Dammek For An Art Trade With @d4mmek!!

Dammek for an art trade with @d4mmek!!

IGNORE HIM. HE'S A WASTE OF SPACE.

sealion

Yeah, exactly! Let your art breathe! I don't remember the precise context enough to link to it or anything, but I heard someone say "finished, not perfect" once -- I live by that.

And if your old work looks bad to you, ask yourself why. Not so you can fix the finished existing piece, but so that you can go, "what can I do better next time I draw?" You dont have to love it or hate it. You don't even have to be analyzing it by some metric of artistic quality. Dont like it? change it. Don't know how? *that* is when you find a reference. (its good to have a reference in general but yknow. Thats when your art demands studies of you.)

About barely present/halfassed sketches.

Having a detailed sketch has helped me achieve some of my best artistic creations, and I'm proud to say I'm unafraid to do a refining sketch layer. But recently I've been working in traditional (non digital, dip pen and ink specifically) media, and it reminded me the glory of the minimal sketch.

Glory to the minimal sketch! So much easier to erase, for one!

For another, it's freeing. It doesnt have to line up with the lineart at all. It's simply not saying enough for that to matter. I immediately stop worrying about accurately lining the sketch when the sketch is simply too basic bitch for that. Suddenly it becomes all about that sweet sweet lineart. And I fucking love lineart. Line weight, line saturation, line detail, it all communicates so much, way before you ever add any color.

If you follow this blog you'll (probably?) know that I am not an artist who frequently moves to the lineart step. A lot of my work is just refined sketches, because working close on lines is a lot of work, not gonna lie. Doesn't stop me from loving it, but as a result I just don't do it as much as I'd like. Especially not work that lets the lineart shine through above all else. Even with my dip pen and ink, I often find myself moving past the lineart step while I draw. Once you get that far, it's easy to feel dedicated.

I guess my point here is wing it. Here's a pen drawing of pants that I did with no sketch at all. Those were always my favorite art lessons in class: Just uhhh draw some fucking fabric i guess bro.