Art Challenge: Sequential Art
I am way behind, 12 and 13 are in my head I know what I want to draw but when I sit down I get nothing. I just have been in an art slump. But I had an idea for this weeks challenge. It’s the four stages of my drawing. I figure it is always interesting to see how other people do things so I would show my method. And it would make it simpler for yal to critique me if you knew what I did.

The feet are really hard to see, but they are just real quick scribbles to get the gist of what I will be drawing. I draw in no scan blue so I went over it in light pencil.

The legs are where I start to draw. These are the lines I decide to keep, this is where I draw and erase. I really like these lines. They are naturally weighted lines. I hope to do that with ink one day.

Torso, the first inking. This is to get all the lines done in. I usually ink with the 01 Micron, and then I use the 005 for detail and the other thicknesses when the mood strikes. The left hand is a little messed up. I would have done what I could to fix it when I went back and thickened lines but it was in the wrong section for that.

The Face is the final inking. I thicken the line and add detail. Ruby told me to use a thick line on the outer edge so I tried it. I like the look, but when I look at her drawings I can see a greater variance in the line thickness. And she has a flow that you don’t even notice. I don’t have that yet. I was going to make the eyes glow, I was all ready to make all the lines around the eyes thin but my hand shook. I ended up using standard thick lines to cover the mistake.

This was going to be a male but I fell in love with those lips. After I drew them in pencil I had to keep them. I couldn’t bring myself to redraw them masculine. I had the whole picture blocked out for a man.