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I've been meaning to write a tutorial explaining how I turn a blank piece of paper into a finished drawing for a long time. Often when I'm writing my critique for people, I find myself in need of a graphical explanation of what I want to say. Hence I figure if I have my own tutorial here, I can point to bits of it to explain my way of doing things. This one deals with the blank page -> Pencil lineart stages of the drawing. From here, it can go to either: Inked outline and Pen shading Pencil shading Inked outline and Coloured Pencils or Digital colouring. I have a tutorial which is mostly up to date on how I do digital colouring [link] I'll hopefully scan the remaining steps to completion of whatever I decide to do for this drawing and then make a further addition to this tutorial out of it. Anyhow, I don't know how much help such a general overview of everything will be, I just hope that someone either learns something from it, or twists one of my ideas to work for them. IF YOU WANT CLARIFICATION/ELABORATION ON ANYTHING HERE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE DON'T HESITATE TO ASK!! Anyone's welcome to use, distribute or modify the method and text of this in any way they choose with or without notifying me, although I always appreciate being allowed to see my advice going to good use.  PS Isn't it amazing how much my handwriting looks like the Kirsten ITC font I used for this. xD In the title, "A quick guide to everything" is typed, while "Part 1 - Lineart" is written. I don't know how many people would notice if I didn't point that out!  Comments
 YES...thanks for this...I'm sure it will come in great handy for my next drawing!
 BTW as of right now, you are my official tutorial guide person!Congrats!  -- I'm crazy, and I'm okay with that! ^_^   Wrong!Stickman made me laugh.Well this is an interesting insight into your method. I do my figures a little differently but I also don't have any one set way of doing them. xD It's anything goes some days! -- This user is not a natural formation.  With great comprehensive tutorials like this, I better set a deadline for myself to actually sit down and do some drawings.
Btw, if I do manage to come up with some sort of stickman sketches, you better not laugh at me, OK?  I WILL.....um.....try to use this. :razz: I'm usually impulsive when it comes to drawing, not uniform and neat like this. x3 The only one I ever made a stick figure for was the posing picture.
-- Hey mom! Look what I drew!  *looks* Ohhh! What a lovely Giraffe! ..........*is holding up a picture of a hat* STICK FIGURES MAKE THE WORLD GO AROUND!
 Heh, I'm very objective in everything I do, I have quite a black-and-white way of looking at things so I like to have an empirical method on hand to move everything through in a tried and tested manner. Stickmen really do work though, it was one of the founding techniques I was given by ~jezcardia when I first embarked upon drawing humanoid characters way back in 4th form. I simply can't recommend them enough, they work magic on proportions, poses, everything. -- Brought to you by the Idiot Inquisition "What can we say, we just fucking hate them" DA says this would-be critic isn't rich enough to be allowed to write proper critique... but I do it anyway. I started a stick-zura in my driving class after a test today. c: You're right, it IS easier. The crappy thing is that I ran out of room for his legs. D: Blaaaaarghghgh.
-- Hey mom! Look what I drew! *looks* Ohhh! What a lovely Giraffe! ..........*is holding up a picture of a hat* Good job! Sounds like double good news in that sentence actually! Keep trying it, it's a kickass technique, above and beyond pretty much any other kickass technique I can think of. -- Brought to you by the Idiot Inquisition "What can we say, we just fucking hate them" DA says this would-be critic isn't rich enough to be allowed to write proper critique... but I do it anyway. Thanks very much! Give it a shot, I'd never laugh at someone's efforts.
By the way, if you get a few photos of yourself, I'd be happy to make good on that offer to try drawing you. -- Brought to you by the Idiot Inquisition "What can we say, we just fucking hate them" DA says this would-be critic isn't rich enough to be allowed to write proper critique... but I do it anyway. When someone first told me to start with a stickman, I drew something like that and quickly realised it wasn't going to work at all. I figured I'd save someone else the bother of repeating my mistake! xD My method's fairly constant, although I may have to change it a little now I'm slowly inching into the area of using perspectives. 3D stickman is an oxymoron. I'd be interested to see how you do yours though. I love writing these things, maybe next time you draw something, just scan it at each step. -- Brought to you by the Idiot Inquisition "What can we say, we just fucking hate them" DA says this would-be critic isn't rich enough to be allowed to write proper critique... but I do it anyway. |
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