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27. Do you warm up before getting to the good stuff? If so, what is it you draw to warm up with
Naw I'm so excited to draw my ideas I end up just jumping into every drawing right away lol I know there are like specific things people do to warm up (like drawing lines/circles/cubes) but honestly that just feels like busy work to me haha :')
Every time I've told myself 'this is just gonna be a warm up' I end up getting either distracted or like making it into something I actually wanna draw and spending hours on it haha. I'm pretty sure this mini phyuri comic art was originally meant to be a 'warm up' but instead I got obsessed with Dani's expression in the third panel (until I was happy with it) ....and then struggling rly hard to get the last panel to look right - the piece isn't my best work but it was still fun to draw/finish!
here's the timelapse (cw: flashing/flickering frames) of that third panel I mentioned if you're interested!
I've been really enjoying turning the sketch layer into the line art layer by erasing/redrawing the lines... sometimes I keep everything on one/two layers too to avoid overcomplicating it! It feels so similar to like... moulding a proper sculpture out of clay :)
While I wouldn't necessarily call this a 'warm up', I do sometimes sketch stuff out on sticky notes/paper [i rambled about about this here] and then take a photo of it and import that into procreate. Sometimes a pencil/pen on paper just feels more freeing than drawing on my iPad straight away, like I don't have to worry about it being perfect? I generally find the process of taking a complete mess of lines and shapes and transforming them into something clearer very fascinating and rewarding!
Overall, most of my art I have posted is the end result of hours of me desperately trying my best (over and over again) to get some vivid mental image out of my brain and onto the canvas :') I could probably figure out a way to work smarter not harder but honestly sometimes chaos is FUN >:)
12. Easiest part of body to draw
Probably heads/faces to be honest - I can... mostly draw Dan and Phil's from muscle memory alone in my current style... although I still feel like it can be inconsistent from piece to piece at times :(
If I'm ever drawing someone new (like for a commission) I love analysing the reference images and slowly building up what makes their head/face unique to them :3 Does require a bit of finessing/trial-and-error during the drawing process but it's a lot of fun once I get to the stage I'm happy with it!
6. Anything that might inspire you subconsciously
Probably any cartoon/animated show out there that I've watched... I think most recently The Owl House had a huuuge impact on how I drew expressions without me realising it did until recently. It is a very beautifully animated show and I love all the character designs so much!
I'm 90% sure I started drawing certain mouths like this 'duck' one for phil (and sometimes dan) in this doodle i drew for twitter (below) because of the main character Luz's mouth shape!
I just find that lil curved bit so cute and it feels perfect for D&P's cartoony expressions - especially Phil's little natural smirk :3
