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Tools and materials
• Drawing pens or pencils
as you choose
• Paper of any sort
or illustration board
• Tracing paper
• Source images
Carmen can draw and my Sweet Heart John Tollett
can draw, but I can’t. If you’re a pretty good
illustrator, skip this chapter. But if you’re not
and you’d like to learn a few techniques for
those times when you really want to do it
yourself, read on.
Each of these ideas works on the same
principle—tricking your left brain. Your left
brain is the judgmental part that says your
drawing is stupid and ugly. If we trick the left
brain into thinking we’re not really drawing,
it doesn’t know it’s supposed to be critical, ...