just started working with ink right away and didn't do any underdrawing or anything. I didn't do any pre-sketches or anything.

And my teacher just looked at me like, you know that sheet of paper is $100. I'm like, I know, I paid for it. I know what it cost.

You're not going to figure out what you're going to do with it before you do it? I'm like, no. That's just a typical classroom conversation. It's a mindset, isn't it, Shikrami? Yes.

But we used to have that with the kids all the time. And then they would, of course, come back and put our famous sentence, no, you don't get another paper. You've got to work with the oops.

Because we'll make one tiny mistake. I need another paper. No.

You need to work it out. Problem solve it. Incorporate.

But that's the lesson about ink, right? Yeah, you've got to incorporate it. You live with the mistakes rather than trying to erase it. And as soon as you try to remove a mistake or whatever, like even if you switch paper, it's always going to be different.

It's never going to be exactly the way you had already done it. So the point of no return is as soon as you start to try to do it again. And it will never, you know, like, at least for me, it's like, yeah.