@05:03Wonderful work as always, although it threw me off when the first part cut off in the middle of a sentence, but I understand you have time restrictions with DA video.
I have a website to share with all the newbs: [link]
It's full of all sorts of stock photos, and you can do very detailed searches as well. It's helped me a lot.
Not at all, my pleasure! Mea culpa, Noble Squire... I've discovered San, Toon Up and the Launge cca. 2 nights ago, didn't know about the stuff before.
Great Adam Hughes once said that in the humid weather [ he lives in Atlanta ] paper 'thinks' that 4B ultra-soft pencil is 2B. I didn't notice such a drastic change or anything, but people in the know tell stories about dry=hard lead, humid weather=softer etc. even old skool comics masters knew it and had ready harder and softer leads, depending on the season and weather conditions.
So.. you're Wacom-ized finally..? Me too but I can't abandon pencil, ink and brush plus nibs and pens...
@05:02To draw with soft lead is the best. But doesn't it make it difficult to ink? Do you have to lighten the lines with kneaded eraser before inking - otherwise, how can you see the ink lines well enough to judge line weights? Thanks. Great demo.
@05:02Thank you. That's good to know. I continue to use different leads and pencil types - soft, hard, mechanical pencils, clutch pencils, non-photo blue - but haven't found a decent way to make really clean pencils. I've gone back to the traditional ink drawing method of lightening the pencils with gum eraser. It works, but it is time consuming. I also do my constructions in blue to cut down on the mess.
After watching almost all of your videos (I'm still going through them right now) I get the feeling that the next step for me is to start keeping the construction in my head instead of always putting it on paper: i.e. visualize the skeleton but only draw the contour of the muscle around it. This seems to be one of the abilities that comes after constant practice sketching.
really loved the way you aproached in your tuts
great job
PS: nice cat
I have a website to share with all the newbs: [link]
It's full of all sorts of stock photos, and you can do very detailed searches as well. It's helped me a lot.
Mea culpa, Noble Squire... I've discovered San, Toon Up and the Launge cca. 2 nights ago, didn't know about the stuff before.
Great Adam Hughes once said that in the humid weather [ he lives in Atlanta ] paper 'thinks' that 4B ultra-soft pencil is 2B. I didn't notice such a drastic change or anything, but people in the know tell stories about dry=hard lead, humid weather=softer etc. even old skool comics masters knew it and had ready harder and softer leads, depending on the season and weather conditions.
So.. you're Wacom-ized finally..? Me too but I can't abandon pencil, ink and brush plus nibs and pens...
Keep it up, face front and all the best. L8er,
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