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You-I'm not sure what you mean when you say you draw with a ruler. Could you clarify?

-I basically draw with an ruler by rotating it 90 angle everytime while moving it XY location in order to get the XY coordination of the drawing correctly and my latest drawing do show this progress.

I've spent quite awhile trying to learn graphite realism. From my sophomore year to the end of my senior year (which is when I spent the bulk of my time drawing) I'd estimate I spent somewhere around 1,000 hours or so on graphite drawings.

-You learned it in just 41 days based from the calculation of 1000/24. Err, perhaps an little while?

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"When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores." - Alfie Kohn

Well, I always had an interest in art, and growing up I would draw the typical anime and cartoon stuff that most art kids draw.

-Interesting how you changed from anime art to realism art. People who usually draws anime and attempts to switch into another form of art will have an whole lot of difficultly shading in the forms of realism due to the lack of knowledge of shading, texturing, and lining that real-life based picture do have.

But during my sophomore year of high school, I came across Armin Mersmann who radically changed how I approached drawing and art.

-He's quite an charming dude who knows how to change people's thoughts about art.

I pretty much became obsessed with his artwork, and it was simply through observing his techniques and philosophies on drawing that I really began to improve.

-The progress of his drawing may actually show some new technique that beginner artist usually don't have and it can actually gives new idea on how to draw more efficiently and especially for an teenage guy who have an scientific mind.

I'm not sure what you mean when you say you draw with a ruler. Could you clarify?

I basically draw with an ruler by rotating it 90 angle everytime while moving it XY location in order to get the XY coordination of the drawing correctly and my latest drawing do show this progress.

I've spent quite awhile trying to learn graphite realism. From my sophomore year to the end of my senior year (which is when I spent the bulk of my time drawing) I'd estimate I spent somewhere around 1,000 hours or so on graphite drawings.

You learned it in just 41 days based from the calculation of 1000/24. Err, perhaps an little while?

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"When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores." - Alfie Kohn