Rainbow Lime
How do you keep your sketchy lines so neat yet reatin that 'sketchy' style to them?
I do all of my penciling with mechanical pencils, and all of the "finished" pencil pieces on my deviantART excluding two (so, all *but*
this and
this) are done on marker paper. I attribute a lot to my paper, to be honest. I get really grumpy using anything else. The two that I linked, in my opinion, are fuzzier because they were done on nastygross paper.
So, you can see, maybe not the
lines but the shading is a lot grainier, due to the graininess of the paper.
Anyway, I feel that a lot of what you do when you want to make something "sketchy" is not about the lines, but about the line fills. For example, the pants on
this thing have all the hatching.
This and
this are examples with little to no shadows, but with patterns and so-on for clothing patterns.
Rainbow Lime
Oh yeah and hands o.O Got any way to try and get them digits down pat? I've used the method where you use boxes but it ends up clocky and awkward looking.
I draw a box for the, uh, palm area, and then I draw the fingers in two boxy rectangles. I'm pretty sure it does, in fact, look weird.
Rainbow Lime
Lastly, got any tips for clothing in general? I find myself drawing figures but fearfull of dressing them since all my folds look static and er....well it looks like a paperdoll xD You know how you just stick their clothes on the frame? Folds, clothing ideas, shading etc. I struggle with all this and more!
Try looking up images of the clothing you're trying to draw? I do tons of google image searches when I do the clothing on any given picture.
The Titanium Spork
Sorry, I haven't had time to do new inks, but I do have
this <3.
The shading looks quite uneven. I think that the picture is too big for the detail it conveys, basically. What type of paper did you use? I know a lot of what I say about pencil work is "dang computer paper is kind of meh," but, heheheh...
Not completely lost with it, though. There is still some shading to do, but it is much, much more difficult to keep things even. I can't really give any advice on how to do it with paper that doesn't erase that well, other than make sure you have an eraser that takes to your paper well on hand, and then don't be afraid to erase parts of your shading if they don't look good, to redo them.
Kyzak
um could u explain that a little more?
If you mean the inking, then uh, no. I don't think I can.
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