Todays Doodle for Critique

[ByrnBucks]

Update pics of backbones. These are so hard to draw for me, but I'm trying. These are two of the best that I've done so far.

Good evening Zito, I might have spotted something that hinders incremental progress during single backbone drawing. This is a mistake that I made and took quite a while realize.

It appears you are using a drawing program, maybe procreate or something similar. This seems like a good idea but here is the problem. You draw a single line towards becoming a backbone, you try and do this in a single stroke… there comes a point where you are displeased and then implore the dreaded eraser tool. Because you are in that electronic program all traces of that line are gone forever… there is no reference for making progress, the next line has no more chance of being perfect than the first. This can repeated a thousand times and unless a miracle occurs all your left with is a blank drawing document.

So a piece of paper and a pencil is the simplest and greatest tool for learning. Now replay the previous events only draw lightly in pencil and get as far as you can before you notice a flat spot, off angle, drastic curve, anything. Say its a flat spot add a little to the edge, lightly erase some don't make it perfect just get it headed in the desired direction. Continue your backbone towards the center make small adjustments, add, take away, but drawing lightly you can build off of each line and you can still see where you were and how much closer to desirable you are getting.

Give it a shot, couldn’t hurt and have a great day. BB

 

[Zito]

Good evening Zito, I might have spotted something that hinders incremental progress during single backbone drawing. This is a mistake that I made and took quite a while realize.

It appears you are using a drawing program, maybe procreate or something similar. This seems like a good idea but here is the problem. You draw a single line towards becoming a backbone, you try and do this in a single stroke… there comes a point where you are displeased and then implore the dreaded eraser tool. Because you are in that electronic program all traces of that line are gone forever… there is no reference for making progress, the next line has no more chance of being perfect than the first. This can repeated a thousand times and unless a miracle occurs all your left with is a blank drawing document.

So a piece of paper and a pencil is the simplest and greatest tool for learning. Now replay the previous events only draw lightly in pencil and get as far as you can before you notice a flat spot, off angle, drastic curve, anything. Say its a flat spot add a little to the edge, lightly erase some don't make it perfect just get it headed in the desired direction. Continue your backbone towards the center make small adjustments, add, take away, but drawing lightly you can build off of each line and you can still see where you were and how much closer to desirable you are getting.

Give it a shot, couldn’t hurt and have a great day. BB

Thank you for the advice. This is the first thing ive drawn using an xp-pen, and i hate it. I can actually draw way better with pencil and paper. The only reason why i switched to this is because it's really easy to upload, plus I kinda was thinking that I needed to learn how to do it with autodesk and xp-pen. The free paper and pencils are nice too. thanks kevin

 

[Goldjockey]

Thank you for the advice. This is the first thing ive drawn using an xp-pen, and i hate it. I can actually draw way better with pencil and paper. The only reason why i switched to this is because it's really easy to upload, plus I kinda was thinking that I needed to learn how to do it with autodesk and xp-pen. The free paper and pencils are nice too. thanks kevin

Draw with whatever you're most comfortable with, Kevin, and don't be afraid to try different things to see what works best for you. Eventually you'll probably move to an iPad running Procreate, but a Number 2 pencil is the perfect tool starting out. It's what I, and most others started with . Don't forget about Sam's how to video on drawing scrollwork!

 

[mitch]

The biggest advantage of a pencil and paper is the ability to keep turning the page around and looking at your scrolls from every angle. Scrolls that look ok “right side up” can look pretty bad “upside down”. I don’t know if you can rotate a digital image like that.