Urbane_Guerrilla: Art Lesson: You're not yet really confident in your anatomy -- the flesh parts. But you are confident up in the hair. See how you've drawn the hair using single, clean lines for all of it? Now the same is wanted for your body lines too. Do you see how these are sketchy, scribbly?
You have, I suppose, a pencil line in there. That pencilling may be scribbly now, but we can cure that problem in a little bit. For just now, with your pen or brush (or electronic effect like these on a tablet) -- prepare same, hold it ready, and stare at the line you are going to ink a moment, thinking: I want my inked line to go exactly *there* and not half a line thickness to the left of that, or a thought like that.
Now ink that line in a single, rather quick, stroke. Commit to the making of just one line, not scribbly-scribbly. Cleans the art up immensely. It takes a little actual doing of it to get the line just where you want it every time, but it does wonders for the picture.
You've got more practice on faces than on bodies, amirite? Their lines are nice and clean too. (It's often this way.)
You've got good enthusiasm, a pretty good sense of motion which cleaning up your body lines until they're smooth like your hair lines will improve, and your anatomy is progressing well.
Live-draw a model skeleton. Live-draw a model skeleton UPSIDE DOWN. That trick (doable by copying a book illustration too) makes you concentrate on drawing what you actually see, and not some kind of symbol for what you're sure comes in order -- top down or bottom up. Drawing anything upside down accomplishes the point of the exercise.
Urbane_Guerrilla: You can worry less about getting the line placed just right if you draw nice and big -- *not* little micro sketches you can cover up with one hand. Draw as big as the business end of a snow shovel. Big paper. That way, a slightly misplaced line is but little misplaced in proportion to the rest of the picture. Use the whole arm to draw big with -- smooths the lines out too (teachers learn that trick for using the chalkboard).
x1x1: @Urbane_Guerrilla: Oh wow it's been 2 months and I never saw this. Thank you so much for the critique and advice! I appreciate it a lot and I do whatever I can to improve at a nice pace.
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You have, I suppose, a pencil line in there. That pencilling may be scribbly now, but we can cure that problem in a little bit. For just now, with your pen or brush (or electronic effect like these on a tablet) -- prepare same, hold it ready, and stare at the line you are going to ink a moment, thinking: I want my inked line to go exactly *there* and not half a line thickness to the left of that, or a thought like that.
Now ink that line in a single, rather quick, stroke. Commit to the making of just one line, not scribbly-scribbly. Cleans the art up immensely. It takes a little actual doing of it to get the line just where you want it every time, but it does wonders for the picture.
You've got more practice on faces than on bodies, amirite? Their lines are nice and clean too. (It's often this way.)
You've got good enthusiasm, a pretty good sense of motion which cleaning up your body lines until they're smooth like your hair lines will improve, and your anatomy is progressing well.
Live-draw a model skeleton. Live-draw a model skeleton UPSIDE DOWN. That trick (doable by copying a book illustration too) makes you concentrate on drawing what you actually see, and not some kind of symbol for what you're sure comes in order -- top down or bottom up. Drawing anything upside down accomplishes the point of the exercise.
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Thank you, again! I hope you enjoy my work.~