you are like the gateway to good links :P
Thank you for that, I'm like a library when it comes to anything I'm really interested in
Regarding the panels, I know that they were created by you, don't worry.
do you have any comments on mechanical pencil vs pencil pencil?
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Personally, I don't have a preference for sketching. I have a preference for using regular pencils when drawing on higher-quality drawing paper, or any 'big' subject matter on big paper. You can't really get a large range of motion with a mechanical pencil on large paper, so it's definitely inferior for when you're making bigger drawings, at least in the first stage of starting a drawing.
In terms of what mostly everyone here is interested in, mechanical pencil is probably the best, 0.5mm as well. There are many reasons mangaka use mechanical pencils for drafting. They're cheap, don't need to be sharpened, and they feel nice to draw with. But besides that, you can achieve a variety of line easily. You can get thin lines, and then thicker lines by going over your lines repeatedly. Pencils dull quickly and you obviously don't get this variety of line unless you're sharpening frequently.
Some things to consider when using mechanical pencils is your lead type. HB, B, 2B, and 3B are your options, generally. These can make a difference; not everyone just uses HB by default. HB is the hardest of these bunch, 3B the softest. The softness can help prevent that 'sharp' feeling you can sometimes get from drawing with a mechanical pencil.
Anyways, I am more picky about the paper I use. You will never catch me drawing on printer paper. It's just not worth it when there are other thicker, affordable papers you might be able to find. This is something I think beginners often overlook and they will have a much more enjoyable drawing experience if they get a better paper to use.
Regarding troubles with drawing things 1:1, you should try something like this out.
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It's not the easiest thing to set up, but after you've done it one time it should be pretty easy after that. Set up the PSD as 8.5 x 11, 200 dpi should be fine. Input an image, crop out what you want, and resize it until the width is 1/2 of the PSD canvas width. Then draw a thin box around the image that you're drawing on a new layer. Duplicate the thin box layer and drag it to the side while holding control. Print it out, and then you can use the box as a reference for getting the proportions more accurate. You are also better able to see the differences in your studies by doing this.
although i have actually been getting over a condition that was suffering for 2 years that actually affected my memory and focus, so its possibly a lag from that, whenever i am ill (as i am now as well) it gets even worse, until i am fully recovered.
That sucks
. Well, I'm glad that you are getting over the condition. Focus can be pretty important.
About the MBTI-thing, my type is different than what I've tested for in the past. Reading stuff from personalityhacker and 16personality types is a better way to figure it out, I think, I just asked in the off-chance that you already knew :P.
the reason i try and draw with feeling is to push my expressiveness beyond "that which i know" and try to draw things that i have not yet learnt, or cannot yet draw, or dont know what looks like. mostly its about getting over the thought "i dont know how to draw that yet"
If you think about this logically, you are gambling by doing this. It's similar to trying to get a monkey to randomly type a sentence of English. Or trying to get a chess ai to play go. The knowledge isn't there. Art is partially difficult because you can't brute-force being able to draw things by sheer effort. It's why some beginners or layman can't get past a single starting point. Any progress that is made for any person is going to because they actually
have been looking at what things look like, or even making studies of real objects, and using this to fuel their drawings.
That's not to say you can't put things together, or invent things. But you can't invent something that is a real object in reality by accident without knowing already what it looks like. You could be able to draw 99% of the animals in the world, you still wouldn't be able to invent the other 1%. Anyways, the moral of the story is: there are a few categories to be aware of, that relate to the ability to draw objects that would require you to have at least seen them once before.
1.Things you can actually draw accurately and you are aware of them
2.Things you already are capable of drawing accurately, but you don't recognize this ability
3.Things you don't know how to draw and you are aware that you can't draw them accurately
4.Things that are mutations of real things. Or a certain style of drawing things. These things are likely to be reminiscent of Rob Liefield, or horribly inaccurate, invented anatomy. It is a mismatch in that you've actually created a different thing that is similar to the real thing, but is really a mutation. These things(the mutations) can also exist in the other categories, such as styles you are trying to learn to use!
The 'things' that exist in each category are free to move between categories, based on your thoughts/efforts, or lack of thoughts/efforts. If you think by drawing 'expressively' that you are pushing past 'what you already know', you are actually moving things from #2 to #1, or creating a #4 thing, I think. It's important to mention that repeating the drawings of things in #4 without ever looking at the real object, or descriptions of the real object, will not get you closer to drawing the real thing. You can mistakenly believe you've succeeded at doing so, but you actually created a new, original, mutation object in #1.
Sorry for saying a lot of things again .-.
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