Sketching Breakthrough!

When Renee sketches, her first instinct is to approach sketching like writing numbers and letters in which she knows from the start exactly what the letters and numbers need to look like.  So it makes sense to press hard on the paper to write legible letters and numbers.  But you rarely know exactly what a sketch should look like from the start, so it  makes more sense to sketch lightly and then darken in the lines as the sketch evolves.

A good sketcher should actually not need to erase his or her lines and can use a pen to sketch.  This a real challenge for Renee, who is accustomed to sketching with a pencil and erasing her lines because she usually presses hard on her paper from the start.  So today I was very gratified to see this short series of sketches Renee did with pen!  You can clearly see she began with sketching light lines and then darkened in the final lines!