Darktiste Sketchbook

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Voltorb,Electrode,Exeggcute,Exeggutor,Cubone,Marowak,Hitmonchan,Lickitung,Koffing,Rhyhorn

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I am paying tribute to the first 150 pokemon that pretty much what i do posting all my result in here and if i am learn anything from doing it is that it important to have construction line.I am putting effort in doing quality linework but i am not at the level that satisfy my standard.I am not copying for the sake of copying i am copying to improve my curve and linequality and also to train my observation.
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Gotcha. It won't come up in pokemon probably but a lot of expressiveness concerning lines has to do with using "thick to thin" or "thin to thick" lines. You can see this in many old master drawings; sometimes they'll just wrap lines of varying thickness around a form to define it without using any "shading"



For Leonardo, line was a way of capturing movement. He was obsessed with the movements of water; particularly water's effect on stone over time. That thinking carried over into much of his linework; most notably in his renditions of human hair.

Aside from describing "movement"(or gesture, if you will), line also has emotionally expressive qualities. You can also learn a lot from examining how artists have used line as an expressive device. Botticelli did a series of silverpoint drawings(you could actually recreate this medium by drawing with jeweler's wire, anyway it's similar to pen and ink in some ways) for Dante's Divine Comedy that demonstrate very precise and expressive linework. Many of his forms are not anatomically or technically correct but his linework is intuitive and beautiful still. I wasn't able to find an adequately large file to demonstrate what I'm talking about but you should really look them up if you haven't seen them. They were kind of like an early form of animation in that you can see Virgil and Dante going through sequential scenes but within the same panel.

In terms of observational drawing once you learn to copy abstract shapes(what angles and whatnot make up the pokemon you're looking at) you can then start to worry about edge definition(how "soft" or "hard" is a gradation or edge) and value. The Bargue Drawing Course is a good series of plates to study from if you're wanting to get better at that. You might find it helpful to try drawing a couple of pokemon upside down in order to help see the angles and intersections of lines in a more objective fashion; it's counter-intuitive but I've found it useful.

Good luck