I am about to draw a very different costume from the one the model has sent to me, based on a later conversation between us. I want you to be able to see how that first series of lines inspired the more certain, detail-oriented lines over top of them. To start with, I have left the under-drawing visible here in a shade of red. I am about to explain this part too, piece by piece. Looks like a lot happened there, right? Don’t panic. Now I am ready to begin making this tangle of lines into something resembling a human. Are the elements in balance? On a whim, I add the suggestion of a little dragon border here to balance out the blockiness of the text. 2-Compositionįor me, this means where everything is going to be placed in this drawing to make it look aesthetically pleasing to the viewer, and draw attention to the important bits (face and hands, in this case). How the head is turned (a subtly menacing down-turn in this case), and where the features rest on the face in relation to one another. The relative size of the shoulders and arms. I want to know the size of the head in relation to the torso. Here are some things I am choosing to place as reference points for the drawing that I am about to do over top of it: 1-Proportional reference
In fact, breaking from anatomic correctness is sometimes necessary to make an action pose look more “real” to prospective viewers! Now on to my thought process for the under-drawing itself. Rounder, more dynamic lines (of the kind you find in quick gesture drawings) make characters look more alive, even if they are not 100% anatomically correct. 2- Tracing from photos indiscriminately, even when done with a good eye for anatomy, will always make your figures look stiffer. A selfie taken by hand will always have especially distorted proportions. Some reasons why I will not (and do not advise) tracing directly over photographs when drawing characters, but rather doing an under-drawing, and working off of that instead: 1- A camera lens will always distort proportions. I am about to combine these elements with a bit of artistic license to create something that looks very different.
I will not be sharing them for privacy reasons, but suffice to say- they have provided me with the suggestion of a pose, the make of the sword, and the model’s proportions and facial features as reference material. At this stage, I’ve received several selfies from the model in partial costume.
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