#drawing methods

[lilac-bramble]

What sorta materials do you use for your artworks? Do you do digital, traditional, etc? Theyre some of my favorites on this hellsite tbh

Ahh thank you, that's so nice to hear!! My older works are all traditional. I normally do a pencil sketch, then ink over that with a 0.3 fineliner, then colour with promarkers and copics. More recent things have been digital, using Procreate. I never thought I'd make the change but I've absolutely loved it. There's a lot I still have to learn though!

Right now I'm having a hard time making anything, unfortunately. I've got completely uninspired and it's really horrible, I miss it so much. So if there's anything in particular you'd like to see me draw, let me know - maybe it can get me going again!

[improvewithtutorials]

FOUR Different Methods! [Drawing A Girl]

Here are the four methods I use when I sketch. These can be applied to drawing animals, men, or children. They can also be used with all sorts of styles. Ill...

[salytierra]

So do you use PhotoShop or Sai to draw? Just curious OwO

I use Clip Studio Paint ^^

I used to go with SAI, but then my computer got the update for Win10 and SAI stopped working properly. I didn’t know how to fix it so I looked for an alternative. And booooy I’m glad I did!! 

It’s way more advanced but doesn’t lag like Photoshop does. But mostly it’s because I discovered this watercolor effect that I’ve been overusing ever since. 

[hjbender]

Why are there no lines left over in your art examples? Are you not using an eraser? Cuz my art is messy af.

You mean like the circles and lines and stuff I use as a guide to draw on? 

Aside from the basic “circle with a cross in the middle of it with maybe some smaller circles where the eyes should go”, I don’t typically use guides. I mostly just draw by feel. It’s not the best or fastest way to do it. I’m trying to use shapes and guides more often, but usually I just start at the head and work my way down. I’ve generally got an idea of what I want and I just let my hand do the rest. I draw the guides very lightly, so they may not show up in my scans. Also, I do sometimes erase them if they get in the way.

If you haven’t already checked out my rough sketches tag, you can see some of those guides at work (and also see what my untouched art looks like, yikes).

Another thing is I use a .05 or a .07 mechanical pencil instead of, you know, an actual artist’s pencil that has nice dark graphite and actually responds to pressure senitivity instead of just snapping like mechanical lead. I have no less than 10 of these nice sketch pencils and they’ve lasted me 15 years so far because I haven’t used them.

All this and more will be discussed in my 2040 memoir titled “Don’t Do It Like Bender: A Simpler Way to Get Through Life”.

[brandonschaefer]

Proportion Drawing Tips - How to Create Accurate Drawings

[winter-wolf-pearl]

How I Draw in a Nutshell

MS Paint: I just choose the color black and use the brush tool creating the lines and then use different colors on the fill tool to add color

Adobe Photoshop: Do the coloring first using the brush tool then use brush tool again to make the lines

[archi-playground]

Architect and scholar Marco Frascari discusses the sometimes hidden meanings of drawings and what they reveal about those who drew them.

The Tell-Tale Drawing Interview with Marco Frascari 

“The word ‘design’ comes from the Italian word disegno. The word slowly arose within the field of architecture—not the other fine arts—and it was related to what was called ‘designation’ (disegnare equals designare).  If you think about it, the designer is the one who ‘designates’ where things go... ‘Design’ was much more broadly understood to be a craft—an ongoing and circular process—than it is now, when it is generally associated with a finished object that may be regarded as a work of art.”

[rachelballart]

This is classwork from my Drawing Methods Class while we were learning value.