08-25-2013, 09:41 AM
Quote:Also I sketch at fast speeds, which also causes inaccuracy, can't really help it.That reads as an excuse not to improve at something you're bad at. Check out the drawings on this blog post by Matt Jones. Those are very conservative and readable, and I doubt any of them took more then a few minutes. You can absolutely have both confident lines and quick drawing, it's a matter of knowing what line you want to make and training your hand to be dextrous enough to make it. The argument that drawing quicker results in more lines doesn't add up, what could be quicker than drawing a single line?
If you feel the need to restate a line even if it's accurate, erasing it and drawing a thicker line would look neater. There could be situations where you're going for a more messy, scratchy style, but I don't think that's the best way for studies to look.
As for shading with scribbles, I think it winds up being distracting because it creates a random pattern of very tiny dots, and the eye is drawn to the busy detail. People who were masters of hatching and crosshatching (like Franklin Booth and Rembrandt) also created tiny patterns like that but they knew where to distribute the patterns for the best effect, and they were dextrous enough to space the lines so they created an even tone. If you're interested in shading with line, do some master copies of pen and ink illustrations where line shading is done well to get the technique. Or you could just shade with tone since you're working digitally.