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No Rulers
🕑 Added 2021-03-25 19:01:01 +0000 UTCSome lessons carve a groove in your brain. For whatever reason, this is one of those for me. In animation school, one of our teachers taught us that you might use a ruler to draw straight lines in your roughs, but never use one for your final, clean lines. That is what I have done ever since. Even for the finest, cleanest, most precise lines, it's valuable to take the time to draw them freehand.
The reason is simple: a ruled line robs life from your drawing. That was the theory, and that's what I started to notice in my own work and others.'
Take it or leave it.
Comments
Tealin
Yes indeed! See here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/15656285 And here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/11277942 And my virtual Pinterest board: https://twirlytumblfluff.tumblr.com/tagged/print
Tony Cliff
Wait, what “fake woodblock style?”
Tealin
I held to this for many years, but I realised doing studies for my fake-o woodblock print style that I couldn't get that ~flavour~ without ruled lines where warranted. Not sure it actually sped up the process any, but Ilike what it's given me. Your drawing look much better though.
Cat Farris
This is exactly how I feel, and I'm always shocked that no matter how janky an unruled line might look immediately after I pull it, that it looks perfectly at home next to all my other lines and adds life!
