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Noodle Pinup WIP
🕑 Added 2019-03-20 10:00:02 +0000 UTCThe lineart wasn't turning out so good...
I think I should share some more of the experiments or the drawings that are failures while I'm here, if I can talk about something interesting while I'm at it.
I've been talking out loud on twitter and with some friends about the problem where you can FEEL your art dying as you're doing the "inking" layer. And it's something I've wondered WHY I'm doing it that way. Inking is a nice way to get clean art, but it's an art form that was designed for teams to do. A master inker would be paired with a master penciller and a master colorist. People now, have taught themselves to do all three. And try to do all three to a level of quality where no part of their picture shows flaws.
And it kinda drains the life out of me. Here I could see it draining the life out of the drawing. This is down to a number of factors. The sketchy pencil allows for more blurry vision and your brain to do the heavy lifting of putting things together. It's also more complete, the lines feel more confident. I wasn't really inking this drawing very well, the gentle curves of the pencil didn't lend themselves to the style of inking I was using.
So lately, I've been taking it to heart that, instead of drawing over the sketch drawings which I love, and doubling the amount of work while killing a lot of the energy, I'll try to just... clean up my sketches. Bring them to a level of finish that I can live with. They don't have to be perfectly clean but just clean enough that nothing sticks out as an obvious mistake anymore.
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Psudonym
The post Impressionist Painter, Henri Matisse did this thing in his original sketches which was to draw the lines over and over and over and over again on the same canvas. And then erase down to what he thought was the best, most representative of the line that he wanted. His work looks simple but it's the result of carving out from a sketchy mass of lines.
Mad_Stylus
Thats actually a thing I've been trying - Cleaning up my sketches. I think it was Qsy who said it didn't make sense to him to throw away already perfectly good lines. Issues I've run into is where the sketch lines aren't precise enough, or a part is such a sketchy mass of lines that, in order to look good, I'd have to erase the entire section and draw anew.
