From Core77's Hack2School: The Ultimate Design Student Guide.
The perfect drawing tool can be anything: charcoal or graphite, rolling ball or ball-point, razor point or wide nib, fountain pen, cartridge pen--even, if all else fails, a number two pencil. Whatever it is should fit comfortably in your hand, making you want to use it constantly. It should move smoothly on the surface of the pages of your sketchbook, like it has a mind of its own, a free and independent destiny.
For anyone studying the design disciplines, drawing is as essential as breathing. (It may, at times, be more essential.) Drawing is a language with which one achieves fluency only through practice: it benefits from a kind of persistent engagement, an ongoing stride. There's a kind of aerobic state you reach in drawing when you do it for hours on end, when the rhythm of the line feels like an extension of your hand.
Best of all, you learn by doing. Forget everything you ever learned about the concept preceding the form. Now, start to draw, and watch closely: this is where form begets form, the iterative, generative process unfolding and taking you along for the ride. Jettison all the preconceived notions you have, and watch closely. Your ideas take shape, disappearing and resurfacing, shifting and reconstituting themselves while you work.
Fuck the computer. Start with a really good pen, and keep drawing until you die.
See more tips, tricks, and lifehacks for design students at core77.com/hack2school
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