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since I see it discussed both online and among my students so often, I just wanna say*: (*this is value neutral, I don't care how you draw your lines)

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I never moved away from chicken scratch because i like how my drawings look in that style, but it always bothered trained artists so now i just don't draw anymore ;3;

Yep. I get the questions so often because apparently the other teachers just tell them 'DON'T DRAW SKETCHY' when they mean chicken scratching, and then never elaborate further. 💀

My personal experience with art school was being told to stop doing what I enjoyed doing (chicken scratch, sketching, graphite on paper), and *also* observing other students being like way, WAY better than me at the things I was being told to do instead of what I liked. Disheartening.