Begin from the palest wash.
Every brief opens on the lightest tint — a single dilution we can still walk back. Decisions get darker only when the page asks for it.
One ink, the whole range.
No second color is added to fix a layout. We dilute, layer, or load the brush — the contrast is in the hand, not the swatch library.
Leave the paper visible.
Negative space is part of the composition, not the part we forgot. Roughly a third of every page stays untouched ground.
Commit with one stroke.
The final mark is dry-brush and unrepeatable. We approve it on the first pass or we redraw the sheet — never retouch.