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 Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 5:54 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 1:12 pm
Alright, is it safe to assume that these are mostly chibi? If you want to do less chibi-style drawings, then you need to pay attention to the shape of people. You need to know where elbows and knees go, you need to give them wrists and ankles, and muscles. Arms and legs have lots of curves in them that you need to be aware of. I recommend looking at some books on anatomy, how to draw people, or just do some drawing from life.
I know a lot of people really hate doing it, but drawing circles first helps. Sketch out a circle for the head, so that you can get a nice smooth skull shape, and add a chin. Follow this up with a neck, shoulders, and then the rest of the body. Make sure everything in the body is completely even! Posture and perspective will change the size and shape of things, but you need to think about the muscles in the body and where they are going. They should not just disappear, or get smaller/larger. They only get closer/farther, bunched/stretched.
Draw a shape for the chest, then the abdomen (don't forget this!), and continue on through the pelvis. If it helps, as you are drawing someone, think about your own body as you do it. If you draw one big shape for a leg, think to yourself "No, my legs are made up of three parts, the thighs, knees, and shins." Then of course you need ankles and feet at the bottom, but you get the idea. Think about your body, and look/feel it if you have to. Reach up and figure out how your arm connects to your body if you have to. Just make sure to think of the body in parts, rather than a whole!
Draw the whole body using this method, and then add details. Draw a cross on the face to know where the eyes, nose, mouth, and ears should go. It helps, trust me. Add the smooth lines for the body, then the clothing over the top of that. Draw everything before you start erasing lines! Once you have the messiest, sloppiest, crappiest set of lines in the world, you can start FINALIZING. You can now apply smooth, dark, careful lines. Draw each part in a solid stroke so that it does not appear bumpy. Think of it like painting. You don't want to lift your brush partway through a line: that would change the whole texture of the paint! In the same way, you need smooth consistent lines for the final drawing, to give it polish.
When your final lines are done, you can erase the rest.
Now that mainly applies to non-chibi drawings, but some of it does apply to chibi art as well. With chibi drawings you still want nice smooth lines, and to make body parts even (though attention to the shape gets a little distorted).
Another thing that might help you is to use different sized pens or different lightness/darkness of lines. Darker/Thicker should be reserved for bold outlines and things that are closer. Lighter/Smaller is for details and things that are far away. You don't want to use too large a line and have things bleed together, and you don't want lines to overlap each other oddly and have things get confused. Be careful about that.
Anyway, I hope this advice helps! You don't have to do things this way all the time, but it helps to try out every method at least once so that you get a more well-rounded knowledge of how drawing works and how people do it. Happy drawing!
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Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 7:32 pm
Thank you~ This advice was really helpful~ And yes I mostly do chibi's at least on the computer. I tend to fail trying to draw other things on the computer >< I try to experiment with different styles and such when I draw on paper. I've tried doing to circles and crosses thing but it doesn't work. I've been trying to do it for years because I've just kept telling myself 'it will make my pictures better' but it just doesn't seem to work for me. I draw 10 times better without using circles and crosses and such. I have a friend who draws faces with crosses and it works great for her but it doesn't work for me. Anywho I don't really want my pictures to be all that realistic and have completely perfect anatomy because I think it takes away from the charm a bit. Drawing things too perfect isn't really my style but thank you for the critique~
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 4:38 pm
I'm glad the advice helped! Yeah, it mostly depends what kind of art you like to do. If someone told Picasso that his face proportions were off he'd probably be like: stare
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Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 3:42 pm
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