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Tried drawing a cat at 2am with a broken pen nib, ended up with something that looks more like a potato with legs
I was bored after my shift and found an old pen that was leaking ink everywhere. The nib was bent so the line kept splitting in two, and I thought it would be a disaster. But the double lines actually gave it this weird sketchy energy that looks kinda cool, like a messy comic panel. Now I'm hunting through the junk drawer for more busted pens to see what else happens. Anybody else find that broken tools can accidentally make better art sometimes?
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stellat8712d ago
Tbh my buddy was messing around with a dried-out sharpie once and got this smudgy effect that made her doodles look like old newspaper sketches. She was so annoyed at first but then framed one and put it on her wall. Broken stuff can totally force you to work different, like you can't rely on the usual tricks so you find new ones. Now she literally keeps a cup of dead pens on her desk for when she wants that specific look.
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jason56211d ago
I mean, is it really that deep though? It's a dead sharpie, not some artistic revelation. I feel like people overthink this stuff sometimes, it's a pen that ran out of ink.
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