Something else that occurred to me is if you zoom in too closely while working large, it's easy to get hung up on the lack of perfection in your lines. These imperfections often look like astounding perfection when the final image (at the intended resolution) is completed. The flip side of this point is that you should work large and scale down the drawing after it's completed.

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