Betwixt Semester Work:I wanted to keep my hand loose and conditioned over break so I didn’t have to
Betwixt Semester Work:I wanted to keep my hand loose and conditioned over break so I didn’t have to come back and reteach myself how to draw for the new semester. (Happens to me literally every winter and summer break.) So I did a bunch of portrait study and a little bit of full-figure study with limits: Minimal erasing, no more than 5 minutes on a figure (ideally only 2 or 3), and no feeling bad about wonky looking proportions. Paying particular attention to: Where is the body generally moving and what are the defining features of this face that will make it recognizable? Moving forward into actually putting together Seaside, I want to be mindful of the following:1. Each character needs to be consistently, visually recognizable throughout the story. Facial cues are important to this. 2. Motion is more interesting and accurate when I keep my pencil work big-picture.3. Keeping the pencil lines vague and fleshing out definition and value with pens and ink helps the inked (final) work retain the instinctual, active quality of the First Line, which I hate losing. 4. Realistic / convincing ≠ Technically Accurate -- source link
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