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The Trump Administration is trying to define us trans folk out of existence- but we DO exist, we HAVE existed, and we sure as hell will CONTINUE to exist! Please, make sure you get out and vote, bring attention to trans voices, and support us wherever you can!

Our civil rights are at stake- by their own words, they believe inclusive policies “wrongfully extend civil rights protections to people who should not have them.” Please read this article on the proposed revision of the legal definition of gender!  

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Anonymous asked:

Any tips for lineart?

glo-s-s answered:

Well honestly I don’t do line art, I do a sketch then kinda just clean it up until it looks good enough, but I can mention a couple things I keep in mind during that process:

One thing I’ll see a lot of from beginners is chicken scratch lines or overall unconfident lines in general. First it’s important that I draw a distinction between chicken scratch and sketchy lines so you know if you’re doing one or the other, chicken scratch is when you’re doing multiple lines in succession to get the appearance of one line, drawing the same line over itself is not chicken scratch

You’ve probably seen similar images 1000 different times but :

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If you have problems making the full line in one go then you probably as mentioned before have little line confidence, I recommend doing lots of regular gesture drawings (I’d say 90-60 seconds per image if you’re just starting out and lowering it as you go on. Gesture drawings are to help you get a feel for what lines are the most important in a figure along with building muscle memory for strokes and stuff like that which will help your line confidence) along with consciously making an effort to draw a full line rather than a bunch of small ones connected. Control z as much as you need to if you’re doing digital!


Another thing I see a lot of beginner artists struggle with is line weight, there seems to be this misconception that it’s something that’s felt out or done at random but that’s just not fully true, there is a lot of thinking involved in good line weights

Some things that affect my line weights are : 

  1. Where they are on any particular object
  2. How far away from the viewer they are
  3. Interaction with other objects

OK so lets say we have this box here 

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and if I add in interaction with other objects :

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Another thing I like to do is use my lines to imply ambient occlusion-

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-most noticeably in these three areas in this drawing although there’s a bit of it scattered around in other places as well. If you need an explanation of ambient occlusion I recommend looking up “ambient occlusion in art” so that you don’t get a bunch of things about 3d rendering. This ties back into the loose color explanation I gave a little bit ago as well as it’s something you have to keep in mind while painting 

You can see how I applied the principles I used on the box on a more detailed drawing here too by the way


Lastly, a lot of artists at some point along the way start thinking that making their lines thicker makes them better. This is completely false, it is an illusion, you are deceiving yourself. What you’re actually doing by having all your lines be super thick is masking your inability to make the lines you actually want to make, since it’s easier to place large lines due to the fact that they are large, they fill the space your ideal line would be if that makes sense. 

A good exercise to see if this is something you’re doing beyond it being a style would be to try and draw the same thing twice, once with very thick lines and once with really really thin ones and see if you can make the thin one look good 


So yeah, those are just some things off the top of my head that I keep in mind while doing lines, there’s more stuff like shapes and volumes etc. but like the color thing I can’t do a complete write up on all of that it would take forever and I don’t trust myself to explain it properly. 

Once again this isn’t a straight up tutorial, I advise looking up what other, better artists have to say about the things I mentioned, this is more so you have a jumping off point and you’re not going in blind