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  • Rakugaki = easy + drawing - Fun.

  • Get rid of the psychological hurdle of “there is no desire to paint.”

  • First, draw swirls all over the paper.

    • You don’t do the “draw big” thing you did when you were a kid as an adult.
  • draw a line

    • Fold A4 four times and straighten lengthwise and widthwise
    • Messy person try to write carefully
  • make a circle (e.g. draw, paint, describe, walk, drive, etc.)

    • It’s hard to draw a nice circle.
    • Body Control
  • coating (esp. lacquering) - hatching

  • Line Emotions

    • Fast, slow, smooth, rough
  • facial expression

    • iueo (scale)
    • Black eyes, white eyes, smiling, tsumuri, and squeezing
    • Straight, smiling, up, down
    • You can draw it a hundred different ways just by multiplying these.
  • aspect of one’s face

  • Body How to draw a stick figure.


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