I had considered using a grimoire more as 'tracing' a geometry, where the aether that you channel into the book will be drawn to the conductive ink on the pages and it kind of template-forms the shape you are going for.
Free-drawing is more like drawing the shape in the air without 'tracing' the geometry you wrote around before. Thus those who can free-draw must either have the geometries memorized perfectly or know exactly how to construct new geometries they want to use.
Using a grimoire as a focus is just making sure that you draw the geometry perfect. Every line will be as perfect as it is drawn in the grimoire, every aspect will be in place. This is why I had thought that free-drawing is possible (just like how some artists are able to draw without looking at a reference image or pose) but is very tricky and missing one part or drawing a line crooked could result in either a nonfunctioning geometry, a sub-par geometry, or a completely different geometry all together (possibly dangerous!) which is why only the most skilled or mathematically adept geometry users would attempt to free-draw.
Free-drawing is more like drawing the shape in the air without 'tracing' the geometry you wrote around before. Thus those who can free-draw must either have the geometries memorized perfectly or know exactly how to construct new geometries they want to use.
Using a grimoire as a focus is just making sure that you draw the geometry perfect. Every line will be as perfect as it is drawn in the grimoire, every aspect will be in place. This is why I had thought that free-drawing is possible (just like how some artists are able to draw without looking at a reference image or pose) but is very tricky and missing one part or drawing a line crooked could result in either a nonfunctioning geometry, a sub-par geometry, or a completely different geometry all together (possibly dangerous!) which is why only the most skilled or mathematically adept geometry users would attempt to free-draw.
