Jed's Chicken Scratches

[Pictomancer]

I can relate about the over-correcting and detail displacement all too much. I too always seem to lose the energy and precision of the initial sketch/lines when painting over them...

Thanks for the advnice suggestion, but that's assuming you're confident already with the base drawing.

Which is what i realized I've been struggling with. Probably a reason also why my light guide drawing eventually turns into a heavy lined rough mess of a sketch, because I still struggle to reach the "correct" base drawing.

I tend not to see the mistakes with my base drawing until it's substantially rendered(?) light shadow and such, and after I revisit it about a day later with fresh eyes.

Also another interesting discovery is how hard it is to unlearn old tendencies. Case in point is me revisiting and working again on the Tyrion fanart 2 days later (and resorting to overlaying the thumbnail outlines to finally see what was blatantly wrong; eureka moment)



Also some quick anatomy/gesture practices using a bunch of anime figurine ads I cam across.



And more playing around with sketches.

One of the Molly face-stomping a Sentinel pose was referenced from a Jason Chan illustration while the other was my attempt at coming up with something vaguely similar in theme/feel.



I wonder when I'll reach the point where my un-referenced figures are almost as good as my referenced ones.