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Sketching pencil recommendations?
I'm happily drawing after work most nights now and I'm needing some recommendations on pencils. For years, I've sketched drawn with only a single instrument - a mechanical .7mm pencil. I liked the nice sharp lines and whatnot BUT I also did not sketch as much as try to draw something in one go. A couple of weeks ago I got a Prismacolor non-photo blue for sketching, which I liked a lot except that the color is too dark. I'd go over it with my mechanical pencil but now I find that I prefer some lines to be thicker with more variance in width.
So what I'm looking for are:
- a harder colored pencil for the initial sketches
- a pencil for g
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Working on a suitable style
I've been trying to draw regularly in the evenings, to keep improving and to see what I do well. At some point, a style will emerge. One thing I know is that what I used to aspire to - the more photorealistic superhero style - is *not* my cup of tea. I don't love the style or trying to draw it, but for the longest time it was almost the only style whose work I read regularly - except for Tintin.
I've got some good clues to what works for me in my newest scrapbook uploads. Sketching with a colored pencil first helps a lot; so does working from the Famous Artists Cartoon Course. So far working with a shaping & drawing guidelines for the e
Where I'm learning from
As a kid, the goal for my drawing seemed to be to reality, to create things that looked real. For whatever reason I aspired to 'real art' in spite of my love for comics & cartoons. Not that there's anything wrong with it since artistic skills can all be pretty useful. But I've come to the conclusion that 1) I don't have the patience make things look real and 2) I don't want to draw super-realistic stuff anyway - I love comics & cartoons. So I got myself both of Ben Caldwell's books (Action & Fantasy) and Sherm Cohen's 'Cartooning: Character Design' last year, but what's really making a difference is the old Famous Artists Cartoon Course,
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